FIL3T

pleurer en couleur (to cry in color)

lumière s'éteint (light dies)

[prints]

pour ceux qui ne cessent de s'aimer (for those who never stop loving each other)

[...] Turgon said: 'Fight not against doom, O my children! Seek ye who may safety in flight, if perhaps there be time yet: but let Tuor have your lealty.' But Tuor said: 'Thou art king', and Turgon made answer: 'Yet no blow will I strike more', and he cast his crown at the roots of Glingol. Then did Galdor who stood there pick it up, but Turgon accepted it not, and bare of head climbed to the topmost pinnacle of that white tower that stood nigh his palace. - The Fall of Gondolin

rest(er)

treat for @fadesense in this year's Viperquin exchange.

But in that hour, Finarfin forsook the march, and turned back, being filled with grief, and with bitterness against the House of Fëanor [...] and many of his people went with him, retracing their steps in sorrow [...] But his sons were not with him [...] - The Silmarillion, "Of the Flight of the Noldor"

Tolkien in Color: The House of Finwë (part 12/x)

Revenant for @tolkienrsb 2025 in collaboration with @mossquitoman. Here's part of the original art prompt:

another tashur thing

Elu Thingol for Stella Getreuer-Kostrouch's talk Cherished antagonist, despised protagonist - a defence of Elu Thingol at Mereth Aderthad 2025 (free fanzine download here).

The third son of Fingolfin, Arakáno (Argon), emerged in the course of the making of the genealogies. A pencilled note on the last of the four tables says that he fell in the fighting at Alqualondë; this was struck out, and my father notes that a preferable story was that he perished in the Ice. It is curious that this third son, of whom there had never before been any mention, entered (as it seems) without a story, and the manner of his death was twice changed before the remarkable appearance here of 'the first battle of Fingolfin's host with the Orks, the Battle of the Lammoth,' in which he fell. - The Peoples of Middle-Earth, “The Shibboleth of Fëanor” (note 38)