Month: August 2015

kassmodeus:

AT LAST, here are the things i have drawn for the supremely talented emilyenrose‘s horrid story of elven suffering!!!! this collab was born out of many hours shrieking at each other about orcs and our vast collective transhumanism boner. tbh I can only apologise to our other friends.

you can read the fic here. PLEASE ENJOY. It is a story about Maedhros having an unpleasant time, or, if you prefer, about Morgoth entertaining two hot redheads. 

fic also on the ao3

VAST COLLECTIVE TRANSHUMANISM BONER

yes i am here for this 

Source: aeromachia

ingvildschageart:

Mairon – Look me in the eye

Finally a more than successful sketch, a publishable one no less! I am very happy with it, as I’ve been wanting to draw this kind of drawing for a long time, but have not had the ability, so here it is, and here he is. Mairon, known under the name of Sauron, and I am absolutely in love with him!

niiiiice piercings *3*

Source: ingvildschageart

lucifers-cuvette:

trashofvenice:

Silmarillion friends! Please come and discuss with me the question that has been bugging me since yesterday: CURRENCY.

Do the elves have a currency system? Is there one in Beleriand at all?? Do humans and dwarves have currency, but the elves choose to opt out??? I need to know.

I was harassing goblin-bee about this last night and we agreed that probably the Elves at least have an elaborate trade system of jewels etc going on (and that Caranthir gets introduced to currency by the dwarves and feels like all his birthdays have come at once, and then tries to get all the rest of the Noldor to adopt it, with zero success. It’s the only thing he and Finrod have in common), but at some point SOMEONE has to have created coins. They’re certainly in circulation by the third age!

I feel like it is probable that currency was adopted second-age onwards, but I am fascinated by the how’s and the why’s of actual life in Beleriand, because we don’t get much of it. It’s all very well if you’re an elf prince sulking around your misery fortress, but what about everyone else! I want to know if the dwarves had an amazing sophisticated mint and were laughing at the elves the whole time. I want to know if men developed something out of outright frustration at constant war almost definitely ruining their crop rotation. I have so many questions!!!

Given that Tolkien concocted words in Qenya (the prototype for Quenya) for coins (kulusta = gold coin; telpilin = silver coin – see Qenya Lexicon if you can get your hands on it ), one might extrapolate that at some point along the line,  currency might have been used among the Elves.  At any rate, I’ve run with that, i.e., there’s currency used in my interpretation of Ost-in-Edhil and Eregion, and presumably in Second Age Lindon, too.

Also, have a look at the erstwhile Darth Fingon’s Linguistic Foolery articles on the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild for all sorts of fun Elvish words!  Plenty of fodder for fannish extrapolations there! :^)

Maedhros: *loses Caranthir in battle*
Maedhros: ANGROD, OUR COUSIN, is welcome here. He says Elu Thingol gives us leave to dwell in Hithlum and –
Caranthir: LET NOT THE SONS OF FINARFIN RUN HITHER AND THITHER WITH THEIR TALES TO THE DARK ELF IN HIS CAVES! WHO MADE THEM OUR SPOKESMEN TO DEAL WITH HIM?AND THOUGH THEY BE COME INDEED TO BELERIAND, LET THEM NOT SO SWIFTLY FORGET THAT THEIR FATHER IS A LORD OF THE NOLDOR, THOUGH THEIR MOTHER BE OF OTHER KIN!
Maedhros: There he is.
Angrod: *far in the distance* FUCK YOU TOO, TOMATO FACE

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