In Numenor, the Narn i Hin Hurin was adapted into a cycle of plays that were performed yearly and which had a Not-so-subtle symbolic (though not literal) conflation of Tol Morwen with Numenor.
There were also many offshoot operas, dances, artworks, etc, focusing on expanding one element or episode of the Narn and building up a very dense and elaborate system of idioms and visual references that became so ubiquitous that without context (say, if you were from a culture who wasn’t familiar with the Narn and therefore didn’t know the significance of a black weapon, a tool that talks, a hight above a rushing river, a chair from which one could have a far view, nakedness in the wild, a staring contest, a death by upright impalement, a prick of the foot, a shivering attack), a fair amount of numenorean literature, art, and discourse would have parts that were pretty baffling.
Tag: oooh
thought:
1: I imagine a substantial number of Green-Elves would have refused the summons of Mandos. The woods are their home, they’re not going to leave! If they’d wanted to go to Aman, they’d have gone while living! Also given the sorts of things that haunt Beleriand, they have plenty of good reason not to trust voices in the darkness. Which means:
2: There must have been many houseless spirits haunting the woods and the wild places of Beleriand when it was broken and sunk, which means:
3: They are now in the ocean? which means:
4 and most important: I really want a story of a Numenorean mariner on a night of storm encountering one of the spirits of the Laiquendi of Beleriand, twice-grieved and twice-enraged, having lost their life and their land and now haunting empty waters.
Just some thoughts and sketches; Sauron gives his power to the One Ring
yeap, I don’t think it was easy for him hhh
an older design for thuringwethil Ive now moved on from but still; as well as a sketch of Mairon as I see them in the very early times aka “just moved into angband”. i feel sauron would take full advantage of trying out all kinds of forms and appearance (while it was still possible :)) …). also, that awkard moment when “hey thuringwethil can I see your boobs for reference”; then copying gothmogs hairstyle (horn-style?)
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