@theghostisametaphor tagged me last night, so from the latest Círdan fic:
He hoped that only pieces of driftwood returned to this beach to join the charcoal that lined it.
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Burnt Lighthouses – heget – The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth – J. R. R. Tolkien [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth – J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. – Works & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Círdan | Nowë
Additional Tags: Aftermath of Violence, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Angst and Feels, Third Kinslaying
Series: Part 10 of king of beech and oak and elm
Summary:
Círdan comes too late to the Havens of Sirion
If Henry Cavill and Ben Affeck do leave the DCEU, the people who have been so relentlessly and unfairly critical of the franchise, demanding that WB alter it to be more like the MCU and treating every rumor as absolute fact, have only themselves to blame for it.
“More like the MCU” yeah in terms of ORGANIZATION. In terms of patience and properly establishing characters and having authentic growth of the world. No one wanted the exact same style of scripting or themes or tone, no one asked for quips every 5 minutes. All any one ever wanted was for Kevin Tsujihara to stop demanding terrible reshoots and re-edits that butchered the narratives. They wanted WB to stop forcing absurb time contraints on production (you know that Suicide Squad was only giving 6 weeks for script writing?). They wanted them to actually establish major characters as whole in their own right before shoving them into team up movies out of nowhere. Dont blame the fans who were let down for the shambles caused by studio mismanagement.
Except that people did say that the tone needed to change on multiple occasions to be more like the MCU. I lost track of the amount of times I saw people praise MCU films for being ‘’fun’’ and saying how DC films were ‘’grimdark’’ and all that shit. To say that people didn’t demand a change in tone to more accurately reflect the MCU is just blatantly false. I was there. I read the reviews and the fan posts so don’t try and revise history on me.
That’s in addition to how people have and still believe every rumor and clickbait headline they come across, regardless of how absurd it is or if it’s been disproven. They’ve been saying Ben Affleck is going to be gone soon for a year and a half and he’s still here, the torrent of ‘’he looks tired at having to answer questions about the subject for the 678′ 998th time today so he must hate it and want to leave” nonsense notwithstanding.
Another thing that annoys me is that no one ever mentions the trade off of the MCU approach to organization. You must know that Ike Perlmutter, the guy who ran the MCU until 2015 and who still runs the shows, was an absolute tyrant who didn’t want female or non-white leads. A film like Birds Of Prey, being produced by a lead actress in the franchise, would never happen with an MCU approach to organization. That’s in addition to frequent complaints about formula and isolating directors like Edgar Wright as well as dropping James Gunn at the first hint of controversy, regardless of the source wo really shouldn’t have been trusted, to protect their image. If those are acceptable prices to you, that’s fine. But I’m sick of no one ever mentioning the flip side of the MCU approach or the benefits in going a different way.
I’m also not going to address the ‘’characters need solo films before a team-up’’ because that’s nonsense that the MCU has proven isn’t true on multiple occasions.
Warner Bros aren’t blameless, since they cut up BvS and JL worse than a victim on Dexter, but these films aren’t made in a vacuum. People said how they needed to ‘’listen to the fans’’ and listen to criticism. This is what it looks like when a franchise has to readjust itself in a major way, both in tone and power structure, to appease the arbitrary wishes of people on the internet who, frankly, don’t seem to know what they want most of the time. You can’t demand something and then complain about it as it happens.
An accurate summary of chapter 8 of “Of Ingwë Ingweron”
(warning for profanity and flippancy)
A lot of Godly War is happening off screen, and y’all won’t see the explosions because canon says so. Pretend it’s epic and awesome.
Elwë pre-name change and pimp coat is the embodiment of “snuggle into my large bosom” only replace that with manly pecs and killer abs, because he is so very manly and protective and a good big bro. He is all like “I will fight the fucking sky if it dares attack my lil bros”. Also, Olwë drools in his sleep but Elwë is a good bro and doesn’t mention it.
Scene Change!
So Oromë leveled up the elves’ tech tree before he skedaddled. They had enough EX Points for bows and arrows – Beleg Strongbow is crazy OP with them. Metallurgy too, but since Oromë sucks at that, they only unlocked copper. Because Mahtan has ‘copper lover’ as his second name. Look, the author is using canon for this shit and not making up everything as they go. And here’s Finwë. He’s the dumb friend, btw. Mahtan is going to invent unpaid internship apprenticeship because Finwë is bored. Don’t worry, Finwë repays Mahtan by foisting his brat on him. The author cribs an artifact from a Time Team episode. Finwë wakes up and realizes politics are a thing, and involve conflict between leaders’ egos. Already we have the divide that will become the Avari versus Eldar. Also more foreshadowing that while Finwë just wants everyone to get along, his decisions are only going to further divide people.
Scene Change!
Oh fucking finally, the main character! And here’s why chapter eight is titled “Of Sheep” – wait it isn’t? “Of Shepherds”? What the fuck is “Of the Shielding of Cuiviénen”? Was that really the best they could come up with?
Ingwë hates sheep. He hates sheep. He really hates sheep, m’kay. Mind control is used to keep the sheep from killing themselves, the dumb bastards.
Ravennë (Ingwë’s future waifu) walks up in her fly-est outfit. The author might have accidentally implied that she’s topless. Ingwë is surprised when she sauntered up but tries to play it off like he’s cool. Ravennë says that Ingwë is a soft boy who would make a great baby daddy and look after her kids. Ingwë gets pissed off because of fragile masculinity and the insult to his parents and because he’s a stupid boy that misses the hint that she wants to bang him. Ravennë disses another Vanya as a shallow ho. Ingwë doesn’t get the hint that she’s telling him to stay away from hot but stupid self-absorbed ho’s. Then Ravennë brings up this other random dude (a peer of hers) and how he just got married. Anvils, Ingwë. And that to get political standing, respect, and power an elf needs to get married. Ravennë is passive-aggressively upset that her opinions aren’t listened to and she wants them to, Are you getting the hint yet, Ingwë? JFC! This isn’t that AU, but she still wants to jump your bones, you broody elf!
Scene Change!
The author wants you to know that they have read a lot about the domestication of dogs. Oh, summary? Okay, wolves that aren’t as afraid of humans aka elves are the direct ancestor of dogs. Domestication leads to physical changes like neo-natality. The OG Stark elves find little wolf puppies and we can’t have dead puppies. Not even Morgoth likes dead puppies. So that’s why Finwë was originally at Elwë’s crib for dog food and then the plot of Chapter 3 happened. Yeah that shit way back, who cares moving on. Here’s the Primitive Elvish vocabulary word for dog. Now Elwë notices big doggies patrolling and goes !!! Big Doggos aren’t big doggos but angels protecting us! Thank you angels! Have a fish!
And canon says it was invisible spirits that the elves never knew about, but fuck that says the author, there were big doggies.
Flash forward to the end-ish of the Lay of Leithian. Elu Thingol is drunk off his ass and having a deep bonding moment with Huan the Dog.
Scene Change!
Finwë and Uinen. Seriously? WTF did the author pick this from a random Silm character generator? Okay. Finwë wakes up in the middle of the night –if ya’know they had nights– and here’s Uinen. She looks like an aquatic version of the nymph from Fantasia 2000 and is giant goddess who tells Finwë, “So yeah….your home is toast. Cuiviénen is gonna disappear because that’s how it goes. Ya can’t go back to the Garden of Eden. And Fëanor’s return to the purity of Cuiviënen is exactly the fascist bullshit 101 of an idealist past to lead to social regeneration that it’s supposed to be. Sweet dreams, peace out.”
i have twenty-three tiny wishes. but you probably won’t remember them all, so i put them all together into one.
i’d like to spend more time with you.
Sketches of Sauron confronting Lúthien🔥
I know maned wolves aren’t actually wolves…but they’re the most Sauron looking “wolf” if there ever was one. I’ve been messing with Sauron transformations tonight but I liked this one the best. I’ll share more soon~On Twitter: (x)
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– Do not use or repost my art (esp. on other sites) without my permission –
and since maned wolves smell and canonically the ainur smell either good or bad depending …perfect canon.
Sometimes fanfiction is a love letter to the original canon, sometimes it’s just that one telegram that says “Fuck you. Strongly worded letter to follow”.
Woot! Posted Chapter 8 of “Of Ingwë Ingweron” to AO3 and SWG to those that prefer to read the chapters elsewhere than tumblr (for me, AO3′s margin layouts greatly help me).
It was a little tempting to name the chapter “Of Sheep” or “Of Shepherds”, because that was a theme threading the vignettes, of how the Valar and Maiar are guarding and protecting the elves like a good shepherd (complete with flock guardian doggies).
After this it’s the nightmare of Ingwë, Finwë, and Elwë going to Valinor, then their return and the divide of the tribes and finally Ingwë’s duel.
Greatest in strength and deeds of prowess is Tulkas, who is surnamed Astaldo, the Valiant. He came last to Arda, to aid the Valar in the first battles with Melkor.
Nessa is the sister of Oromë, and she also is lithe and fleetfooted. Deer she loves, and they follow her train whenever she goes in the wild; but she can outrun them, swift as an arrow with the wind in her hair
And it is sung that in that feast of the Spring of Arda Tulkas espoused Nessa…, and she danced before the Valar upon the green grass of Almaren.
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