#dialux

Image source: Mountainous Landscape with a Ruin - 1849 - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain

My thoughts: !!! Good!! Fic!!! The women are empowered!!! We love to see it!! Genuinely tho I don’t know anything about Game of Thrones so I can’t vouch for its character compliance. But I liked this a lot!!!

it's doubtless that they've created problems for people, like the lowered attention spans, the way they're used for propaganda and scams in novel new ways, the radicalisation etc, but it's pointless and sanctimonious to go like omg those YouNg PeOplE with their SoCiaL MeDia. it's like saying omg those young people and their video games. there's never going to be a world where social media no longer exists now, short of the world wide web catching a new millennium bug and going offline forever. it's just that education about it, regulations for it, haven't entirely caught up with this truth and many people haven't quite managed to move past the "this is a malady" stage of things.

For @dialux who requested Lalwen with a dark red colour palette! I hope you don't mind me adding Findis with a yellow palette <3

@tolkienrsb

          Tar-Calmacil was the eighteenth King of Númenor. His mother Tári-Avaldë raised him to disdain the will of the Valar, and though he was crowned with his Quenya name, he was an ardent member of the King’s Men and conducted his court in the Adûnaic tongue, and his supporters called him Ar-Belzagar.           Ar-Belzagar renewed Númenor’s focus on imperialism, further expanding their influence in Middle-earth. Though this resulted in Sauron retreating further to the east, it also brought great turmoil and suffering to the Middle Men, whom he pillaged and plundered on his conquests.           Calmacil married young, to his sweetheart Naltanárië, and they were madly in love for many years before politics came between them. Naltanárië was of the Faithful, and though she hoped to influence her husband to soften his persecution of her people, her attempts proved unsuccessful as Ar-Belzagar grew more and more wicked, forcing upon her the name Arî-Aglazôri and threatening her life should she continue to defy him.           But Naltanárië would not be cowed. She went behind her husband’s back to preach faith in the Valar, friendship to the elves, and compassion for the Faithful, not truly believing that Tar-Calmacil would make good on his threats. Alas, Ar-Belzagar grew so wrathful that he arrested her and promised to execute her as a public example should she not repent of her words. True to her values, Naltanárië met her end with pride, burning at the stake in a horrific display of Númenor’s decline into darkness.           Even the King’s Men looked askance at this atrocious act, turning against Ar-Belzagar and to his sons Abattârik and Gimilzagar. Though both young men were, like their father, haughty and ambitious, they loved their mother and refused to accept her execution as just. Abattârik hungered to take the throne as early as he could, that he might, as he saw it, better the nation, and using their grief at Naltanárië’s death he manipulated his younger brother into avenging her with the sword.           Upon Ar-Belzagar’s murder, Gimilzagar was now the target of the ire of all Númenor. With false sorrow, the newly-crowned Tar-Ardamin, known to the King’s Men as Ar-Abattârik, held a trial for his brother and declared that he also would meet his end. Betrayed, Gimilzagar spoke against Abattârik, but the people were satisfied that justice had at last been done, and he was lawfully executed before a great crowd of Númenóreans, including his wife and daughter.

[Crossover AU, where Joffrey chops Ned Stark's head off and Sansa wakes in Middle Earth to find Boromir on his way to the Council of Elrond. It's not an easy path ahead for either of them, but like hell is Sansa going to let her father out of her sight again, especially when he volunteers to take a demonic ring to the darkest part of the land.]