`If Gandalf would go before us with a bright flame, he might melt a path for you,’ said Legolas. The storm had troubled him little, and he alone of the Company remained still light of heart.
`If Elves could fly over mountains, they might fetch the Sun to save us,’ answered Gandalf.
because this is the best moment of trilogy and because book!Legolas is hella awesome
No but when glorfindel was reborn I like to imagine he just woke up naked and smack bang in the middle of some field, and then just wandered around until he go to rivendell and was like ‘hey hi how you doing what year is this’
elrond like standing there with a blush a he tries to explain and lindir stands behind him looking scared because glorfindel attacked some guards on the way in butt naked
I just want to say that in the entirety of the Silmarillion, my favorite line is, and always will be, this one:
“Then Beren sprang from before Celegorm full upon the speeding horse of Curufin that had passed him; and the Leap of Beren is renowned among Men and Elves”
These losers told multiple stories about how Luthien’s boyfriend jumped really far that one time yet don’t even tell us the name of Elros Tar-Minyatur’s wife I stg if that isn’t a flashing neon announcement that these histories are haphazard yarns with no sense of proportion full of gaping holes of unimaginably significant and influential backstory that everyone should feel invited to fill to your heart’s content I don’t know what is
the thing I also love about this is like. Do we think Beren and Luthien told anyone about “that time Beren jumped really high”? Do we think that even registered on the roster of shit dealt with that day. No! What has to have happened is Celegorm verbally shitposted for fifty years to the tune of that one long reblog chain about ~humans being freaky aliens who survive amputation and head injuries, and then to his immense dismay people listened while he did it
Maglor abruptly gets up from the table. “Where are you going, I haven’t even got to the part where Curufin shot him” “I HAVE TO SCORE AN ACTION SCENE”
We’ve all seen the Rio coverage, we all know that a man jumping kinda high > the personhood of women
fuckin,,,if i see 1 more post about the ‘helpless firstborn’ or w/e im gonna lose my shit. firstborn more like freakborn this one time one of em jumped like a gd frog or flea or something you know those things that can jump a million times their own size and it made it i shit you not across an entire clearing onto a goddamn horse and i was just there like dude wat,, are you fuckin kidding me with this???? imho i think all these stories abut them being ‘delicate’ and ‘prone to weakness’ and ‘get germs’ or wev are stories they make up themselves for pity or maybe to fuck wit us because this freak flea-ass motherfucker made a leap all the way onto my bros horse like it was nbd and this was after i thought i put the bastard dOWN
and then i come on this goddamn site and see sjws posting about edain rights and i,m like u kidding, yeah, RIGHTS TO GET OFF MY BROS GD HORSE AND GIVE MY COAT BACK smh
|| Absolutely inconsequential musings by Fëanor’s writer:
You remember the part in which Fëanor’s spirit is so fierce that sets his body aflame as it leaves it, yes? So I was considering how high that flame sprang, and how strong it was, because there were his sons about him and I could bet my collection of blings that at least one of them was holding him in some way. Like holding his body and such. Or a hand, or something.
…Did that flame slightly scorch any of them? Do any of them remember the heat or the faint burn?
You know what? I always thought he had ‘calmly’ burnt but after reading this, how could I ever have thought that? It was Fëanor dude, it must have been an EXPLOSION
so what I’m hearing is that those idiots missed the best opportunity to weaponize their dying dad
silvan elves that communicate in bird sounds and trills and tongue-clicking
silvan elves with dark skin so they can hide between foliage better
silvan elves who never met the ainur and as such properly worship them
devoted to nessa and yavanna and orome
silvan elves that literally talk to trees
silvan elves that paint their faces so they’re completely invisible when they want to
silvan elves who went south instead of west and now inhabit the forests of Harad
silvan elves that may not know how to write, but who knows the name of every stream, rock and valley in the area
Silvan elves who don’t worship the Valar because the Valar basically abandoned them when they didn’t want to come to Valinor.
Silvan elves who kicked Melkor’s ass in countless wars in the east and took on Ungoliant in the south, and whose deeds are remembered in epic song-cycles twenty times longer than Rumil and Pengolodh’s little pamphlets.
Here are some useful resources I’ve found while I’ve been in the community, so I thought I’d share! PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN IF YOU HAVE ANY! And please reblog and share!
References
askmiddlearth – A great blog where you can send in questions and receive answers regarding just about any aspect of the Legendarium.
coco.raceme – A collection of quotes, songs, and important passages from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, arranged by book and chapter.
Fish in Middle Earth – Did you ever want to know what kinds of fish there were in Middle Earth? No? You’ll probably end up reading this anyways. The curiosity will get to you.
henneth-annun – The HASA story archive has mostly moved to AO3 now, but this website still contains hundreds of timelines, character bios, quotes, object descriptions, and more.
silmarillionwritersguild – Essays, meta, biographies, and more – all about the plot and characters of the Silmarillion.
Languages
almare – Tumblr user almare has a great collection of Tolkien language resources, including a handy graphic of the relations between Elvish languages.
councilofelrond – A good resource for translations of canon texts, glossaries, conlang discussions, a dictionary, etc. Of particular interest is their Sindarin mutation chart, which is necessary pretty much whenever you’re stringing more than two Sindarin words together.
Hiswelókë’s – A delightfully thorough dictionary available in a variety of arrangements ( English-Sindarin, Sindarin-English, thematic, etc. ). Available in English, French, and German.
midgardsmal – The blog of David Salo, one of the people who worked on the languages in Peter Jackson’s Tolkien films.
realelvish – A handy phrasebook that provides categories for easy searches, dialects, pronunciation, and multiple translations of the same phrase. Includes fun categories, such as ‘in the bedroom’ and ‘on the internet’, as well as many others that are more in keeping with Tolkien’s tone.
sindarinlessons – A collection of rules, references, and explanations of Sindarin grammar.
your-sindarin-textbook – On this site, a duck teaches you Sindarin. What more could you want? Includes exercises and references.
Books
All the books in PDF – These two posts both contain links to Tolkien’s works and where you can find them online.
HoME reading order – tumblr user lintamande has put together a list of Tolkien’s texts beyond the Silmarillion, in case you were wanting to dip your toes into HoME but didn’t know where to begin. They also have a general Silm resource page that’s worth looking at, as well as all their meta.
Tolkien’s letters – A collection of many of Tolkien’s transcribed letters, useful for all those really obscure facts you need to check and to impress your friends.
Non-Tolkien
A shameless plug– I do my best to collect useful references, notes, and masterposts on writing, Tolkien, and more in my ‘references’ tag.
howtofightwrite– This blog contains discussions on weapons and how they’re used, as well as some particularly useful weapon primers that will give you the basics on the weapons your character uses.
Medieval references – A collection of a few useful references for medieval-type jobs, terms, and more.
Mood music – Themed music playlists for just about anything you could ever want to write.
Traveling – The methods of traveling in the Middle Ages, and the time it would require.
Adding links for the Lord of the Rings Family Project, which has the best set of genealogies hands down and I constantly reference it.
Ardalambion is a high quality language resource and has extensive wordlists. Good for obscure languages like Nandorin and Taliska. It’s more in-depth than a dictionary and has notes on in-universe and out-universe history for the languages.
Textual Ghosts Project, a list of unnamed and missing female characters from Tolkien’s works.
Notes: some of the book links don’t work any more.
The working link for OP’s resources tag is now here.
This is really useful! Thanks to OP for collecting these! (I totally looked at the fish essay.)
Mashups and Exports 