Manwë Þúlimo

It is time to stop worrying about which elves are more problematic and time to start acknowledging that I, Melkor, am the only truly pure and wholesome character who has done nothing wrong, ever. 

The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods.

Roméstámo/ Pallando

there’s never enough details

The last picture is my first attempt at this palette. But I didn’t like how it turned out so I started over. I found a gorgeous painting as a reference and that made the whole difference :3

Basically 

↳ “ To Melkor among the Ainur had been given the greatest gifts of power and knowledge, and he had a share in all the gifts of his brethren. He had gone often alone into the void places seeking the Imperishable Flame; for desire grew hot within him to bring into Being things of his own, and it seemed to him that Ilúvatar took no thought for the Void, and he was impatient of its emptiness. Yet he found not the Fire, for it is with Ilúvatar. But being alone he had begun to conceive thoughts of his own unlike those of his brethren. “ 

(alternative version of this Melkor chillin’ on a snowy afternoon here)

“Thus it came to pass that of the Ainur some abode still with Ilúvatar beyond the confines of the World; but others, and among them many of the greatest and most fair, took the leave of Ilúvatar and descended into it. But this condition Ilúvatar made, or it is the necessity of their love, that their power should thenceforward be contained and bounded in the World, to be within it for ever, until it is complete, so that they are its life and it is theirs. And therefore they are named the Valar, the Powers of the World.”

Snøhetta Vesttoppen // Sondre

What do you mean by prettier? Are you saying that you find me attractive, Suli?

as a mountain that wades in the sea

DON’T KINK SHAME ME BRO 

I worry for your safety and this is what I get back.

Then the bliss of the Valar was increased; for the lights of the Trees was holy and of great power, so that, if aught was good or lovely or of worth, in that light its loveliness and its worth were fully revealed; and all that walked in that light were glad at heart.