Please draw pre-march-2013 Phobs’ redhead Sauron and Minas Morgul. It’s a truest Sauron’s concept.

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I looked down, and whispered

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(…With tremendous apologies to Phobs, whose current Sauron I like just fine, better than I like the 2013 version, which is COMPLETELY BESIDE THE POINT because it doesn’t matter what any of us think, it’s an artist prerogative to change and update their character designs however and whenever they like, and it’s fucking rude to imply otherwise. “Truest concept” my ass.) 

Okay using the submission button for this because I have a feeling it’s gonna get hella long: 

My personal associations with your KICKASS Women of Arda playlist [Warning, this is extremely 3rd-Age Northern Dúnedain centric because for the past six months basically all I’ve written is Dunedain femslash OOPS]: 

Ebudae and Tartara Women Work Song are both for my Northern Dúnedain working ladies. Albatross screams Elwing to me (and may or may not have inspired my personal headcanon that an albatross is in fact the white bird she turns into) but I really love thinking of it as Miriel too. 

Women King for me is an OC of mine, Aragorn’s paternal grandmother (called Adanel, after the Wisewoman), who in my fic-‘verse takes over as Chieftain of the Dunedain while Aragorn is off being raised in Rivendell. 

Even Gods Do is another OC association for me—Aragorn’s cousin/Halbarad’s sister, Nethril, who grows up to basically take over for the Dunedain when Aragorn is off doing the Thorongil thing [women taking over the Dunedain when Aragorn is otherwise absent is a….thing in my stories :3].

We overlap on Wildfire! it’s very Nerdanel/Feanor for me as well. I love Galadriel as Gold Dust Woman too. Bells for Her and Little Earthquakes are both Idril for me, for a reason I can’t quite place. 

Daffodil Lament is Gilraen for me, though GOD it is possibly the most Aredhel song I have ever heard. *cries forever*

 YAAAAS YAAAS YESSss omg MUSIC RESPONSE FRIEND ❤ ❤ ❤

*chin hands* I seriously need more ass kicking Edain matriarchs in my life. It is known. 

mustachio-furioso:

asofterbucky:

she had curves in all the right places, and all the left places, also, and in places forgotten by time, and in places known only by dwarven scholars

The curves betrayed Isildur, to his death. And some curves that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend, legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, those curves passed out of all knowledge.

myrkskog:

So, in the published version of the Silm, the passage were Mahtan is introduced sounds like this:

“While still in his early youth he (Fëanor) wedded Nerdanel, the daughter of a great smith named Mahtan, among those of the Noldor most dear to Aulë; and of Mahtan he learned much of the making of things in metal and in stone.”

But in an earlier draft it sounded like this:

“Her father, Mahtan, was a great smith, and among those of the Noldor most dear to the heart of Aule. Of Mahtan Nerdanel learned much of crafts that women of the Noldor seldom used: the making of things of metal and stone.”

So are you telling me we could have had a version of the Silmarillion where Mahtan was introduced through his relationship with his daughter? A male character introduced and defined through a pivotal female character in his life?? What is this brilliance!? But instead we got the boring, standard version where the female character is completely ignored in favor of defining Mahtan through a male character whom is a lot less familiar and important to him? 

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