Month: January 2018

mythopoeticreality:

Just to add in more about my favorite Semi-Canonical,Totally Obscure Elf Who More People Should Talk About, Tinfang is awesome. I mean okay, he is mentioned in three poems as far as I know, the Lay of Lethien, Over Old Hills and Far Away, and a poem titled after himself called Tingang Warble. And I mean? In basically everything written about him the characterization is basically the same: a Fae like being who spends the night dancing and playing his flute for the stars and moon? (and he is, in the earliest versions of his character Half-Fae, which is also very awesome) I mean, look at this guy for yourself: 

O the hoot! O the hoot!
How he trillups on his flute!
O the hoot of Tinfang Warble!
Dancing all alone,
Hopping on a stone,
Flitting like a fawn,
In the twilight on the lawn,
And his name is Tinfang Warble!
The first star has shown
And its lamp is blown
to a flame of flickering blue.
He pipes not to me,
He pipes not to thee,
He whistles for none of you.
His music is his own,
The tunes of Tinfang Warble!

Pretty much Tinfang is sort of this pied piper/peter pan type trickster figure, and I kind of can’t help but love the image of him darting about through Middle Earth outsmarting and outwitting orcs and kind of making a name for himself? I mean, imagine the legend building around him. What if Tinfang became some major folkloric figure for the elves – especially the Sindar and the Green Elves – during the war against Morgoth? Something Akin to Robin Hood, though perhaps a bit more mystical? there is seriously so much potential in his character and I just…I just love this guy so much.

this is a truly delightful suggestion and I Am For It

misbehavingmaiar:

Palette Meme: The Iron Hell– RivkaZ 2015

 *wheeeeze* DONE.  _(:p 」∠)_

This is what I picture Angband looking like from the top-down. Most of the fortress is subterranean, making this not even the upper most third of the map. Near the top of the center spire is where you will find Hurin’s chair. (Other above-ground structures that didn’t make it into the picture:  Dragon hatchery and stable, Maethros’s shackle, and secret passage ways.)

I want my Angband to look like it was a solid, fugly square brick of a fortress that has been retrofitted with spare Utumno-parts and upgraded to suit all Melkor’s Beleriand-Conquering needs. 

 It’s a mix of designs: impossibly grand scaled pseudo-gothic architecture (to let you know that a Vala lives there), with battlements that are still the old no-frills anti-Oromë defense system left over from the Utumno days, all stuck in a blender with a bunch of lopsided spikes and melty Giger-esque doom. 

Sauron provided the architecture and floor plan (complete with indoor plumming and practical considerations like “where do we put all the orcs”), and Melkor provided the asymmetry, the underground caverns, and the carelessly assembled volcanic hellscape.

misbehavingmaiar:

“…I’ve also created a variety of music boxes and automata in my time… Take your pick!

It’s a weakness of mine; reproducing natural mechanics with engineered devices. I have quite a collection by now, all gathering dust in my workshop. 
The war effort has made it impractical to spend much time on frivolous devices, no matter how fascinating they are to build, or soothing to watch.”

Dear Sauron, I’m asking you this question because I fear your master would smite me for it. Do you and Melkor ever sleep? I assume Ainur don’t need to. But did that change for Melkor once he was trapped in a single form?

misbehavingmaiar:

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You are correct, on both counts. 

Ainur do not need sleep, yet neither are we barred from it. The Eruhini require it to maintain energy and sanity. For us, it is merely a pleasant reprieve from the flow of time, a chance to lose ourselves in memory, dwell in Irmo’s realm to gain inspiration, clarity. (As I understand it, Irmo has never banned my Master from his realm– not even Manwë can command Irmo to close the dreaming.)

For Melkor it is different. His wounds are great. They do not heal, and they wear on him and his remaining energy. He must sleep; it is the last and only method of rejuvenation left to him. 

 I do not know what my Master dreams of, only that he sometimes glows golden as he did in the Beginning… it fades when he wakes. I have not told him this. It would… I do not think any good would come of it. 

You may have heard that the Dark Lord never removes the iron crown, nor rests
his eyes. For obvious reasons, we prefer it this way– it is a most beneficial rumor. But nay; the crown rests beside him while he sleeps, in a chamber with no doors or windows, far within the heart of Thangorodrim. Only he has the secret of its entry.
The room is black, draped in silk and lined with the hides of giant beasts from the days before the sun and moon. It is more a nest than a bed chamber. 

I have been there, when he allows me to stay with him. He is oft restless, and though exhausted, cannot find silence in his own mind. I do my best to comfort him. 

i don’t know when you changed your blog title (probably i while ago im unobservant) but i approve on many levels, including: melkor is in fact a great synonym for “bomb”

XD :SLDKjf;lkj  NO YOU’RE GOOD, I CHANGED IT LAST NIGHT. I updated some of my sidebar info and added a ko-fi link, etc etc BUT YES agreed 10/10,  would straddle like a cowboy while falling a thousand miles to our explosive deaths

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