Month: November 2018

hi hi your art and designs and concepts and writing? A+++. You have caused me to like characters I do not like. I bow before your talent. Thank you!

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Wouldn’t it have been fun to keep Pharazon as a ring-wraith? As a servant? They say powerful men have an urge to be dominated.

Is that what they say? 

It is true that powerful men frequently have the urge to cede the semblance of dominance; “lead me on a chain, make me your servant, do what you will with me, tell me I am lowly”, they’ll beg, but will take up the reigns and whip again should your “dominance” not align with their desires. They do not know what it is to serve, or truly submit one’s self; they recognize no master but their own ego.

This is what makes them easy to manipulate; you have only to convince them that an idea is theirs, and they will follow it without question. Powerful men are ever ready to believe they are the origin of all their designs and fortunes.

I can say for certain that for a time it was entertaining to keep him as a servant, though he did not recognize himself as such. Our farce continued for nearly a century before his demise, and by then it had long since ceased to amuse me. At the end he was old, frightened and quivering in the face of his own mortality. He obeyed my every word without question, reliant on my decisions out of habit. I needed no ring to keep him a slave to my will, no more than a nursemaid would to keep an invalid dependent on her care.  

I hardly need such a servant for all eternity… Though if our fates had been reversed all those years ago, it might have been a different story. A brazen young conqueror at my disposal, at the height of his powers, in control of that glittering sea of an army… such a hand would indeed have made a proud seat for one of the nine. 

thoughts on Maedhros (sorry. I have a one tracked mind at the moment)

The more traumatized, the better. >:3

I like my Maedhros with a cold fire burning under him, weary yet sleepless, stoic but precariously perched on the knife’s edge of mania. He maintains control over his surroundings in order to maintain control of the fractures inside him; that frenzied loss of Self he fears more than any army of orcs, more than a thousand deaths, though it comes for him every night. Discipline is his anchor, his raft in the storm. He wishes it were love– he would not be alive without it, and it mends him when he cracks, but it cannot bear him up alone anymore. 

It is love that makes him desperate, love that curdles into fear and viciousness when danger threatens– and it always threatens. He attacks in order to protect; that is what he tells himself. It is easier to charge than to defend, and less painful in failure. But there is a never-ending supply of enemies, and each loss takes something more from him, until there is nothing left to protect at all but a legacy, and then not even that. 

Hi! I just wanted to ask, do you have any headcanons for what happened to the first elves to awaken? Specifically, Imin, Tata, and Enel? Thank you for your reply in advance!

I….. don’t! :O  I’m shocked and horrified by my own lack of headcanons!

I have some vague ideas about the first awakened elves and their lives before meeting the Valar, surviving in the dark world with only terrible creatures and the stars– but nothing I could really pick details out of yet, no real firm grasp of individual personalities. Most of my headcanons about that whole epoch have to do with Melkor and Sauron’s thoughts on the newly awakened elves, which can be summarized as “raw materials”. 

I know this is a rich vein that other writers and artists get a lot of inspiration from, and I must defer to them for the time being. If I get any more specific headcanons on the first elves, I’ll try to put them on paper for you. 

For His Dark Majesty – Thoughts on lesser Umaiar running amok in the Throne Room? For Lord Thû – Thoughts on lesser Umaiar running amok in the Foundry/Forge?

“I think that sounds like business as usual. Isn’t that what throne rooms are for? What’s the point of being Lord of Arda if you can’t throw frenzied, orgiastic parties in your own living room on a daily basis? What is this, Taniquetil? Who do you think I am??”

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“Don’t.” 

Have you seen Lindsay Ellis’s magnificent two-part video essay (which became a trilogy at the last minute GET IT) about the Hobbit trilogy? -Some-Dude-with-a-Cat, who has quit Tumblr for the moment

I HAVE AND SHE’S BRILLIANT 

(if you look very very closely, for a split second you can actually see some of my ancient ass melkor concept art in the google-image search she does when referencing…. dark lord shipping. is this fame? have i peaked? I think I’ve peaked guys) 

Hello! I know Tolkien left it open to interpretation what happens to human souls after death but in your personal opinion what’s the deal? What are your headcanons about it?

This is a tough one! The boring answer is that my headcanon for the fate of mortals after death in Tolkien-verse is…. pretty much just whatever happens to mortals after death. 

More specifically, I think the humans and other mortals of Middle Earth have a variety of beliefs about what happens to their spirits after death but no one knows for sure. (…Of course, the one MAJOR difference between Arda and the IRL is that human souls in Tolkien-verse can manifestly be detained from the afterlife, and otherwise bound to certain tasks or fates. But temporary postponements aside–)

I think the ambiguity of what happens after death, the mystery of it, is an important unknown; it’s the biggest question mark, the only question mark that matters to many characters and philosophies. Life and Death are exclusively the province of Eru, who remains silent; everyone else is fallible, childlike facing the universe, including the Valar.  I think the fate of mortals being a mystery, and conversely, the source of life being a mystery, is invisibly at the heart of the Silmarillion and its dramas. 

I do have a second answer that’s more story-specific, and that is that the Arda of the books is a trial-run of Earth, and that after the foretold Second Music rolls around, everyone who endured the first cycle will have a second run as mortals. They may not be the same specific people they once were, but rather the same collective energy and souls, variously rehoused. I’m trying very hard not to say “the lifestream”, but it’s like…. the lifestream. This is the Story Specific answer because I really really really need that human-ainur redemption arc. >_>

…And on a like SUPER META and personal level, I think human spirits are withdrawn back to the source of the Fire, where they cease to be isolated entities and return to a collective and holistic state of Being; not separate yet not alone, unburdened by whatever transpired during their lives. In truth, a gift– but only once one leaves behind the value of ‘selfhood’.     

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Imagine an elf is given a job to do at a human institution. The humans think elves don’t need bathroom breaks, since they know they can hold it for days, but this elf has been traveling to reach their job, and has already been holding it to the point they are in pain. They ask for a break, but their job is important and time sensitive, so they admit they can still hold it when asked. After a full day of work, the elf tries to reach the bathroom in time, but they were never told where it is.

See, what I love most about Piss Elf Anon is that it’s not a question. There’s nothing actionable about this post, there’s not even a punchline. Just. 

“Imagine”. 

:’) it gives so much, and asks for so little in return. 

melianinarda:

The Silmarillion aesthetic |
Ingwë Ingweron | The High King of all the Elves



Ingwë is the King of the Vanyar and the High King of all the Elves. He was the leader of the first Kindred of Elves of the Vanyar tribe and his name means “first one, Chief” in Quenya.


Ingwë was reckoned as High King of all the Eldalië, the Elves of the Great Journey, and because of this he is called Ingwë Ingweron, the “Chief of the Chieftains”. He lived in Taniquetil, ruling from beneath Manwë High King of Arda.


amazing art (detail) by Choistar

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mediumaevum:

The 7th-century Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered in July 1939, on the eve of the Second World War.

One of the most important discoveries from Anglo-Saxon England, the undisturbed burial produced many significant objects. Examples of exquisite craftsmanship like these stunning gold cloisonné accessories show how advanced Anglo-Saxon metalwork was by this time.

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