Mia

he's very tenacious and determined, and will go for it even when the odds are against him

Helfileg from early Sindarin

Meaning “frost on panes”

This is such a lovely, cool word! The derivation is hel meaning cold or frost as seen in later words like heleg meaning ice, and is related to Helcaraxë.

Fileg means fern so the translation is literally frost ferns which is so evocative!

I love that the Sindar have a word for this.

The lords of Gonfdolin.

Celeborn, Beleriand's most ✨pretty✨ eligible bachelor

(he won't be single for long... Galadriel is on a mission 😏)

I've been playing around with starting a prequel comic to Romance in Rivendell that's basically the start of Celeborn and Galadriel's love story. Celeborn is the prettiest most desirable boy on the block and Galadriel is wooing the heck out of him, and unbeknownst to her, he is wooing her, too. But due to ✨circumstances✨ outside of both of their control, their attempts at courting each other keep missing each other and/or misfiring 😅

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

100 words of Curufin and Celebrimbor for @feanorianweek. Ow.

It hurts, but with the keen relief of a boil’s lancing. The ugliness is broken open, making space for something wholesome to unfold. Curufin bites his tongue against the taste of Don’t forsake me. He does not permit himself to plead. The echoes of Celebrimbor’s childhood self in his furious shoulders, the pinch of his brows, only reinforce the need – to be severed, to keep this one good thing that Curufin has made from further harm. He gasps deep lungfuls of the bitter air, weeping as Nargothrond recedes. Let him be Doomed, damned…if only Tyelpe might thereby be saved.