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ulmo appears to tuor

fascinating how the silm implies ulmo's gender is Ocean

#silm #silmarillion #sesame art #ulmo #tuor #all the others seem to have a preferred humanoid fana that they spend at least some time in #except ulmo who only assumes his humanoid form when he absolutely needs to #and apparently only for a few minutes at a time #this was fun to figure out #the foam spray over the ulmo-wave forms his crown #and the white water on the sides forms his mantle #i tried to incorporate the deep green in the shadows #not sure how that turned out #but the greenish/tealish lighting on the wave looks cool i think #getting better at painting water! maglor walking sadly on the beach here i come

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just woke up to a weird noise from the tree outside. looked out the window and three baby bears popped out of the tree and ran off

#not art #not silm #my stuff

r-truth

gischtglas

hybernating-bear

That's because this is Silmarillion

the-commonplace-book

sesamenom

kitto & elto back on my dash in 2026??

#wwelves #silm adjacent #pd #pretty deadly #flintnap for reference we had an impromptu crossover fandom event ft. these guys as celegorm & curufin back in 2024 #i think i had it tagged 'braywashed saga' on @sesamenom-sideblog and 'wwelves' on my main #someone else came up with the wwelves tag but unfortunately i dont remember who #@curufiin and @kitwilsonsass (formerly braywashed hence my tag) were the main proponents but i dont know if they have specific tags #for the crossover #also @bob-ombadil wrote a quenya translation of the pd theme song and i transcribed it in tengwar

tanoraqui

actually where IS a fic where Melkor doesn’t return, or doesn’t find Ungoliant or something so all that takes longer to blow up, and Finwë has time to be like, “alright, everyone is slightly getting along…Indis and I are going on vacation for a few years and while we’re gone, Maitimo is King of the Noldor.” And then…

Finwë, to himself as he walks out the door: This will work great. Maitimo is eagerly supported by Fëanáro and his people, and respected (if sometimes begrudgingly) by Nolofinwë and his people. Moreover he’s a competent politician in his own right, genuinely interested in the work of rule, level-headed with responsibility… I bet we can stretch this vacation to a decade or even semi-retirement without anyone blinking. Nothing with disrupt it.

Maitimo, the second Finwë is out the door: For my first royal decree, let it be known that marrying your half-cousin is totally okay, and incidentally Findekáno and I are getting married next Tuesday. You’re all invited!

All Hell (read: family drama): [breaks loose]

shrikeseams

He's just following tradition! Clearly you can't be king of the noldor without a marriage controversy.

tanoraqui

@shrikeseams 1. Years, obviously; this is Maedhros we’re talking about. 2 (implied). My vague idea of the timeline here is:

a couple months ago: Fingon & Maedhros decide that fuck it, yeah, let’s just ELOPE! …but not right this instant; there’s the bridge-opening ceremony, and then Aredhel’s begetting-day party, and then…

so in, like, 2 months? Yes, 2 months. That’s the plan. “Hunting trip” just the two of them, nothing unusual, handle the consequences when they get back…

about 1 month ago: Finwë announces his vacation plans, including the kingship while he’s gone

Fingon: Oh no! Should we elope right now? Should we put it off longer? I don’t WANT to put it off any longer, I want to take you—

Maedhros: No no no no no—I got this. I can work with this. WE can work with this. We just need to arrange an entire royal wedding in a month, secretly, while still coordinating with Grandfather for my coronation—and secretly planning yours, after the wedding— We can combine those to compress the logistics. All the same people will attend. We need invitations; two outfits each, or at least two sets of jewelry; venue and seating; musicians; refreshments; someone on duty to keep my father from starting a fight, someone on duty to keep your father from starting a fight—easier job, but it’ll satisfy Father to see— Help me clear off this table and we can start the seating chart! And designing your crown—what kind of symbolism do you want? It should be strongly Noldorin, but I think we can afford a hint of Vanyarin aesthetic if you’d prefer—

Fingon, admiring, clearing off the table: It’s fucked up how this just makes me want to marry you even more. I don’t think I— no, yeah, I do actually want a hint of Vanyarin aesthetics. The curlicues their jewelry always has these days.

disorganisedautodidact

a VERY young Celebrimbor, looking at Maedhros' design for Fingon's crown: of course I can make this, but why do you need a crown? And why can't I tell dad?

sesamenom

Maglor networks up an entire secret orchestra's worth of musicians, separate from the regular coronation orchestra, and writes the wedding march

Celegorm handles all the Vala-sweet-talking required, starting with subtle hints to Orome and ending with less-than-subtle hints delivered to Manwe via hawk messenger

Maedhros does the logistics, of course, but Caranthir and Turgon are the ones who figure out how to procure the budget for a royal wedding without alerting anyone to suspicious withdrawals from the family coffers

Turgon also helps arrange the venue. after all, he is quite skilled at arranging hidden locations ahead of time

Aredhel volunteers to tackle anyone who tries to start a fight

they don't tell Curufin, but they do try to drop enough hints that he won't be excessively surprised when it happens. one Feanor is enough of a fight risk to deal with for now, and nobody wants a shocked and angry Curvo jumping in as well

Tiny Celebrimbor makes the crown in Mahtan's workshop while Nerdanel covers for him, because there's no way anyone's getting away with making secret crowns in Feanor's forge

riding-with-the-wild-hunt

fate awaits you with some sort of purpose, probably.

have you ever wanted to take a quiz where every result was bad and every question was weird? well now ☝️ you can

sesamenom

#silm #poll #uquiz #seconding outofangband here - you have a delightful way with words #beautifully written #now off to look through the reblogs because i now dearly need to see what the other results say

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grand-theft-carbohydrates

i want to coin a phrase that's the opposite of writer's block. call it the muse's fire hydrant. thirty thousand story ideas are being beamed directly into your brain and if you don't write them all at once you will die.

its-not-a-pen

yknow what i mean?

[ID: A greyscale sketch of a town street, with a store labelled "Writer's Block" closest to the viewer. A fire hydrant on the corner in front of the store is labelled, 'The Muse's Fire Hydrant". It's gushing water out into the street. A dog is standing directly in front of it with their mouth open wide. /End ID].

sesamenom

my brain: full comic of the last ark! my brain: three different fics at once! my brain: massive reverse gondolin painting with a billion complex poses! my brain: line by line comparison of the entirety of nightfall in middle earth to the corresponding chapters! my brain: the giant family tree that keeps crashing your laptop! my brain: illustrate the entire silm- me: NO

#my stuff #anyways yes hello i am alive #unfortunately my brain refuses to give me any short term projects #imagine if you will #feanor around the time of the creation of silmarils #hurtling around the house with his other million grand projects in mind #and then mae a few hundred years later #being very glad that the silmarils were the only one of said grand projects that feanor actually finished

tanoraqui

that theory that the Arkenstone is a Silmaril…it’s doubly implausible, but imagine if nobody knew. If the dwarves were guarded enough of their greatest treasure that…you wouldn’t even need to hide it from that many people, honestly. Mostly a few elves, and all wizards.

and then Bilbo sidles up to Gandalf like, “Thorin and all are holed up in the Mountain, but I think they’re being nuts, so I…kind of stole the Arkenstone, I think.” And (it’s been thousands of years since the light of the trees was doused save for the precious brilliance locked away in Feanor’s gems, since oaths and blood and war that raged until the skies cracked and the earth shattered, and the little people of the Shire have no memory of it at all) he pulls out a fucking Silmaril.

tanoraqui

Gandalf: *spittake*

Gandalf: *hurriedly glances at Thranduil. the king of Mirkwood’s eyes shine with curiosity and greed, but not recognition, nor the terrible lust that overtook Feanor and his sons. right, right, he was never in Thingol’s court while the jewel that Luthien and Beren took was there. we’re good. we’re good for now*

Gandalf: That’s, uh, nice, Bilbo. Put it away, would you?

tanoraqui

Gandalf, telepathically(?): EMERGENCY RINGBEARERS ONLY CONFAB NOW

Gandalf: [mental image of a goddam Silmaril in hobbit hands, labelled “thisfuckingrockagain.jpg”]

Galadriel, who watched 95% of her family slaughter everyone within 100 miles for several thousand years over these things, including each other and themselves: no.

Elrond, who was very nearly one of those people slaughtered, and did watch most of his town be killed before he and his twin were kidnapped for a while: Absolutely Fucking Not.

Gandalf: Apparently fucking yes. The legendary Arkenstone-

Galadriel: You’ve got to be kidding me.

Elrond: Thorin Oakenshield has a Silmaril right now?

Gandalf: No, no.

Gandalf: Bilbo stole it.

Elrond: *wordless sputtering*

Gandalf: @Galadriel [information packet: BilboBagginsoftheShire.pdf]

Galadriel: Oh yes, Belladonna’s boy, you were telling me about him last winter.

Galadriel: Btw, orc+warg army probably coming your way. Spotted it in the mirror last night. Thank goodness we dealt with Dol Goldur at least, huh?

Elrond: No fucking shit.

tanoraqui

Gandalf @Gwaihir Windlord: hey, sorry to bother you again, I know it’s nearly mating season. but we have a situation again

Gandalf: [thisfuckingrockagain.jpg]

Gandalf: [oncomingorcwargarmy.jpg]

Gandalf: [flashbacktobadasseaglesinwarofwrathhinthint.mov]

avelera

I mean, given that Tolkien retconned “The Hobbit” so Bilbo’s little invisibility ring became an ancient piece of jewelry that controls minds and drives the mighty mad, one can at least understand why it seems plausible that the other shiny white gem that destroys empires and makes the mighty go mad with greed could be linked from his kid’s book to his gigantic early mythology in retrospect??

crazy-pages

You know this actually explains a lot about why Gandalf didn’t immediately raise the alarm about Bilbo’s ring out of an abundance of caution. I mean, what are the odds, what are the fucking odds, that this one little hobbit stole both a Silmaril and the Ring of Power? Like, you are Gandalf the Grey and you have already dealt with the heart attack to end all heart attacks because this little innocent fool stole a world war inspiring artifact once. You still get flashbacks every time Bilbo offers to show you something and have to employ all of your angel’s serenity and thousands of years of learned composure not start giBbERinG “ pleaseletitnotbeanotherartifactpleaseletitnotbeanotherartifact”. And then. AND THEN! One day he’s like, “hey Gandalf let me show you this neat ring I found back on our journey”. And on the inside a tiny part of you is screaming “nottheoneringnottheoneringnottheonering” while a more rational part of your brain assures you it could not possibly be the one- “It’s this plain gold ring that’s very precious to me and turns me invisible!”

AND THEN YOU FUCK OFF AND SEARCH THROUGH EVERY POSSIBLE TOME YOU CAN TO PROVE IT CAN’T REALLY BE THE RING OF POWER, SAURON’S RING OF POWER, THAT RING, THE ONE RING, LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE TOME, BEFORE FINALLY FUCKING ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THIS SHIT IS REALLY HAPPENING AGAIN

countesskittymeow

@shewhodoesnotexist what says you? :P

shewhodoesnotexist

I’ve never been a proponent of this theory, but I gotta admit the idea of Bilbo finding two world war inspiring artifacts is alluring ;D

Next you’ll be telling me Sting is Gurthang

abrownpanther

Sting may or may not be Angrist, the knife that Beren used to get the Silmarill off of Morgoth’s crown

queenofthequillandink

“Average Hobbit finds at least one world war inspiring artifact when on a journey” statistic inaccurate. The Spiders Took Family, who find a world war inspiring artifact every five feet they step outside the Shire, were outliers and should not have been counted.

sunderwight

Bilbo: I’m not a burglar I wouldn’t even know how to be!

Also Bilbo: *trips and grabs seven legendary artifacts on the way down*

fiammagalathon

I propose the alternative theory, Sting is the dagger with which Glorfindel offed the Balrog

sesamenom

may I suggest: Sting is the knife Maeglin tried to stab Earendil with, and the mithril coat is Earendil's baby armor

#silm #silmarillion #not art #sting #maeglin #earendil

silmarienthequeen

So we all know Beleg chose the sword Anglachel, right? The evil all black one. But what I realized is that the Silm also mentions Beleg’s great bow Belthronding, which was made of “black yew-wood”. So both of Beleg’s weapons are specifically described as being black. Isn’t that interesting? All I’m saying is that we usually draw Beleg as looking like Legolas from the movies but maybe we need to start drawing him as goth.

sesamenom

furthermore:

#silm #not art #beleg #for some reason everyone latched onto drawing silver/white ponytail beleg #but he canonically has shoulder length black hair and a black jacket and a black sword and a black bow #(plus the whole jorts-breeches-red pointy toed boots situation)

lyragoth

Since the subject came up, would anybody be interested in reading an extremely self-indulgent fic (866 words) I wrote a while ago about Celebrimbor's dental anatomy and elvish teeth tissue and the impact it has on Annatar and why Finrod could fight a werewolf with his bare teeth? 😭😭😭😭

I know dentistry in the Silmarillion fandom is a very niche interest that probably nobody has, but I genuinely just love my job so much

sesamenom

@nelyoslegalteam Silm dentistry fic!

#silm #not (my) art #celebrimbor #annatar #also op love the footnotes #light-bound enamel is a fascinating solution to the 'how do immortal teeth work' thing #i think i will be adopting that #now im wondering. are there differences in the treelight elves vs those who lived only under the sun and moon?#do treelight elves have slightly shiny teeth (like treelight eyes?)#can unlight be used for etching? did ungoliant also kill the eyes/hair/teeth of everyone within range #so many questions #also annatar invented the handpiece! of course he would lol. and with mithril burs at that!#im imagining sauron experimenting on random elf prisoners #and now im cracking up at the mental image of some random orc being hauled over to do perio charts lol

woahhh since when did they add this reblog graph format???

#not silm #not art #my stuff #tumblr #tumblr updates #rejoice! for once an actually neat new feature!

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homunculus-argument

Oh, to be granted the power to speak to animals for just like 38 seconds, so that I could tell this pebble-brained feathery fuckass that nobody is impressed that he started singing earlier than anybody else. There's no bird pussy available at 2 am. The dames can sense your desperation. Stop screaming for at least three more hours.

sesamenom

how many times do you think celegorm's been woken up at 2am by a distraught brother asking him to tell the birds to shut up

#silm #silmarillion #celegorm #bird screaming at 2am? foxes rummaging in the campsite? rat ran off that way and vanished? call celegorm to scold the offending creature #on the other hand. maglor lamenting at 2am? call mae

in honor of the last day of mermay:

gil galad was a swordfish king, of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the mountains and the sea.

his legs were long, his bill was keen, his shining fin afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's sails were mirrored in his silver scales.

but long ago he swam away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for past the halls has claimed his soul fish-galad, son of plothole.

#silm #silmarillion #gil galad #gil galad son of plothole #fish galad #reverse mermaid #mermay #writing #<- i guess #behold.

noicouldnevergiveyoupeace

do yall ever wonder what you’re best known for in the fandom ?

galadriel1010

Excessive levels of historical detail, or fisting. I hope it's the fisting

sesamenom

based off my notifs and my askbox, i'm pretty sure it's the gil galads

#not silm #not art #my stuff #silm fandom #gil galad son of plothole

the Singing Toadfish from @thescrapwitch's would you still love me if i was half-fish, based on @peasant-player's reverse mermaid trend :)

(is a reverse mermaid technically a peredhel?)

#silm #silmarillion #maglor #fishglor #reverse mermaid #mermay #lingwilante? perlingwilante?#hey at least in scrapwitch's fic maglor had the reverse mermaid dream before ulmo *actually* turned anyone into an animal #also adozentothedawn i think you're on the opposite timezone schedule as me so you'll probably see this in the morning #so enjoy your Morning Singing Toadfishglor #come join us in the silm fandom for more shenanigans #we have essays on beleriand postcolonial attitudes; theses on the physics of radioactive silmarils; and Crablor

landlord didn't pay for the building backflow test and the city shut off the water :/// it'll be back on tomorrow hopefully but for now here's an ulmo

#silm #silmarillion #sesame art #ulmo #mostly playing around with his ocean form #i have a cool tuor ulmo piece in mind but i cant figure out how to do the water

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maglorath tidbit: Cirdan's spent the past few thousand years wandering around the Mediterranean. he can't leave until Maglor (hermit, soundly ignoring the cry of the gull) and Daeron (even more hermit, too far inland to hear the gulls) do, so for now he's just hanging out in france. he speaks a bizarre hybrid of french, italian, latin, falathrin sindarin, and ilkorin; Maglor and Daeron avoid talking to him partially because of the offense to their linguist senses

#silm #silmarillion #maglorath #cirdan #maglor #daeron #currently cirdan speaks mostly french with latin grammar + cuivienen-era ilkorin idioms translated literally into italian #+ latin slang from his few centuries in rome + random sindarin words just thrown in there #crucially he is capable of speaking normal-ish modern-ish french in his everyday life! but when speaking to maglor and/or daeron #he just assumes they understand what has been dubbed the Cirdan Dialect and therefore doesnt bother to sort out what language is from #which Age like he does when talking to the Men. hes just too old to care at this point #also crucially both maglor and daeron *can* kind of understand him #but it's a massive pain figuring out what he's saying #in the very few years across the past Ages in which one of them is in contact w cirdan #maglor is split between wanting to study him and asking him to please just stick to sindarin i was still wandering the shores during #the roman republic and i don't get any of your references ;-;#daeron barely speaks english let alone french/italian/latin/whatever else cirdan threw in there #he did however come up with a new script specifically for adapting cirdan's mess of languages into something readable #and just avoids verbal conversation

mae's followers are his Loyal Subjects / Political Supporters. celegorm's followers are his weird vaguely cultish Cruel Servants. maglor's followers are his crazed-megafandom-turned-heavy cavalry.

#silm #silmarillion #not art #feanorians #maedhros #celegorm #maglor #this has been hanging out in my notes app for a while #gap warlord era maglor is so intriguing to me #theres a lot to be said about the role of the Gap in the bragollach and the fact that maglor chose those lands in particular #and that he didnt group up with mae until after his own lands were destroyed via dragon to the face #but also its objectively hilarious to imagine maglor's host as Cavalry Swifties

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