#tolkien ladies

[jmoonjones]

Luthien 💜

Rereading Beren and Luthien for the thousandth time and just 💖

[dialux]

Like I REALLY get why people have a certain read of the Feanorian wives but also:

A) it's so intensely interesting to me when people are quasi-normal in peacetime but the moment stress is placed upon a relationship their priorities are really fucking clear, and I love to think the famed Feanorian ruthlessness is something that freaks out quite a few of the wives that haven't fully drunk the kool-aid.

B) when you have a little more distance from a situation/trauma you're more likely to be rational about AND to think someone who's closer to the trauma is acting irrationally. Which is literally the whole of the Feanorian/Fingolfinian dynamic in a nutshell: everyone is acting irrationally! Everyone has centuries if not millennia worth of alliances and agreements and history that inform their next approach to a problem! But if you're standing outside of that thicket you're left wondering: what the actual fuck is wrong with these people.

C) a bit more of a meta textual point but the point of the Feanorians is that they're alone. They drive off everyone over the course of the Silm. They break their oaths and they break the laws and they break all bounds of morality. They are left by the end of the First Age with only two of a once proud family: no servants left, no friends, no family, just Maedhros and Maglor. And having those warning signs be there from the beginning? Fantastic. The wives leave, following Nerdanel, and the sons leave, following Feanor. It's the circle of life (abuse) baby!

D) toying with the idea of women as the torchbearers of cultural heritage is in fact an interesting tension: and I just flat out think these women saying that's it we can't and don't want to participate in this farce (because we know it's a farce and a tragedy and how it will end) fucks really hard! They say No and Not like this and Even if I thought you were right I do not think it is worth it. All of which are worthwhile views to be had, and, perhaps more importantly, views that aren't discussed or even mentioned in the actual books.

[ladysparrow01]

I was thinking about how many names J.R.R. Tolkien has/went by. And then I got curious about what people most often call him. For myself, I flip flop between Tolkien and The Professor.

[verkomy]

I promise...

[shurikthereject]

I read Not The Same Hobbit by withatwistedlyre on ao3 and couldn't stop thinking about ranger Bilbo i had to draw him. I was heavily inspired by Aragorns outfit and hair while designing him and I'm honestly loving how Bilbo looks in the ultra-non-hobbitish clothes. While reading the fic, I started to imagine what Yavanna would look like and decided to give it a go. Her hair is supposed to be a willow tree but leaves are very hard to draw so its not obvious lol. I love the idea of The Valar being absolutely huge so Bilbo here is experiencing a "a giant woman!" moment.

Let me know if you guys would prefer to see more sketches (which are more frequent) or more finished works! It really helps me out with organizing!!

[mrkida-art]

The children of Thráin II; Thorin, Frerin and Dís.

[idontcarecarebear]

Oh, it breaks my heart when I remember that these two died for a home they only heard about in stories that their mother and Uncle probably told them at night before bedtime or in class with Balin.

It was only their home for a few days, but they will be buried there forever.

[gandalf-the-fool]

[fistfuloflightning]

Maglor can be a gentleman when he wants to be…

another Maglor/Luthien doodle

[autistook]

[hallbrand]

THE RINGS OF POWERS LADIES APPRECIATION ↳ Day 2 —  Favorite dynamic: Galadriel and Míriel

I know what it is to be the only one, the only one who sees, the only one who knows. Perhaps neither of use have to bear that burden alone any longer.

[theloopweaver]

The British literary crossover we didn’t know we needed.

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[dialux]

would you mind explaining your Indis headcanon of how she makes Feanor hate her?

I don't think it was very hard for her, actually? I think kids-- particularly possessive and defensive kids-- tend to be primed to dislike people that walk into what they define as their space, and unless that transition is handled with a lot of grace and care (which I don't actually think Finwe is capable of!) it can very easily become a) traumatic and b) unacceptable to the kid. And this was entirely Finwe's responsibility, but he was either incapable or unwilling to do what needed to be done in that respect.

Now, that's all canon. What's my approach to this is that Indis saw the path that they were going down-- i.e., one where Feanor would never accept her or her children-- and assessed her options: a) walk away from Finwe, which she and Finwe don't want; b) stay and try to make nice with Feanor, even though Feanor will never reconcile with her because Finwe has to be the one that actually kicks off that process; c) stay neutral with Feanor, because it's a dozen different kinds of awkward; or d) piss Feanor off, because if he's anything like his mother, the anger will serve as both shield and inspiration against a world in which Feanor is already disadvantaged/discriminated against.

And Indis has the clarity of thought to choose (d) because it is the only way she can help Feanor, even if it's the harder choice, even if it's the crueler choice: in this story, in fact, she's perhaps the only adult in Feanor's life that chooses to help him in a way that costs her something. Miriel, of course, chooses to stay in Mandos despite knowing elven children need extensive parental support; Finwe chooses to marry Indis and not address Feanor's wide-ranging abandonment, inferiority, and guilt complexes despite ostensibly having the most exposure to said complexes. Indis chooses (d) despite knowing it will have a negative impact on her own reputation and potential complications in the future.

It's also more meaningful, imo, to give Indis that agency and the choice in tanking her relationship with Feanor. His hatred of Indis/Indis' children is centered not only in nebulous fears and anxieties, but the very real understanding that he and Indis don't like each other and never will, and her children are extensions of Indis herself; he cannot fathom being friendly to them. It destroyed continents and burned cities to the ground, that choice and that hate, but it was still a choice, and not a simple inevitable slide downhill into wrack and ruin.

[nynevefromthelake]

Back to six fanarts! Lady Haleth

@randomnue

[y97dgu]

as soon as i saw the barbie trailer mugshot meme i knew... these two would be a good fit

[mrkida-art]

Dís argues with her father, King Thráin

Alternative title: Dís fucks around and finds out