Tag: tinfang

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