Plum-hot the anvil, lava, the volcano’s rise, ours
is a sky of yellow crumb and ash. Amorphous, still I am consuming,
yea and nay, and consumed,
but shaken loose: empress
of undertone, perilous foam,
creek in its natal dark.
(via zhugeliangs)
@calendille said: Hi! Can you please draw Fëanor meeting Aulë as a kid, with shiny jewels and pretty trinkets?
Here you go!
Here are some useful resources I’ve found while I’ve been in the community, so I thought I’d share! PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN IF YOU HAVE ANY! And please reblog and share!
References
askmiddlearth – A great blog where you can send in questions and receive answers regarding just about any aspect of the Legendarium.
coco.raceme – A collection of quotes, songs, and important passages from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, arranged by book and chapter.
Fish in Middle Earth – Did you ever want to know what kinds of fish there were in Middle Earth? No? You’ll probably end up reading this anyways. The curiosity will get to you.
henneth-annun – The HASA story archive has mostly moved to AO3 now, but this website still contains hundreds of timelines, character bios, quotes, object descriptions, and more.
silmarillionwritersguild – Essays, meta, biographies, and more – all about the plot and characters of the Silmarillion.
Languages
almare – Tumblr user almare has a great collection of Tolkien language resources, including a handy graphic of the relations between Elvish languages.
councilofelrond – A good resource for translations of canon texts, glossaries, conlang discussions, a dictionary, etc. Of particular interest is their Sindarin mutation chart, which is necessary pretty much whenever you’re stringing more than two Sindarin words together.
dwarrowscholar – Contains everything from lessons to a truly massive Khuzdul dictionary. If you have a basic understanding of Neo-Khuzdul, you can also make use of the translation tool.
Hiswelókë’s – A delightfully thorough dictionary available in a variety of arrangements ( English-Sindarin, Sindarin-English, thematic, etc. ). Available in English, French, and German.
midgardsmal – The blog of David Salo, one of the people who worked on the languages in Peter Jackson’s Tolkien films.
realelvish – A handy phrasebook that provides categories for easy searches, dialects, pronunciation, and multiple translations of the same phrase. Includes fun categories, such as ‘in the bedroom’ and ‘on the internet’, as well as many others that are more in keeping with Tolkien’s tone.
sindarinlessons – A collection of rules, references, and explanations of Sindarin grammar.
your-sindarin-textbook – On this site, a duck teaches you Sindarin. What more could you want? Includes exercises and references.
Books
All the books in PDF – These two posts both contain links to Tolkien’s works and where you can find them online.
HoME reading order – tumblr user lintamande has put together a list of Tolkien’s texts beyond the Silmarillion, in case you were wanting to dip your toes into HoME but didn’t know where to begin. They also have a general Silm resource page that’s worth looking at, as well as all their meta.
On Fairy Stories – One of Tolkien’s most-referenced essays.
Tolkien’s letters – A collection of many of Tolkien’s transcribed letters, useful for all those really obscure facts you need to check and to impress your friends.
Non-Tolkien
A shameless plug – I do my best to collect useful references, notes, and masterposts on writing, Tolkien, and more in my ‘references’ tag.
howtofightwrite – This blog contains discussions on weapons and how they’re used, as well as some particularly useful weapon primers that will give you the basics on the weapons your character uses.
Medieval references – A collection of a few useful references for medieval-type jobs, terms, and more.
Mood music – Themed music playlists for just about anything you could ever want to write.
Traveling – The methods of traveling in the Middle Ages, and the time it would require.
Adding links for the Lord of the Rings Family Project, which has the best set of genealogies hands down and I constantly reference it.
Ardalambion is a high quality language resource and has extensive wordlists. Good for obscure languages like Nandorin and Taliska. It’s more in-depth than a dictionary and has notes on in-universe and out-universe history for the languages.
Textual Ghosts Project, a list of unnamed and missing female characters from Tolkien’s works.
Notes: some of the book links don’t work any more.
The working link for OP’s resources tag is now here.
This is really useful! Thanks to OP for collecting these! (I totally looked at the fish essay.)
// Cleaned some of the spambots out of my followers, and based on the remaining numbers the bad news is that most of you appear to have been cunningly programmed A.I.s. You may not even know you are secretly a spam bot. I suggest all of you immediately try to solve a captcha.
//Yes. 100% yes. Make him prove his strength by having him punch a silmaril in two. Make him prove his persistence by hugging Arien for a millennium. Tulkas will do everything and anything when he’s challenged, it’s like a magic word.
He is excited to help! 😀
1) is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?
Oh, always. In this fandom, it’s… kinda my main one. The one I started the blog for. The one that’s trying to be a graphic novel. That one. >_>;;
It’s been consistently delayed for several reasons, including not-insignificant mental health recovery, but also because it’s just dang complicated and I want to do it right. I’m still learning as an artist and a writer, and the temptation to “get better” before I work on the magnum opus is strong. Plus, it’s intimidating because I’d like to initiate people into my OTP, and I’d like for it to be at least engaging and convincing for people who don’t ship it, or ship it in a vastly different way. ( I will give you three guesses as to which ship it is it is angbang literally no one thought it was anything else). It also involves solidifying my headcanons for an absolutely ridiculous scope of text. I am small and scared, there is so much timeline. Help.
8) favorite genre to write
To the surprise of no one, it’s fantasy/sci-fi! The more political intrigue and world building, the better. I could probably swing historical fiction if I had the right subject matter, given that it’s a genre that caters to my need to obsessively research minutiae and reconstruct character personalities from minimal details. OOH! also: Poetry.
1)
is there a story you’re holding off on writing for some reason?2)
what work of yours, if any, are you the most embarrassed about existing?3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?
4) favorite character you’ve written
5) character you were most surprised to end up writing
6) something you would go back and change in your writing that it’s too late/complicated to change now
7) when asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?
8) favorite genre to write
9) what, if anything, do you do for inspiration?
10) write in silence or with background noise? with people or alone?
11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?
12) your weaknesses as an author
13) your strengths as an author
14) do you make playlists for your current wips?
15) why did you start writing?
16) are there any characters who haunt you?
17) if you could give your fledgling author self any advice, what would it be?
18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?
19) when it comes to more complicated narratives, how do you keep track of outlines, characters, development, timeline, ect.?
20) do you write in long sit-down sessions or in little spurts?
21) what do you think when you read over your older work?
22) are there any subjects that make you uncomfortable to write?
23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?
24) have you ever become an expert on something you previously knew nothing about, in order to better a scene or a story?
25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of
siadea
replied to your post “siadea
replied to your photo “Silm Prompt: Luthien and Thuringwethil–…”
http://www.koryoswrites.com/nonfiction/the-confusing-evolution-of-bat-echolocation/
That should have had an explanation attached, not just the link. fail tumblr. LOOK AT WEIRD BAT FACES, is the explanation.
IT’S FULL OF BATS AND SCIENCE 8D
crocordile
replied to your post “ameliarating
replied to your post “omg. So. I know it’s Mae-thros…”
OH MY GOD WES IT’S DEFITNILY AN L I AM LAUGHING WHO TROLLED THE DARK LORD ON HIS DARK THRONE
MY ENEMIES ARE EVERYWHERE JULIANA
EVERYWHERE
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