#there WILL be elvish history!!! on feanor's own fucking terms!!!!
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#when thinking abt f毛anor as devoted to craft one must not forget the tengwar! #writing preserves oral speech the same way the silmarils preserve the light of the trees! #in a society where the trees are not expected to die and everyone remembers everything forever this seems extremely unnecessary! #UNLESS you are the only guy ever who has experienced your mother Dying and then. i don鈥檛 want to say being overwritten but there鈥檚 def some #sort of erasure of memory going on there #i don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 a coincidence either that parallel to tengwar as able to create a written record miriel ends up Preserving Memory via the #visual record of weaving. but also if i think too hard abt text/textile stuff i鈥檒l explode #anyway. which member of this family invented darkroom photography. i need to know!!! - @catilinas
Suppose: Feanor grows up devoted to mastering his artistry and his craft not just because it鈥檚 an inherently Noldorin thing to be an artist/creator but because to him it鈥檚 an inherently Miriel thing. The more elevated his craft becomes, the closer he feels he is to his mother. When the Silmarils are stolen, the theft compounds not only the murder of Feanor鈥檚 father, but inflicts a second loss of his mother, and the Valar鈥攐f course鈥攔ealize none of this. But Melkor did.
#TATE HAVE YOU READ DIALUX'S MIRIELFIC OF ALL TIME#'i remember the time we knew we were free'#it's literally about this.#like all of this#my other thought about textile is that sarati (alphabet by r煤mil who invented literacy in valinor) is written from top to bottom#so when feanor made the tengwar which is written horizontally... that's like noldor vs. vaire the weaver#there WILL be elvish history!!! on feanor's own fucking terms!!!!#Matter of Beleriand here we go!!!!! those mataphysical looms in mandos arent real and can't hurt you#anyway#meta#fave
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#my other thought about textile is that sarati is written from top to bottom #so when feanor made the tengwar which is written horizontally... that's like noldor vs. vaire the weaver #there WILL be elvish history!!! on feanor's own fucking terms!!!! those mataphysical looms in mandos arent real and can't hurt you
guess who just learned about the etymology of subtle a year after saying this
#:(#f(eanor) in the text(ile)#and of course the word subtle returns right before the sentence that lets us know he created the silmarils#the matter of song#song (light) (doom) locked in matter#the making of the tengwar 'in his youth' was a preliminary study for the silmarils
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