‘Good Huan,’ said he, ‘guard her well!
In leafless field no asphodel,
in thorny thicket never a rose
forlorn, so frail and fragrant blows.

my guy. my dude. Beren. friend. are we talking about the same
fragile and fragrant rose who just kicked the ass 
of Sauron and is on her way to walk in to Angband, thrown down with a giant motherfucking wolf, sing Morgoth a little night-night song and then walk out again without fixing her hair? While you’re literally peeing yourself hiding under a table? 

is that

the same one

HE DID IT AGAIN THO

To Felagund then Beren said:
“Twere little loss if I were dead, (10)
and I am minded all to tell,
and thus, perchance, from this dark hell
thy life to loose. I set thee free
from thine old oath, for more for me
hast thou endured than e’er was earned.’ (15)

‘Ah, Beren, Beren hast not learned
that promises of Morgoth’s folk
are frail breath. From this dark yoke
of pain shall neither ever go,
whether Sauron learn our names or no, (20)
with his consent. Nay, more, I think,
yet deeper of torment we should drink,
knew he that son of Barahir
and Felagund were captive here,
and even worse if he should know (25)
the dreadful errand we did go.’

A devil’s laugh they ringing heard
within their pit. ‘True, true the word
I hear you speak,’ a voice then said.
’’Twere little loss if he were dead, (30)
the outlaw mortal. But the king,
the Elf undying, many a thing
no man could suffer may endure.”

FINROD 

YOU HAD ONE. JOB

G O D  I  L O V E  T H I S  S C E N E  S O  M U C H

the part where Beren and pals all dress up like orcs Wizard of Oz style and get brought before Sauron and he’s like
“So I heard Celegorm’s in charge of Nargothrond now”

and Finrod’s just like “EXCUSE U BUT I THINK YOU’LL FIND I LEFT ORODRETH IN CHARGe–”  *Beren stomps on his foot* “shutupshutupshutup

It’s basically that “how to find [person] in a crowd” meme and it’s the best

Song: The Wolf and the Swallow– Mikolai Stroinski 

‘Sleep, Oh unhappy, tortured thrall!
Thou woebegotten, fail and fall 
down, down from anguish, hatred, pain,
from lust, from hunger, bond and chain,
to that oblivion, dark and deep,
the well, the lightless pit of sleep!
For one brief hour escape the net,
the dreadful doom of life forget!’
~Luthien’s spell on Carcharoth, Canto XIII, The Lay of Leithian

dragonofmordor:

So, there are no plans right now to do anything fandom for May. But I was thinking of opening a general Silmarillion Prompt community where people could give and fill prompts. Just to try to get more fandom participation since activity seems down. But I want to gauge interest for, because there’s no point if there won’t be anyone interested.

Anyone think this is a good idea?

In some old post you had told that fractals are ainur catnip. Is this relevant to all ainur in you verse or just Sauron?

All my fractal-related headcanons are under the #Fractal Basilisk tag. 
(THE DEADLY. Fractal basilisk tag.) 

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 I mean… it’s 90% crack, but it has a couple of roots in actual headcanon theories? XD

Fractal hypnosis is mostly relevant to the mathematically/geometrically inclined Maiar (Langon is susceptible to ice fractals. He can go to rehab with Sauron.) 

Something in the Maiar programming for completing tasks, as well as identifying substances related to their origin, makes them want to track the iterations of the fractal until they find the end.
But it just keeps going! AHAHA WOW THERE IT GOES AGAIN JUST LIKE THE LAST 1,000,000,000 times! I wonder what it’ll do next!  …AMAZING!

I figure it’s both relaxing and stimulating and it engages 100% of their CPU. A fractally-susceptible maia will just kind of freeze up and blue screen until something snaps them out of it. Hence, “catnip”, because of the incapacitating effect on the senses.  

I don’t think Valar are affected by fractals at all, simply because they’re that much more familiar with the properties of Infinity.

“And this habitation might seem a little thing to those who consider only the majesty of the Ainur, and not their terrible sharpness; as who should take the whole field of Arda for the foundation of a pillar and so raise it until the cone of its summit were more bitter than a needle; or who consider only the immeasurable vastness of the World, which still the Ainur are shaping, and not the minute precision to which they shape all things therein.”

Melkor probably CAN see the entirety of the fractal down to subatomic particles, and just doesn’t care.
Like, “PFFFF, infinity-schminity. Why do you think I came back from exploring the Outer Dark? You think I’d still be here if there was something cooler happening anywhere else in creation? Also hey, guess what’s more interesting than math: ME.” 

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