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The Sundering of the Elves

"The Silmarillion" - J.R.R. Tolkien

[shrikeseams]

Today's girl genius has raised a critical question in my brain:

What does the beleriand black market and contraband trade look like?

[shrikeseams]

Yesss, I love bitterness in Nerdanel.

Makalaure entered the quiet, oft-abandoned green drawing room on the far side of their palace in Tirion intending to quickly exit through the opposite door.

Halfway into the room, though, his feet drew to a stop as he saw a familiar, light head bent over the desk. Was this where Tyelkormo had been hiding all day? His brother had startled when he paused and turned around to glare at him. He looked ever so slightly guilty.

“What are you doing?” Macalaure said with a grin, shifting his intentions and striding over. He bent over the desk to try to get a look but Tyelkormo was fast.

He immediately dropped his quill with a ‘clack’, causing ink to splatter everywhere, and snatched up the papers, pulling them to his chest.

“Ah, your shirt,” Makalaure said, standing back up. With ink that fresh, he could stain the front of the whole damn thing!

Tyelkormo was unmoved, though, perhaps because- now that Makalaure studied him- he was in an undershirt, one so roughspun it could only be one of the ones he made for himself while with the Hunt of Orome. He continued to petulantly glare, clutching his papers close, as the undried ink no doubt ran. Makalaure raised an incredulous eyebrow.

His little brother looked away as he answered.

“The Scriptures of Orome are not meant to be written,” he said, shame and guilt radiating from him, but Makalaure just smiled again, delighted.

“And yet you write them,” he breathed out, smirking.

Tyelkormo had been so staid in the rules of his Vala recently! And mind you, the laws of one such as the Lord of the Hunt were more strange and permissive and at odds with Elven society than, say, Varda’s, but still… To see his wild little brother so throughly reined in- a feat that not even their father and mother had ever been able to accomplish- after just one year in the Vala’s train was galling.

Downright concerning, in some ways, though Nelyo cautioned him to just leave Tyelkormo be. He’s figuring things out for himself, Maitimo had said.

Which Makalaure might have been more sympathetic to, had be not spent the two years prior to this one getting non-stop accounts from every family member about how Tyelkormo had all but set fire to Tirion in his bad behavior while trapped at the University. He’d promised father he’d complete a course of study before abandoning all that Elven hands had learned and made for a Vala’s hearth. He didn’t make it past the third semester.

Now, his little brother looked positively quelled as he cringed away from him and from his own illicit papers.

“Not for anyone to see,” he muttered, “just for my purposes.”

“And what are those purposes?”

He intentionally made his voice slightly suggestive just to make Turko turn crimson.

“Study,” he spat, “and reference, and, yes, appreciation, but not like that, you fucking asshole.”

Makalaure snickered and waved his anger away, saying, “Yes, yes, I believe you. By Eru do I believe you. But, Turko! What a wonderful discovery! You are a Noldo yet, you are Father’s son yet. Committing blasphemy to eek out just a bit more knowledge.”

That made Tyelkormo’s face pull uncomfortably, and Makalaure watched. He truly looked chastised, and almost fearful. As of being Father’s son was bad thing. What were these acolytes telling him?

Makalaure reached out and thumbed at his little brother’s nose, trying to wipe that serious look off his face. It worked long enough that he was able to turn away and start to say, “Well, what can you expect? We spent so much time writing out poems and philosophical tracts and translations for our recitation lessons, I think it’s quite ingrained in us to want to transliterate into Tengwar whatever we are trying to understand.”

Makalaure collapsed upon the couch, hand cradled in his palm as he leaned on the arm.

“You know, I had a similar issue? My classmates at Alqualonde would mock me for attempting to notate every piece of music we made, even the free and spontaneous ones. I couldn’t help it! I see everything in terms of ink and parchment.”

And he watched as Tyelkormo let out a long but quiet breath of relief.

“Exactly,” he said. “I do understand the point and the importance of maintaining our traditions orally, but I can’t help but think that records are necessary. Communal debate over the scriptures is one thing, and I think I am quite eloquent there-“ Of that, Macalaure had no doubt, Tyelkormo was uniquely skilled at open argument and debate.

He was suddenly hit with the desire to see his brother debate the other Acolytes of Orome on their scripture, and despaired that the Vala of the Hunt kept his practices more secretive than most.

“-but I was trained in annotation. I often wish I could sit and work through my thoughts myself with a copy of the text. But, ah, but Tilion would laugh at me to even here me speak. Everything comes back to ‘text’ in the House of Feanaro.”

“There’s nothing wrong with text,” Makalaure argued. He’d spent quite a lot of his career dedicated to text! When he was studying in Valmar, he set himself to transcribing songs and stories no one else could seem bothered to want to save and preserve and disseminate to a wider populace. Ingwe’s court laughed at him good-naturedly as well, poking fun at the oddities of Feanaro and his sons.

Another oddity, how the teasing could be meant so gently and infuriate Makalaure so.

Most did not understand why the House of Feanaro cared so for preservation, and the ones who did understand? They were dismissive and cruel.

Tyelkormo was still obviously fighting with himself over this, while Makalaure had made peace with it long ago. Naturally. He had only just recently left their father’s house, and seen that the world and it’s peoples were bigger than their father. A hard thing to remember, to be sure, so large was the presence Feanaro occupied without even trying.

Makalaure knew how overwhelming that could be. He was many years graduated from the Alqualonde Music Academy, but he still remembered how frightening and intimidating that was. Tyelkormo was still in the thick of it.

He hadn’t yet reconciled that while the world was large and Feanaro was- wonder upon wonders- not the master of everything, he also wasn’t wrong about everything, either. While there need not be infinite pride in being his son, there was no shame either.

“Turko,” Makalaure said with a whistle in his voice, and his brother looked up from the still-hidden pages he was frowning at. “The Hunt of Orome, you come from a different… academic tradition than most of them. That’s a good thing, and I believe Your Lord would agree. He encourages debate of his scriptures in his hall, does He? Well, perhaps spend this holiday transcribing your scriptures, and making your annotations, and maybe make the manuscript illuminated. I know you have the skills, Mother ensured that. Present your papers to him. Make your argument. If his rebuttal is good, well, you have an answer to the quandary that torments you. If your argument is better, He will acknowledge that. Be bold, Turkafinwe!”

And that made Tyelkormo laugh. Makalaure considered that a success.

“I’m told I’m bold enough already,” he snorted, rolling his eyes. “Do you know how many fights I have had to have in Father’s honor? They all think because they know his tale, name, and a bastardized version of his beliefs, they can say whatever they want!”

“They are fools, and they deserve to be hit,” Makalaure sniffed. He’d never gotten into a physical confrontation- his touch was gentler than Tyelkormo’s- but there had been many a biting song or poem written because of this exact thing.

No one insulted their loving, vexing, genius, foolish father correctly.

“Be bold, be bolder,” Makalaure told his little brother, rising from his seat. “You are the son of Curufinwe Feanaro, nothing can or should quell you. I will not ask to look at your scriptures, so, by Eru, write them. Study them. This is the path you have chosen, do walk it as Turkafinwe Tyelkormo. Hasty and brash and stupid and self-assured, and very brave.”

He made sure to flick Turko’s forehead on his way out.

At his back, he was happy to hear the quill be picked back up and also, “ah, shit, my shirt.”

[hirazuki]

Choose Your Own Adventure: Middle Earth Edition, part 2.

It is the year 400 of the First Age. Three hundred and forty years have passed since the Siege of Angband begun; one hundred and forty years, since a dragon was last sighted. There are scattered skirmishes with orcs, especially in the north of the continent, but these are more raids than proper battles, and the lands and realms of Beleriand have prospered in the wake of this watchful peace.

[*i.e. Avari, but they wouldn't call themselves that. Aryador is the name given to Hithlum in earlier writings, and -- while it's the name of that region in the language of Men -- according to the Gnomish Lexicon, it's an Ilkorin/Umanyar word, so I think it would probably be more likely to be used by Avari to refer to their land than the Quenya or Sindarin names you know, in the absence of knowing anything concrete about Avarin language; but also I just prefer it because I think it's prettier ^^]

[**"Man" refers to race, not gender, just to be clear!]

(Part 1 is here)

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Elven perfectionism clashes?

I have this (simplified I know) headcanon that one of the cultural whiplash moments between Noldorin exiles and the Moriquendi is their perceptions of perfection.

Because the Noldor in Aman live in a world full of perfection, where symmetry and uniformity are a sign of the Valar, and therefore holy. Whether they are pro or anti Valar, I do think this would really seep into conciousness.

The Moriquendi, on the other hand, develop in Middle Earth surrounded by natural things which, though created by Yavannah, are most definitely not ordered. In fact, something overly ordered, symmetrical, uniform is not only really damn weird, it's actually more associated with Melkor. Therefore, almost nothing created by Moriquendi craftspeople is totally perfect; either it's designed to follow nature and therefore is asymmetrical anyway, or there will always be an intentional flaw or reversed pattern or something somewhere.

So, many Noldor think that the Moriquendi are either lazy, unskilled or lacking attention to detail or imagination. Whereas, to many Moriquendi, creations by the Noldor have a definite 'Slenderman' sort of feel.

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[tolkien-feels]

oh I love your rotations tonight

consider: elven kinda-adoptions. sometimes you'll just find a friend of your kid's fits really well into your family, so you borrow them for a few days. it's common enough practice, especially among the elves of valinor, for even a not-fully-grown elf to stay over with a friend's parents for a long time; most homes have plenty of rooms to accommodate all sorts of guests.

for ease of language, the hosting parents will fairly often just refer to all of the children as their own while they're over; they're not going to replace their biological parents, of course, but they're still parenting the children.

now think about fëanor and mahtan

It's always delightful to have rotations approved by you, ngl!

My mind is going places and my first thought was Thingol who refers to Turin as a son but always in the context of "unless Hurin shows up to reclaim him" and now I'm just imagining like... Maybe this was a thing even before the Long Journey, but the customs diverge and in Aman, the understanding tends to be "I'm borrowing your kid for Enrichment for a few days :3" while in Beleriand it's much more frequent for the situation to be "I'm taking this child for my own while their parents are off on a dangerous journey/injured/captured/dead." That would be very interesting, I think, if during the First Age Amanyar and Umanyar come to realize just how much of an impact peace or danger make to even shared customs.

Anyway yeah Feanor and Mahtan, this is already pretty much how I headcanon them, this might as well happen. It's extra interesting because Feanor is, if not 100% an adult, very close to it. I wonder what kind of expectation there would be then. Maybe in Aman, an adult borrowed child is expected to be taught things (as well as just generally hang out, of course)? On Middle-earth, it might still be "Okay this child is an adult but I would very much like for them to Not Die so please ensure That"? Depends on how peaceful Middle-earth is at the moment, I guess.

This tangent is brought to you by: Finrod will not admit to this under torture because it would make things very awkward for Beren, but a non-insignificant part of his brain is very much conceptualizing the Quest as "I have borrowed Barahir's adult child to ensure his safety for a little while."

Also Celeborn and Elrond. You know I have to bring them up.

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THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS OF THE SILMARILLION. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE IT’S SO MUCH TO THROW AT YOU WHEN YOU’RE ONLY LIKE A FIFTH OF THE WAY THROUGH THE BOOK.  AS IF ALL THE OTHER STUFF WASN’T SO MUCH ALREADY, NOW YOU HAVE THE SUNDERING OF THE ELVES AND THEY’RE SPLIT INTO MULTIPLE GROUPS WITH A BUNCH OF NEW NAMES TO THROW AT YOU. I love that it’s fairly easy to keep track of the original three groups of Elves--the Vanyar, the Noldor, and the Teleri--like, okay the Vanyar are the Teachers Pet Elves, the Noldor are the exciting ones because they’re going to make all the cool stuff and also have the really batshit ones, and the Teleri are the hippie ones who love to sit by the sea and sing and mostly their building is focused on boats.  (That’s going to be important later.) Then you’ve got the Avari, the ones who were like, “No thanks, we’re not leaving Middle-Earth, we’ll see you in about 3,000 years from now, bye.” Okay but now, once the Teleri get to Aman, they call themselves the Falmari, but these are specifically only the Teleri Elves that went to Aman. All of the above are a type of Elf called Calaquendi (or High Elves), basically any Elf who went to Aman and saw the light of the Two Trees.  They called any Elf who had not been to Aman, the Umanyar. And then the Calaquendi called the Umanyar + the Avari as Moriquendi, because they were all Elves who had not seen the light of the Two Trees. But then you have the Teleri that didn’t go to Aman (because Thingol was so busy in the woods lost in rapture staring at Melian, I don’t blame you, my dude, hard same) who wanted to go, who accepted the invitation, but lingered because they weren’t going to go without their king, and called themselves Eglath.  Eventually they decided to stay and were the Sindar. Then you’ve got the Teleri Elves that accepted the invitation but decided to not go any further once the main group got to the Misty Mountains and those were called the Nandor. The Silvan Elves came about from the Nandorin Elves, the ones who never got past the Misty Mountains.  Then you have the Laiquendi (Laegrim), the Nandor who later came further west and joined Thingol’s kingdom. AND I LOVE ALL OF THIS BECAUSE IT’S THROWN AT YOU WHILE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO ANY OF THESE PEOPLE ARE, YOU DON’T KNOW WHO INGWE OR FINWE OR ELWE ARE OR WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT THEM. IT’S JUST SO MUCH AND IT EXPECTS YOU TO READ THROUGH ALL THOSE NAMES AND TRY TO PARSE IT AND I LOVE IT BECAUSE YOU REALLY HAVE TO REREAD IT LIKE THREE TIMES BEFORE IT STARTS TO STICK, LIKE, YES, THIS IS THE IMPOSSIBLY HIGH LEARNING CURVE TO UNDERSTANDING TOLKIEN THAT I LOVE.

[elrondsscribe]

So I wanna say more about Elves as benders

because you know I’m trash and I have to, right?

Anyways, the more I think about the Tolkien mythos, the more fascinated I am with their bending.

So we have the Vanyar, who are apparently the clan who are closest to the Valar in general, but to Manwe (and Varda) in specific: Manwe, Lord of the Breath of Arda; Manwe, friend of birds. They were the ones originally most eager to get to Aman in the first place; they’re the ones who live closest to the Holy Mountain of Taniquetil. Doesn’t airbending seem like a perfect fit for them?

Then there are the Noldor. Can anyone say “fire, blood, and doom”? They were the ones who ‘fell’ in any sense of the word; they were the ones who rebelled, the ones who were Kinslayers. They seem to be closest to Aule, who was apparently the most like Melkor - you know, the one who envied the power of the Flame Imperishable? Certain standout Noldor like Feanor and Maedhros get called ‘fiery’ all the time in-text. Firebending would barely externalize this.

The Teleri are reportedly closest to Ulmo, Lord of the Waters, and to Osse and Uinen. They make the boats and do the sailing. Blah blah blah waterbending.

The Umanyar (particularly the Sindar and Nandor) never finished the journey to Aman because either they loved Middle-Earth so much or because they loved their missing king so much that they refused to leave. If that doesn’t say ‘earthbender’ I don’t know what does! And there’d definitely be the most diversity among these benders, because there’s so much diversity among those Elves.

But okay: I’ve already said as much earlier. Here’s where I started to run wild with it:

Associating lightning with firebending in ATLA is something that has a lot to do with Eastern philosophy; but in Western pantheons (I’m thinking specifically of Norse and Greek myth), lightning belongs to the sky god, making it the domain of Manwe (and therefore Elven airbenders).

Because love of the earth in Tolkien’s works is so bound up caring for plant life (especially trees), I think it’s pretty obvious that anything like plantbending would be the domain of Yavanna and Melian, and of Elven earthbenders.

Metalbending is a tricky one. Because of all the Elves it’s typically the Noldor who do the smithcraft; and it very much fits with the association between fire and forging and Aule. I figure that the Noldor manipulate metal with heat ... and probably also come up with some pretty sick inventions along the way!

But then, what are all the metals at all if not certain forms of mined, refined earth? If the Sindar/Nandor/whoever manipulated metal, they’d bend the metal itself, directly. But I also figure that many of them aren’t all that interested in metal in the first place.

Another thing about the Tolkienverse and firebending: the Flame Imperishable seems to stand for the mysterious creative power - the Force, if you will - underpinning all life in Ea. If there were any such thing as ‘true’ firebending, it would be tapping back into that. And at its most corrupted, someone could use firebending to steal another creature’s life force from them.

And as for bloodbending - well, I think the healing possibilities of bloodbending would be a lot more immediately evident to the Teleri than they were in ATLA. I wouldn’t be surprised if they thought of bending blood primarily as a healing art!

(One thing I’m still working out is the connection between Ulmo and music, and what that might mean for waterbending Teleri.)

Now in ATLA, there were creatures associated with the original bending arts: badgermoles for earth, dragons for fire, sky bisons for air, moon-and-ocean for water. I’d be surprised if it worked like that in the Tolkienverse, just because of how I imagine divine power would be linked to the bending arts. It just feels so natural to attach Yavanna to earth, Aule to fire, Manwe to air, and Ulmo to water - it all fits so perfectly.

It’s like the Tolkienverse Elves and the ATLA bending arts were built for this.

[simaethae]

quendi and eldar

so i finally got around to reading the Quendi and Eldar section of HoME XI and it was interesting enough that I felt like it was worthwhile writing up notes! no particular coherency or structure here, I’m just pulling out bits I like (but sparing you guys the sections on the evolution of various dialects from Primitive Quendian/Common Eldarin since it doesn’t extract well) ^_^

Hence Hekelmar and Hekeldamar [“Home of the Forsaken”], the name in the languages of the loremasters of Aman for Beleriand. It was thought of as a long shoreland beside the sea (cf. Eglamar under Sindarin below).

This is weird. Surely the Noldor…. remember crossing Beleriand? I can only think that maybe “thought of” means like, “in the popular imagination, the Elves left behind in Beleriand are always staring sadly out from the western shore, singing sad songs” or something like that?

As a prefix the form usually used was ava-, the force of which can be observed in avaquétima ‘not to be said, that must not be said’, avanyárima ‘not to be told or related’ as contrasted with úquétima ‘unspeakable’, that is, ‘impossible to say, put into words, or unpronounceable’, únyárima ‘impossible to recount’, sc. because all the facts are not known, or the tale is too long. Compare also Avamanyar ‘those who did not go to Aman, because they would not’ (an equivalent of Avari) with Úamanyar ‘those who did not in the event reach Aman’ (an equivalent of Hekeldi).

Mostly I just think this is neat. I’m enjoying all these careful distinctions between Amanyar and Umanyar and Avari, though.

In the use of the Exiles Quenya naturally came to mean the language of the Ñoldor, developed in Aman, as distinct from other tongues, whether Elvish or not. But the Ñoldor did not forget its connexion with the old word Quendi, and still regarded the name as implying ‘Elvish’, that is the chief Elvish tongue, the noblest, and the one most nearly preserving the ancient character of Elvish speech.

Of course not.

The Teleri had little interest in linguistic lore, which they left to the Ñoldor. They did not regard their language as a ‘dialect’ of Quenya, but called it Lindarin or Lindalambe.

I’m really enjoying how much the Teleri just keep Doing Their Own Thing.

The Elves of Beleriand were isolated, without contact with any other people, Elvish or of other kind; and they were all of one clan and language: Telerin (or Lindarin). Their own language was the only one they ever heard, and they needed no word to distinguish it, nor to distinguish themselves.

[…] By the Sindar anyone dwelling outside Beleriand, or entering their realm from outside, was called a Morben [“Dark-elf”, “Dark-person”]….The Avari thus remained the chief examples of Moerbin. Any individual Avar who joined with or was admitted among the Sindar (it rarely happened) became a Calben [“Light-elf”]; but the Avari in general remained secretive, hostile to the Eldar, and untrustworthy; and they dwelt in hidden places in the deeper woods, or in caves.

Sindarin isolationist paranoia is so charmingly fucked-up. <3 “We’re not going to let you into Doriath, stay away from us,” “the Avari are so secretive and hostile wow”. Wowwww.

But the form Golodh seems to have been phonetically unpleasant to the Ñoldor. The name was, moreover, chiefly used by those who wished to mark the difference between the Ñoldor and the Sindar, and to ignore the dwelling of the Ñoldor in Aman which might give them a claim to superiority.

I’m not copying out the purely linguistic bits but this whole section is basically a 50:50 ratio of linguistics to terse notes about Elves sneering at each other. This is turning out to be a really worthwhile read.

The Ñoldor indeed asserted that most of the ‘Teleri’ were at heart Avari, and that only the Eglain [Círdan’s people] really regretted being left in Beleriand.

Love you Noldor never stop <3

The first Avari that the Eldar met again in Beleriand seem to have claimed to be Tatyar, who acknowledged their kinship with the Exiles, though there is no record of their actually using the name Ñoldo in any recognizable Avarin form. They were actually unfriendly to the Ñoldor, and jealous of their more exalted kin, whom they accused of arrogance.

1.      That’s super interesting that the Avari in Beleriand were more closely related to the Noldor than the Sindar! I love an excuse for some nice complicated cultural tensions.

2.      Wait, this implies Eöl’s one of the Tatyarin Avari. Eöl is obviously Tatyar. Godddd.

This ill-feeling descended in part from the bitterness of the Debate before the March of the Eldar began, and was no doubt later increased by the machinations of Morgoth; but it also throws some light upon the temperament of the Ñoldor in general, and Fëanor in particular. Indeed the Teleri on their side asserted that most of the Ñoldor in Aman itself were in heart Avari, and returned to Middle-earth when they discovered their mistake; they needed room to quarrel in.

a;fn;gngn <333333

For in contrast the Lindarin elements in the western Avari were friendly to the Eldar, and willing to learn from them; and so close was the feeling of kinship between the remnants of the Sindar, the Nandor, and the Lindarin Avari, that later in Eriador and the Vale of Anduin they often became merged together.

Lothlórien!! Okay, not just Lothlorien, but it’s so interesting and logical for Galadriel to end up there – someone both Lindarin and Noldorin (and I wonder if that would have been read at all as Tatyarin? but then she’s a little Vanyarin too) married to a Sindarin husband. But I always love seeing reiterated that – okay, they mingle, but the Umanyar are not homogenous any more than the Amanyar <3

In [Sindarin] the word gûl (equivalent of Q ñóle) had less laudatory associations, being used mostly of secret knowledge, especially such as possessed by artificers who made wonderful things; and the word became further darkened by its frequent use in the compound morgul ‘black arts’, applied to the delusory or perilous arts and knowledge derived from Morgoth. Those indeed among the Sindar who were unfriendly to the Ñoldor attributed their supremacy in the arts and lore to their learning from Melkor-Morgoth.

I love this kind of free-associatory etymological slander. Also as always the double-edged and dangerous nature of technology and lore.

This name they first applied to the Nandor that came into Eastern Beleriand; but this people still called themselves by the old clan-name *Lindai, which had at that time taken the form Lindi in their tongue….These names were however later replaced among the Sindar by the name ‘Green-elves’, at least as far as the inhabitants of Ossiriand were concerned; for they withdrew themselves and took as little part in the strife with Morgoth as they could.

Just noting this to help me keep track of the whole Teleri-Lindai / Nandor-Lindi-Laegrim…. thing.

The Valar, therefore, learned Quenya by their own choice, for pleasure as well as for communication; and it seems clear that they preferred that the Eldar should make new words of their own style, or should translate the meanings of names into fair Eldarin forms, rather than [that] they should retain the Valarin words or adapt them to Quenya (a process that in most cases did justice to neither tongue).

I’d actually like to know more about Valarin but this is still really cute.

No Elf of any kind ever sided with Morgoth of free will, though under torture or the stress of great fear, or deluded by lies, they might obey his commands…The ‘Dark-elves’, however, often were hostile, and even treacherous, in their dealings with the Sindar and Ñoldor; and if they fought, as they did when themselves assailed by the Orcs, they never took any open part in the war on the side of the Celbin. They were, it seems, filled with an inherited bitterness against the Eldar, whom they regarded as deserters of their kin, and in Beleriand this feeling was increased by envy (especially of the Amanyar) and by resentment of their lordliness.

I normally try not to take the “unreliable narrator” thing too far but I have to wonder from whose perspective this is being written. The “deserters of their kin” thing is an interesting snippet of the Avari’s own perspective, though.

Eöl was a Mornedhel, and is said to have belonged to the Second Clan

CALLED IT.

It is said also that the folk of the North were clad much in grey, especially after the return of Morgoth when secrecy became needed; and the Mithrim had an art of weaving a grey cloth that made its wearers almost invisible in shadowy places or in a stony land.

The Elven-cloaks Galadriel weaves for the Fellowship! I wonder if she learned it directly from the Mithrim or if it was a more indirect transmission?

[shrikeseams]

I don't actually want to do a tumblr poll bracket. But if I did, it would be to determine the elf most likely to refuse the call of Mandos.

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Bukti Covid 19 Masih Ada, Bhabinkamtibmas Himbau Warga Tetap Patuhi Protokol Kesehatan

Bukti Covid 19 Masih Ada, Bhabinkamtibmas Himbau Warga Tetap Patuhi Protokol Kesehatan

Karangasem – Bhabinkamtibmas Desa Ababi Aipda I Made Oktarisa Sindunata SH. melakukan  pemantauan dan pengamanan pemakaman jenasah secara protokol kesehatan  di Setra Umanyar Desa Ababi, Kecamatan Abang, Kabupaten Karangasem, Minggu 30/10/22 Pemakaman secara protokol kesehatan dilakukan terhadap  jenazah seorang warga yang meninggal dunia akibat dari Covid-19 di Banjar Dinas Umanyar, Desa Ababi,…

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hot take: I'm a pro-Umanyar sexually-liberated Lúthien creepy faerie land Doriathcore DaeMags disaster theatre kids love affair Silmarillion fan.

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Wawali Arya Wibawa Pimpin Apel Gelar Pasukan Posko Angkutan Nataru dan Denfest 2023

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, DENPASAR - Wakil Wali Kota Denpasar, I Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa, pimpim Apel Gelar Pasukan Posko Terpadu Angkutan Natal 2023, dan Tahun Baru 2024 (Nataru) serta Denpasar Festival (Denfest) 2023, Selasa (19/12/2023) bertempat di Terminal Ubung, Kecamatan Denpasar Utara. Pelaksanaan Apel Nataru dan Denfest 2023 melibatkan Tim Gabungan dari unsur TNI/Polri, Satpol PP, Dinas Perhubungan Kota Denpasar, BPBD, Dinas Kesehatan, Jasa Raharja, Organda serta instansi terkait lainnya. Apel ini sebagai persiapan seluruh Tim Gabungan Denpasar dalam Tim Posko Terpadu Angkutan Nataru 2024, serta Denfest 2023 yang aman, nyaman, tertib, teratur dan selamat. Wawali Arya Wibawa dalam sambutannya mengatakan, Kota Denpasar merupakan pusat kegiatan aktivitas masyarakat yang sangat padat dengan mobilitas yang tinggi baik kegiatan perdagangan, pendidikan, industri, pariwisata, maupun pemerintahan. "Antisipasi bersama dari tim gabungan Denpasar dalam periode Nataru animo pergerakan masyarakat menuju dan keluar Kota Denpasar akan semakin meningkat, dikarenakan liburan akhir tahun Kota Denpasar menjadi salah satu obyek kunjungan para wisatawan domestik maupun mancanegara," ujar Arya Wibawa. Lebih lanjut Arya Wibawa menyampaikan, bahwa Pemerintah Kota Denpasar juga secara rutin setiap akhir tahun melaksanakan kegiatan Denfest. Event yang berlangsung dari tanggal 22- 25 desember 2023 untuk memberikan wadah kepada masyarakat dalam menumbuhkan kreatifitas dan membangun Kota Denpasar. Arya Wibawa juga mengharapkan dalam pelaksanaan posko terpadu agar selalu membangun kebersamaan, koordinasi dan sinergisitas untuk memberikan jaminan keamanan, keselamatan, ketertiban dan kelancaran lalu lintas serta kenyamanan. Dalam hajatan Denfest tim juga dapat memberikan informasi kepada masyarakat terkait pengalihan arus lalu lintas hingga menginformasikan zonasi parkir. "Dengan jiwa Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, menyama braya, gotong royong dan kolaborasi yang berlandaskan Tri Hita Karana mari kita sukseskan pelayanan Nataru dan Denfest 2023,” imbuhnya. Sementara Kepala Dinas Perhubungan Kota Denpasar, I Ketut Sriawan mengatakan, pelaksanaan Posko Terpadu ini digelar 19 Desember hingga 3 Januari 2024. Tim Gabungan  melakukan atensi Nataru keramaian dibeberapa titik, yakni pusat perbelanjaan, penyeberangan, dan perbatasan yang menerjunkan 210 petugas. "Selain posko terpadu Nataru, juga telah disiapkan pos terpadu Defest di kawasan Catur Muka yang menerjukan 290 personel dalam sehari yang dibagi ke dalam dua shift. Untuk satu shift terdiri atas 150 petugas yakni shift pertama pukul 08.00 hingga 15.00 Wita dan shift kedua pukul 15.00 hingga 23.00 Wita," ujarnya. Di samping itu Sriawan juga mengatakan, pengamanan pelaksanaan Nataru pihaknya telah mempersiapkan 4 posko terpadu. Yakni Pos Umanyar, Pos Terminal Ubung, Pos Pelabuhan Pengumpan Lokal Sanur dan Pos Pelabuhan Serangan, serta diprediksi akan terjadi lonjakan pergerakan kendaraan dan penumpang ke Kota Denpasar mencapai 20 persen. "Kita antisipasi lonjakan Nataru tahun ini termasuk antisipasi kendaraan wisata yang parkir di pinggir jalan," kata Sriawan. Ia menambahkan, untuk ketersediaan sarana angkutan di Denpasar terdiri atas AKDP 37 unit, Trans Metro Dewata 105 unit, bus sekolah 14 unit, kereta kuda 2 unit dan dokar 8 unit. Sementara fast boat untuk Sanur ke Nusa Penida 37 unit, Sanur - Nusa Lembongan 22 unit, Serangan - Lombok 6 unit, Serangan-Nusa Penida/Lembongan 30 unit. Dalam kegiatan tersebut Wakil Wali Kota Arya Wibawa berkesempatan menyerahkan Helm Keselamatan dan Life Jacket kepada para petugas secara simbolis, serta peninjauan uji emisi kendaran.(bpn) Read the full article

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Komunitas Taman Hati Berbagi Sembako di Umanyar

Komunitas Taman Hati Berbagi Sembako di Umanyar

JBM.co.id | Amlapura – Para relawan tumbuh semakin banyak untuk peduli sesama bagi kemanusiaan, salah satunya melalui aksi sosial. Seperti halnya yang dilakukan Komunitas Taman Hati, berbagi sembako kepada masyarakat yang kurang beruntung di Banjar Dinas Umanyar, Desa Ababi, Kecamatan Abang, Rabu (27/10/2021). Dikatakan Kepala Dusun (Kadus) Banjar Dinas Umanyar, I Ketut Sumerta, S.Kom, hari ini…