December 2014 – Page 10 – MisbehavingMaiar: Tumblr Archive

irmomasterofvisions:

irmomasterofvisions:

//SILM-FANDOM! Heed my call! I have a person that needs recruiting to our noble cause, but I lack the one thing I can bait her with- so without further ado, I need all your elve slashfiction, and es much Elrond|Elros angst as you can muster 😀

(And if someone provides Angbang we might pull her into the deepest of ravines)

//reblogging for the evening crowd.

Help brother Irmo corrupt an innocent youth!

Melkor wearing a fashionable lily pad on his head (????)

(I was testing some old paints and this happened)

Is it Secret Santa Day yet

I am eager to do the Santaing

cinemagorgeous:

The Dolomites by Jerome Berbiger.

Source: cinemagorgeous

houseofhaleth:

curufinwefeanaro replied to your post: Going to see Battle of the Five Armies…

|| I will entertain your scholar self with questions about whether Húrin ever had an indigestion of elven pastries.

Frequently. Every single time he blamed something else, because it can’t be the elven food, elves are awesome.

After four or five times he stopped denying it to himself, but denied it all the more loudly to Huor, and kept eating them – and getting indigestion – to prove a point, dammit.

This delights me

thelothbroks:

“Your son will live beyond twenty years, the axe and sword will not easily got him.”

Source: thelothbroks

Source: priest-athelstan

honor-among-thieves:

Taniquetil by megatruh

Source: deviantart.com

misbehavingmaiar:

Yo, Finrod is a straight up cutie

Finrod’s like “You humans are super adorable but I have to go home and feed my cat now :’D ”

and Bëor’s just like “OH ME ME ME CAN I COME WITH YOU”

Finrod: “Aw! Sure you can come with me!” *dazzling Arafinwëan smile**

Bëor: “…Can I come with you forever?”

Finrod: “Gosh!” *blushu blushu*

Bëor: *making silent yeaaaaaah faces and fist pumping to his Edain buddies, who are just like: YEAH BOY GET IT*

Yo, Finrod is a straight up cutie

More pondering while listening to the Silm Audiobook:

Melkor has a vested interest in keeping Men from becoming friends with the elves– he has one of his spies (imhc, either Sauron or Langon) impersonate one of the chieftains in order to spread dissent and plant the idea that “there is room in the world” for both Men and Orcs, if the elves will only let them be.

And yet, when that plan yields only moderate success, Melkor goes and sends an orc raid against the (later) People of Haleth, aaaaallllll the way in East Beleriand, which… kind of undermines the message of his original propaganda?

Why would Melkor do this directly after planting the idea that Orcs and Men could mutually ignore each other and keep to their respective territories? (I don’t buy the idea that he just lost his temper– not on this occasion anyway. XD) I mean, he could have kept hostilities between Men and Orcs to a minimum, while stirring up trouble between men and elves and just waiting for tensions to reach a boiling point on their own. (That tactic has worked well for him in the past. See entry: The Sons of Finwë.)

To me, this move makes sense if you imagine Melkor trying to rush things. He can’t afford to wait for generations of men to live and die in the service and camaraderie of elves before the inevitable inter-species messiness starts; he needs to drive a wedge in NOW, while everyone is still wary of each other.

“So, Men still think they can get cozy with the Eldar in Beleriand, huh? Well, let’s show them just how much elves -really- care about the safety and wellbeing of non-elf vassals!”

To make his point, he sends an orc raid against Haleth’s kin in Caranthir’s lands– and Lo and Behold, they lose their chief and take heavy casualties before Caranthir shows up with the cavalry.
It sort of works? Haleth does basically give the finger to the elves after that, leading her people independent of elven rule, and going on to live a long and noble life giving side-eye to Thingol and stabbing spiders/orcs.

Of course, since Melkor’s plans never really go like he wants them to, the fact that the Edain aren’t 100% Elf-Friendly doesn’t actually make them less of a threat to Orcs, nor does it make them less wary of Angband.
But who knows? Maybe a united Caranthir/Haleth front would have gone on to be a bigger threat to Angband in the long run than an independent Haleth in Brethil, and Caranthir dubiously allied with the Folk of Uldor?

faessbender:

chanel métiers d’art 2014/15 paris—salzburg collection.
making of.

The Ring of Barahir Dilemma

There are a lot of cool designs out there! 🙂 I just thought it was interesting to see how various different artists have tackled the design based on Tolkien’s description.

Having the snakes meet under the flower crown, with “one upholding and the other devouring” really plays hell with the symmetry of your ring. >:I (I’m still trying to find a unique take on it for my own design…)

It’s worth keeping in mind that this ring is old as balls. Even with your classy Noldor craftsmanship, I doubt that a lot of frills and raised jewels would have weathered the ages intact. I prefer the designs that look like they could have been worn by a line of sword-wielding Edain badasses all the way from Barahir down to Aragorn without snagging on their tunics!