cogitating on the lambengolmor….i think they’re almost like a monastic order in some ways; set a little bit apart from everyone else. living in a big house all surrounded by gardens on top of a hill, with capiz-shell windows and calados carved to look like tengwar script…they build in narra-wood and mangkono from yavanna’s groves and they have scrolls so long that they roll up on the ceiling: when someone wants to read or add to them, the scholars get up on stepladders and let them down like curtains and weigh the tails down with stones so they don’t blow too much with the breezes (it makes the writing squiggle and runs the ink). they have wind-chimes hanging off the porticos carved to ‘say’ phrases in valarin and the novices put out saucers of rice and and the sweetest chunks of rambutan for the maiar….sometimes they come and sit on the verandahs and they tell the novices what the cats and monkeys and snakes in the garden are dreaming about when they take their naps
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@tolkiengenweek day one | mentorship ● community | the lambengolmor
Though Fëanor after the days of his first youth took no more active part in linguistic lore and enquiry, he is credited by tradition with the foundation of a school of Lambengolmor or ‘Loremasters of Tongues' to carry on this work. This continued in existence among the Noldor, even through the rigours and disasters of the Flight from Aman and the Wars in Beleriand, and it survived indeed to return to Eressëa. Of the School the most eminent member after the founder was, or still is, Pengolodh, an Elf of mixed Sindarin and Ñoldorin ancestry, born in Nevrast, who lived in Gondolin from its foundation. He wrote both in Sindarin and in Quenya. He was one of the survivors of the destruction of Gondolin, from which he rescued a few ancient writings, and some of his own copies, compilations, and commentaries. It is due to this, and to his prodigious memory, that much of the knowledge of the Elder Days was preserved.
—The History of Middle-earth: Volume XI: The War of the Jewels, “Quendi and Eldar”
Notes:
“Loremasters of tongues” and “linguistic loremasters” are two canonical translations of the word Lambengolmor
Fëanor, Rúmil, and Pengolodh are the only characters who are canonically part of the Lambengolmor
Rúmil’s epessë Saratitamo is my headcanon; it translates literally to “maker of the Sarati”
We don’t know for certain that Rúmil taught Fëanor, but it is likely considering Fëanor’s expansion of his work (adapting the Sarati to the Tengwar)
Fëanor obviously did many other things besides founding the Lambengolmor and creating the Tengwar, but those are his two achievements related to this topic
Quennar i Onótimo was a loremaster of Aman and possibly of Beleriand; he wrote mostly about timekeeping (thus his epessë i Onótimo, meaning “the Reckoner”); though he is not specified to be among the Lambengolmor, his first name means “elf-speaker” and he canonically devised the word menel, “heavens/firmament,” which in my mind makes him an excellent candidate for a linguistic loremaster
The Quettúri (“word-masters”) were a concept related to the Lambengolmor; we don’t know Quennar was associated with them, but I wanted to include them in this edit so I used him as a link between the two organizations; in coining new words, the Quettúri specifically exercised lámatyávë (“sound-taste”), the practice of taking pleasure in the sounds and forms of words (phonaesthesia)
Penlod’s place among the Lambengolmor of Gondolin is my headcanon; I put them as the leader of the House of the Pillar (later taking on the House of the Tower of Snow as well) and the chief loremaster of Gondolin
I adapt the Cottage of Lost Play into a school of learning and lore, and so I have given the characters who appear as storytellers in The Book of Lost Tales the role of loremasters, thus making them part of the Lambengolmor
Evromord was a proto-Rúmil character, and Gilfanon lived in the House of a Hundred Chimneys; I also headcanon they are survivors of Gondolin’s fall who sailed to Tol Eressëa after the First Age; Evromord’s headcanoned epessë Fennatir is neo-Quenya for “door-watcher,” a nod to his role in BoLT as the door-ward of the Cottage
Lindo and Vairilmë are the keepers of the Cottage of Lost Play in BoLT (Vairilmë’s name there is actually Vairë, but I tweaked it to distinguish her from the Valië); they are a married couple
Ilverion Littleheart is the son of Voronwë (though I headcanon Voronwë adopted him), and is another storyteller at the Cottage in BoLT
Meril-i-Turinqi is the Queen of Tol Eressëa in BoLT, and since she also tells stories I have made her a loremaster as well, though she acts primarily as a patron of the Cottage and does not dwell there herself
Quendingoldo is the Quenya name for Pengolodh
For more on my headcanons about these characters, check out these posts in my Peoples of Arda edit series: Lambengolmor, Cottage of Lost Play, House of the Pillar
My brother did stuff like that. Now he thinks he is like the best drug dealer ever but he is actually really lame and lives in a shitty house (if it’s still standing after Sandy) and always has bed bugs and never has money. So, yeah…
No offense but I hope we get him on the right track on time. But he is definitely going in that direction right now with what I have been seeing and hearing from him and his friends. He has an IQ of 150 and he is going through a difficult phase of arrogance, thinking this number is giving him the future he needs. Which it's not. He still needs to work for that. Ugh, children are difficult.
Anyway, how old is your brother? What happened? If you don't mind sharing.
lambengolmor replied to your post: .
Honey, I feel you, I really do. Best of luck! Don’t put too much pressure on yourself, you’re not his mom and you’ve tried your best
Yeah, it's just. I kind of am? I have been practically raising him due to family issues since I was 12 (to the point where he actually started to call me mom).
And even though he is now living with our actual mom again he still comes to me for everything. I feel so responsible for his actions and I certainly want a better life for him than what I have right now. And I DID quit school due to anxiety problems. I know how hard it is to build up a life after that.
