#tinfang

Saw your post.

Do you know Tinfang Warble ? Do you want to doodle him ? As the potential brother of Luthien, singer in the night.

Or Edrahil, the loyal soldier of Finrod if you prefer.

Have a lovely day 💚

-laisrinel

Day 4 @tolkienofcolourweek: Music

I realised after starting that Tinfang was not a woman in the text. However my justification is that no people ever saw Tinfang so no one could know for certain.

Part 23 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

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1: text 'Maglor' repeated over photo of sun on sea

2: Gambian man Jally Kebba Susso playing an oud in yellow clouds

3: Kenyan woman Labdi Ommes playing the orutu in blue green clouds

4: text 'Tinfang' over a photo of blue sea

5: text 'Daeron' repeated over purple flowers

Tolkien was a young man when his earliest work on the "Silmarillion" emerged in the form of the Book of Lost Tales. Full of whimsy, the Lost Tales present a version of Middle-earth where enchantment reigns and Faerie is a place where mortals sometimes land.

From this earliest work comes Tinfang Warble: a mysterious character whose eerie music enchants its mortal listeners and makes the stars burn brighter. Tinfang first appeared in Tolkien's writings even before the Lost Tales, and his character evolves along with Tolkien's work on the tales until he disappeared from the legendarium altogether. Tinfang survives in the two renowned (doomed) musicians of the legendarium: Daeron and Maglor. The difference between Tinfang's character and these later evolutions illustrates the stark shifts the legendarium underwent as it progressed from the Lost Tales to its final form. This month's biography, by @dawnfelagund, explores what we know of this obscure character and his shifting role in the legendarium.

my 15 pound musclebound beefcake half-bengal will let you pick him up, flip him around, dribble him, and dunk him in a bucket of water before he even mildly protests. he gives his vet kisses

Instead can't I believe they were found by Tinfang and spent their childhoods living like the elven version of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, having awesome adventures and cleverly outsmarting and escaping orcs at every turn?