#valimar

[gzeidraws]

CS2 and 3 Rean-mashup, wielding a variant of Noah's Lucky Seven!

A commission for @crispytp (thank you!!)

[knockoutssparebuffer]

A crossover art I've been working on for the past 5 days. This is based on a gift fic from my brother linked here (I have permission from him to link it)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62121388

Disclaimer: I know some characters may not look completely correct, I struggled drawing Rean and Valimar

Context under the cut

So, for the past few months, my brother has been introducing me to the game series Trails of Cold Steel. When he first started showing me it, I wasn't fully into it, until, I started paying attention to the voices. Particularly, one caught my attention later on, the voice of Rean's Divine Knight, Valimar.i realized that the voiced sound familiar. So one Google search later, and I find out he's voiced by the same guy who played Chase in rescue bots. At the time, we were watching Fairly Oddparents and planned to watch Prime after that, so we added RB to the list. Anyway, for fun, I started saying that Chase and Valimar would get along, so skip a few months to when we start watching Rescue Bots. Me and my brother and I started talking more about how they would interact, the opinions of each other, et cetera, et cetera.. and one day, just for fun, I say, "Someone should write a fic of them meeting," and I come over the next day, and my brother tells me that he has started writing the fanfic, so I'm a little shocked at that, because to be honest I was mostly joking, so in response, I say "you finish the fic and I'll draw art to go with it."

And here we are now.

[lilactranslations]

Crow’s Makin’ Trails, Chapter 5! Dengeki Online has been putting out an ongoing biweekly four-panel comic centering around Crow Armbrust, and I’ve decided to translate them. Stay tuned for updates!

Please support the original comic by viewing it (for free!) here!

[mfelewzi]

A Elbereth Gilthoniel - Clamavi De Profundis

[critter-wizard]

oyughhghh garret.............

+ out of context session doodles

[banhegemonedelgard]

You shouldn't make a mess in someone else's bathroom, so you shouldn't go and make a mess in someone else's Aether Keep and then go and justify your bullshit with several bullshit units like Forma versions of Young Palla and Young Caeda. It's just plain injustice.

So hopefully exposing this shithead's map will get them more losses in the future. Good luck making a mess in THEIR bathroom.

[onenicebugperday]

i'm doing a school project about worms, and was wondering if there is anything about worm cells that is different from the average animal cell, because i can't seem to find anything online. can you provide a diagram if so? thanks!

Hi "worm" is a super super broad term. You'd have to be more specific with a scientific name! Feel free to comment on this with more info if you have it and tag me so I see it :)

[rana-temporaria]

I'm thinking so much about how big valinor is I mean it's a continent there is so much land!!

It's a land with living people, not some statue of perfection that remains the same forever!

Through the ages so many new cities are probably built

Thingol, Melian and the Sindar building new cities since the Sindar are on a whole damn new continent and they don't have to worry about too much about making them defendable (Though I hc they miss Beleriand, despite the horrors, or because of them, Beleriand is my favorite)

Multiple Telerin cities and towns and villages and homesteads stretching across the coastline

Vanyarin cities surrounding Taniquetil, with some houses built into the mountainside to be closer to Ilmarin!

Noldorin villages and smithies and palaces that extend far underground, to mines full of gleaming gems and metals

I'll make seperate posts about all of these, I've been thinking so much about Valinor lately

[that-angry-noldo]

But the Ainur are beings of memory, made to create and perserve and to never forget - and there was beauty among the ruin, no matter how desperate it might have seemed. There was loyalty, and bravery, and unity; there was Finarfin, tall and proud and stubborn, his acts calculated and carried out flawlessly - there was Finarfin, who entered Eonwe's heart and refused to leave - Finarfin, whom Eonwe missed above all else whenever he looked westwards from the shores of Numenor, his absence a dull ache in Eonwe's chest.

he is so normal

[millenariumhappinesstheorem]

I love that part in Namarie that's basically like "UGH maybe even a fuckup like you can find Valimar." Maybe I can, Galadriel. Maybe I can. :P

[animalcurve]

HES FLIRTING WITH YOU DUMBASS !!!

[knockoutssparebuffer]

Saw the Cold Steel tag for the character opinion bingo! Thoughts on Rean Schwarzer and/or Juna Crawford?

Rean:

Weirdly, I don't think I can really describe my view on Rean. All that comes to mind is the lyric from the song "she used to be mine" which goes "she is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie" like, I really liked his character arc in CS2, and I really like his vibe. He's a pretty deep and complex character. And I really find his bond with Valimar very very wholesome and nice to see.

Juna:

Honestly, I liked her a lot. She was pretty cool, and I always loved a woman who could think for herself. I really liked her character arc specifically because it really showed how many layers she has. I mean, who wouldn't hate the country that forcefully annexed them? She's a very complex character, and I always like that in any character

[silmalope]

As the sun sets in the western seas, Elwing hears Eärendil singing in Quenya by the shore.

(tengwar is the last two lines of Galadriel’s lament, the bit that means: farewell! maybe thou shalt find valimar; maybe even thou shalt find it. farewell!)

[starillion]

yeeting my recently written namárië scripts here

script on the left is the original version in lotr whereas the one on the right is one rewritten by me

below is translation of my version of namárië

Ai, fanyarë ata lanta mornienna

Ai, the sky slips to darkness again

Anar nútala Númenna lintavë

as the sun sets swiftly West

yassë calanen or Valmar tírë!

where with light over Valmar looks!

Á nyarë nin, nó oantielyë

Tell me before you go -

Tilion hya, ortala sí

or Tilion as you ascend -

manen caitëa Valmar han ceninya

how Valmar lies beyond my sight!

carpa umelyë, hehtainan er

but you do not tell me and I am left alone :

Sí manna maquetinyë quentar et márello?

Now to whom shall I ask the tidings of home?

An ciryar avánier hópallo sira

For ships have gone extinct from havens hither

lá ecë quenen atalelya Númenna

and none may pass again to the West.

Caitala tára, lá cimë nin lolossë

High it lies, Oiolossë hears me not

naltar elenion nírenyassë

and the stars alone reflect my tears [reflection of tears in my eyes]

altainë yéninen, oiolemyala.

deepened by long years and undepleted.

Mornië-nóressë, tárala queten

In the shadow lands I stand and cry

Sí vanwa ná, oialë vanwa, Valimar!

now lost, forever lost is Valimar!

Namárië, nai hiruvalyë Valimar!

Farewell! May you find Valimar!

Nai elyë hiruva, namárië!

Maybe you shall find it, farewell!

[ereborcore]

i very much enjoy depictions of oromë with animal traits. i think that is a very cool design choice. oromë is my favourite vala and i always love to see art of him. HOWEVER... i would like to provide a perspective i rarely see acknowledged: that oromë is a god who symbolises man's stewardship over the natural world. depictions of him as a very human figure, with all the trappings of civilisation, make a lot more sense to me, considering his role.

oromë's association with animals is all about domestication. he rides a horse, he keeps trained hounds, and he even has cattle. the hunter-god identity could be animalistic; obviously animals hunt. but oromë hunts with weapons, and trains animals to serve him. therefore he has dominion over beasts, rather than being himself beastlike. this dominion is peaceful, not abusive or controlling or unnatural. domestication is seen as good and natural.

on the wilderness as his domain: oromë is called 'the lord of forests', and loves trees, and the lay of leithian calls him 'the forest-god'. but he doesn't live in the forest! he rules over the forests, but he lives in a house; the book of lost tales says it's in the city of valmar (a city can be seen as the opposite of the wilderness). it's full of spears and bows and knives and hunting trophies: all signs of civilisation.

most interesting maybe is the living trees that grow inside. this blends oromë's house into a mixture of the forest and a structure: peaceful cohabitation of nature and civilisation.

the women oromë is associated with also have this theme of peaceful harmony between the wild and civilisation. nessa his sister runs in the forests with deer, but returns to valimar to dance on lawns (lawns that oromë himself 'culled' from his forest glades- hmm!) vána his wife tends to gardens, and picks flowers; we could see this as the feminine version of dominion over nature. oromë is the master of animals and tames them to his will, while vána turns wild flora into cultivated gardens.

so when i think of oromë, i think of furs, leathers, and arrows, not teeth, claws, and antlers. he symbolises a belief that mankind (using this word as a catch-all for non-divine beings) should live in peaceful dominion over the natural world, so he must be man-shaped. hunting is part of that dominion, even though it is associated with death and predation.

after all, oromë's role as huntsman only becomes threatening when morgoth lies and tells the elves that the dark rider will hunt and eat them, not the animals that are his sanctioned prey. and what prey is celegorm hunting when huan, hound of oromë, leaves him for good?

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

"[Tulkas'] spouse is Nessa, the sister of Oromë, and she also is lithe and fleetfooted. Deer she loves, and they follow her train whenever she goes in the wild; but she can outrun them, swift as an arrow with the wind in her hair. In dancing she delights, and she dances in Valimar on lawns of never-fading green." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Valaquenta"

@ainurweek day 7 ⇢ NESSA

[ID: an edit comprised of six posters in shades of red, black, and brown, with some white and gold accents.

1: Sheerah Ravindren, a tamil model with brown skin and long black hair, some of which is braided. They are looking over their shoulder at the viewer with a neutral expression, surrounded by gold foliage on a red background. The image is framed by a white rectangle which cuts off in the upper left corner, where white cursive text reads "Nessa." White serif text in the bottom right corner reads "the dancer" in all caps / 2: A red-handled knife with a dangling tassel beside its matching red sheath on a black background. White text, some in cursive and some in the serif font, reads "And it is sung that in that feast of the Spring of Arda / 3: A deer's face emerging from dark shadows. Text in the same format as Image 2 reads "Tulkas espoused Nessa the sister of Oromë, and she danced" / 4: Sheerah Ravindren, this time facing the viewer with their hands resting on either side of their head. They wear no shirt, and their hair hangs over their chest, as well as several gold necklaces. Same text as Image 1, but the text has switched to the bottom left and top right corners / 5: Sheerah Ravindren facing the viewer and crossing their arms above their head as if dancing. Same text and format as Image 1 / 6: An indian classical dancer. The image shows multiple exposures, making the figure look like they are in several poses at once. Text in the same format as Images 2 and 3 reads "before the Valar upon the green grass of Almaren." //End ID]