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inspired by a thing some people in a discord channel iâm in are doing: make ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ME/US based on my/our WRITING. bonus points if you read the writing before having talked to us.
(writing can be found here; if youâre familiar with glowfic/amentumblr i assume you know who i am, but if you donât then you can send an ask and iâll clarify)
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gonna skip to part five of the magnus archives bc ive been told thats when the trolls come in
i donât even have a personality any more iâm just like good morning THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
Iâm loving all this gender+sexuality Tolkien talk, but now Iâm curious - what ARE the ways that you think all these elves and Atani conceive of gender in their cultures? Iâll admit that the idea in the Nolofinwe post that lady elves and ONLY lady elves can make bread, not male elves, as baked into world physics really got me. Like, is that a defining difference? THE defining difference? Or is it all down to that Homosocialization and itâs all about who you hang out with?
Okay so the bread baking thing is half serious half canon. The only serious defining âthis is a thing that only nĂssi can do as opposed to nĂ©riâ thing in Tolkienâs discussion of sex and gender among the elves is baking bread. And there are a few schools of thought regarding that, from âitâs just a gendered skill that nĂ©ri donât get taught how to doâ to âyeast literally will not ferment unless a nĂs is doing the bakingâ; I tend to go with the latter, because itâs so very alien and because itâs also hilarious.
The big thing for me is that elves donât have the big things that define gender and gender roles for us in western society. Elvish religion is explicitly not particularly organized - there are some hymns to the Valar, but they donât treat the Valar as gods whose wills must be obeyed, and itâs stated in-text more than once that there are areas of life that the Valar have no real dominion over. There arenât millennia of religious doctrine hashing out what gender means on a theological or sacramental level, and there arenât millennia of societal traditions that all more or less fall into âMan lead woman followâ, either. The one text that we have that discusses gender is pretty clear that aside from the mechanics of biological reproduction and baking bread, thereâs no set-in-stone divisions between nĂ©ri and nĂssi, which indicates to me that thereâs no reason these people would share our modern conceptions of what gender is. Elves donât have long organically-developed histories involving many different layers of experience where gender plays a role in things. Because theyâre immortal with relatively low population growth rates and a lack of the older generations dying out to codify social changes, they are pretty consistent; I donât think thereâs zero change from CuiviĂ©nen to Imladris, at all, but thereâs much less change than there would be in the same amount of time for a human population. And CuiviĂ©nen isnât stratified by gender, either - they didnât develop a system based on designating particular roles to specific genders, and we know this because itâs never mentioned in the text.
So what Iâm left with is the fact that we know that both Imladris and Valinor had cultures with two recognized genders, but no real set-in-stone roles for those genders, because there was no need for gender roles to exist, so they just⊠never developed. I do think that there was a masculine/feminine divide of sorts, but nothing particularly coded one way or the other. Basically, it doesnât look anything like what we have today, and therefore mapping out things like our contemporary frustrations or angst regarding the restrictive nature of gender roles just doesnât work. They donât see that much difference between nĂ©ri and nĂssi, not really, though there are certain signifiers that indicate âmasculineâ or âfeminineâ, and there is some expectation that gender will correspond at least a little to oneâs anatomy, but there arenât social consequences for varying from those signifiers or expectations.
I realized I left the Atani out, which is really not fair!
I donât think that the Atani have anything corresponding to Western gender roles either, though we can guess that they have concepts for âmanâ and âwomanâ based on TĂșrin and how he talks about the people in his family. I donât think that there are taboos based on gender expression or sexual orientation among the Atani either, not until you get into societies like NĂșmenor, which are just more stratified on the whole, and which are defined by class and by status in much more concrete ways than civilizations that came before or after them. There might be more division of labor along gender lines, in the sense that men go out and actively fight the enemy while women hold down the home front, but I donât think that this is associated with any kind of social prejudices against women - tbh, itâs a private headcanon of mine that women and civilian noncombatants are considered to be extremely important among the Edain, because the important part of defending a home is that thereâs a home to come back to. Iâve also devoted a lot less thought to them, though, and Iâm hoping to change that.
I have lots of thoughts on this but also negative spoons; poke me on discord about it later? (If itâs in a server rather than DMs, please @ me or I wonât see it)
I have made a new podfic, for 75hearts/@daywillcomeagainâs fic âin the indigos of darknessâ.
A story about found family, three unrepentant kingâs men under PharazĂŽn, disability, religion, and death
Link to the ao3 page
Link to the google drive download
Image credit to the European Southern Observatory. CC BY 4.0
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EVERYONE IN THIS CANON WILL GET THERAPY AND LOVE EACH OTHER NO MATTER HOW MUCH EFFORT IT TAKES ME
Fanart (14)
Fluff (13)
Angst (7)
âŠI honestly expected angst to be higher (though maybe a greater variety of angst tags is splitting the vote?).
Angst (12) Canonical Character Death (9) Suicide (4) Dubious Consent (4) Character Study (4)
I feel. Hm. Called out.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I know the NĂșmenor day for @ataniweek was yesterday, but I wrote a quick Tar- MĂriel centric fic (warning: Itâs kinda dark) that Iâm hoping they can still give a shout?
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Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Tar-MĂriel/Original Female Character(s), Tar-MĂriel/Original Kingâs Man Character, Ar-Pharazon/Tar-Miriel Characters: Tar-MĂriel, Ar-PharazĂŽn, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Sauron | Mairon Additional Tags: NĂșmenor, Romance, Unhappy Ending, Tragedy, âCanon Compliantâ as a warning tag, Torture, Disease, Gift Giving, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Religion, Religious Worldbuilding, Infidelity, Loyalty, Spies & Secret Agents, Conflicted Loyalties Summary:
Ten of Swords: a painful and inevitable ending.
Ar-Pharazon has fears about the loyalty of his new wife, Tar-Miriel, and asks a soldier, Zimrazagar, to spy on her, in the guise of guarding her.
Zimrazagar intends to stay as a mere bodyguard, with a sideline in spying, but even with the best of intentions, she does not succeed.
âŠand it all ends in drowning and death,
You can always tell you've reached A Certain Point(TM) with a specific fandom when you can look at fanworks and immediately pick out the influence of other content creators in the fandom, as well as what headcanon trends (not necessarily related to the fanwork in question) the author likes, what ships they prefer, get a good idea of what discourse posts they would have reblogged and what side they would have taken, and approximately date the thing without needing a time stamp, like an art historian who is a hyper-specialised expert in a particular creative millieu from like, the nineteenth century
turgon doesnât share his dream (14/?)
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To all the Tumblr users who tend to use tags very liberally:
Letâs play a game. Type the following words into your tags box, then post the first automatic tag that comes up. you, also, what, when, why, how, look, because, never
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thinking about Finduilas always really gets to me, and I know itâs because Iâm Overemotional Finduilas Faelivrin Fan #1 and all but also just!! This girl! The Silmarillion is filled to the brim with characters who are hurt and grieving and who have had their hope crushed time and time again, but who respond to it by fighting back against the dark forces that did that to them. Finduilas⊠doesnât have that outlet. Sheâs sidelined as emotional support in a hopeless war, and I think it says a lot about her character that she immediately fell in love against her own will with the first person in however many years who made her feel like she, or anyone for that matter, could do something.
âŠAnd then her choice of allegiance turned out to be wrong, in that final, fatal case. I wonder how that made her feel, bleeding out as a prisoner of orcs, knowing that her beloved and her father were dead in part because of the choice she aligned herself with in a desperate bid not to be helpless anymore?
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Ship that you find disgusting: đ©
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Interest Checks!
Here are the interest checks for two possible separate projects, a general Silmarillion fandom fanzine and a Fin-galad centric one! âZineâ can mean a couple of things, but in this case refers to an organized collection of fanworks by different people.
Silmarillion Zine Interest Check
Fin-galad Zine Interest Check
Signal boosts are appreciated! I will close these checks mid-March, and continue or not continue the projects accordingly.
had a long and tedious week, so hereâs some maedhros I sketched to cheer me up. fave conflicted-murder-elf-looking-slightly-to-the-left. Iâm always torn about his hair: while I like all the headcanons abt him wearing it short post-thangorodrim I also like to picture him with the most impractically long fuck-you hairdo ever! but why choose whe heâs been around long enough to try everything. also, kintsugi-like customs but for covering scars w gold-leaf or something?? uhm. anyway, click-through for larger + descr.
