and with him the light

Some are the Maiar who served him at Utunmo and before and who fled when the Valar razed it. Some are the monsters he wrought in the shadows of his first fortress.

I wonder what these beings were doing during Melkor’s confinement.

Some I imagine were dormant. Shapes in rocks and the shadows frozen between trees. Many of the balrogs were sleeping beneath the earth, woken only by Melkor’s echoing scream.

Some were continuing to wreak havoc in Beleriand and to the east,causing disorientation and injury to elves traversing isolated montane passages, poisonous springs that spread madness in rivulets, eerie cries in the dark that lone travellers avoid.

Sauron:

The field is lost

Everything is lost

The black one has fallen from the sky and the towers in ruins lie

The enemy is within, everywhere

And with him the light, soon they will be here

Go now, my lord, while there is time

Morgoth:

And you know them too

I release thee, go

My servant you'll be for all time

Sauron:

As you command

My king

Morgoth:

I had a part in everything

Twice I destroyed the light and twice I failed

| left ruin behind me when I returned

But I also carried ruin with me

She, the mistress of her own lust

Andre Olbrich / Hans Juergen Kuersch

A queen at the long fall of her empire

my female version of feanor, who I roleplay at @valar-critical

Like this Celebrimbor by Angus McBride. Like yes you’re right the guy who forged the rings was ripped AND of course he did it shirtless how could I be so stupid not to realise

And this Morgoth and Fingolfin by Eric Velhagen. Of course theyre shredded I’ve been so blind but now my eyes are open

Elves being able to see spectrums of color that humans cannot. Shapes in the dark, the colors of movement, of water, of different forms of light.

Elves who can primarily see at night or in the depths of a forest, who experience disorientation in bright or open spaces.

Elven languages canonically have many roots related to green. I imagine some languages with hundreds of words for green, the green of light through trees in the morning, of frail ferns unfurling in the dawn of spring, of the metallic greens of raven’s or starling’s feathers, of a sickly pallor or dusty lichens.

Forms of color blindness that don’t exist among humans or are more common among elves; inability to name or distinguish colors, only seeing shades of grey, temporary color blindness arising from extreme stress or sensory deprivation.

Synesthesia in general is more common among elves and many forms involve color; smells or tastes as color, sound as color, the music of the world, in the water, felt as color. Pain or grief as color. Communicating color through ósanwë.

Nienna

Aredhel lives canon divergence, but make it worse because she's a kinslayer (maybe twice if you count alqualonde??)

cw: major character death of course because it's the silm

In a clearing of holin and white oak, aided by Amras, Aredhel lifts her son's body onto its funeral pyre. Already the followers of Celegorm, Curufin, and Caranthir have lit the fires for their slain lords and their companions. When Maedhros at last exhausts his search for Dior's twin sons, he comes upon her kneeling beside the flames that lick at her son's corpse. Maedhros falls to his knees beside her. Through the blue smoke-haze, Maglor keens a lament.

Its yet another Ungoliant and another kind of horror drawing style 😌✨️

Also have a alternative version without her little snacks babies under the cut

What are your thoughts on the origins of Ungoliant? Tolkien had a couple of ideas for her after all