Silmarillion my unreadable love

And Melkor knew of all that was done, for even then he had secret friends and spies among the Maiar whom he had converted to his cause; and far off in the darkness he was filled with hatred, being jealous of the work of his peers, whom he desired to make subject to himself. Therefore he gathered to himself spirits out of the halls of Eä that he had perverted to his service, and he deemed himself strong.

I just like imagining all the unlimited terrible forms that the spirits Melkor twisted and perverted to his service could take. The way he might have snatched up bits and pieces of creations from the songs of of Yavanna and created new, warped bodies for those spirits so that they could invade the newly created world.

The ones on his face aren't apparent as words at first glance. Some having been scratched out with jagged lines (by Maedhros himself who knows what the foul words beneath mean), some truly illegible as script. But once you see it, see those lines and curves and puckered flesh as words, it's hard to unsee it.

Nobody asks what they mean though. Some don't want to, and some don't need to. The latter because they have read the words on his back, and for language savvy people, it's hard not to notice that it's Feanor's Oath. Written in the foul speech of Angband with blood as ink and skin as paper. A mockery of the resolve that saw Maedhros imprisoned. A reminder of his failure to keep it. A symbol of Feanor's defeat, his last words twisted into the very language of his enemy.

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pippin was 29 years old???

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he should've been at the green dragon

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my hungry ass could never travel with lembas

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#the entitlement i see on this site sometimes is disgusting #y'all will just post about having easy access to lembas when we can't eats hobbit food??? #we must starve??? #vent #do not rb

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CALLOUT FOR GRIMA WORMTONGUE

I've talked a lot about this already on this blog, but I want to have everything collected in one post so next time some dipshit with a white hand icon slides into my inbox to call me a liar I can just link to this post. tl;dr grima wormtongue has been poisoning my uncle and the land of rohan for the past few years, and here are the receipts:

Keep reading

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i stg if one more of you tells me I should've sent frodo on the eagles I'm asking iluvatar to take me back

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recent read: there and back again: a hobbit's tale by bilbo baggins

I thought this was SOOO fun and cute! I'm usually not into rpf but did anyone else think there was something between bilbo and thorin? 👀 I can't be the only one who saw it. but the ending made me cry my eyes out.

4.5/5 stars

#booklr #there and back again #bilbo baggins #recent read #dark academia #light academia #book review

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who up mirking they wood

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wtf the new king of gondor just bowed to these four random short guys?? everyone else bowed too and I just went along with it lmao 😅 am I missing something????

#this is right after he sang a song and made out with some hot elf chick #truly the wildest coronation i've ever been to

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here y'all go again pitting two bad bitches against each other

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everyone who voted galadriel is a kinslayer apologist #luthiensweep

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fuck my job so much. everyone manifest an attack on gondor so I can finally warm my fingers on this beacon fire.

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by eru this can't be happening

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This is a comic inspired by an extract from the final part of The Return of the King! Sam sees what I believe is the star of Eärendil, giving him hope in the most difficult part of their journey.

I love this part of the story and Tolkien’s writing is really beautiful and hopeful even in the darkest moments of Lord of the Rings.

Also… I was reading The Children of Húrin while drawing this and interestingly Túrin also sees a star before the battle against the dragon. I wonder if this has any significance (although these stories are very different) or if it was just a device that Tolkien liked?

It’s when authors write that the elves, specifically the feanorians, nolofinwions, arafinwions, etc, had/have swordfighting lessons/strategical war training/etc, in VALINOR.

Bc the entire point of valinor is that there is no need for it, they never thought that there was a need for it. That’s why feanor pulling a sword on nolofinwe was so bad. Bc there was literally no preexisting notion for such actions. It’s why morgoth could catch them so off gaurd.

Like, the noldo were fucking noobs when it comes to combat/war (through no fault of their own) during valinor/the beginning of their time in middle earth AND THAT’S WHY they ritually fucked up so badly.