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It’s very much this exuding of triumph and pride and that the healing doesn’t erase the past trauma but here in Valinor it’s transformed into beauty once more. Once more she is Maktame of the beautiful arms (and the language shift to Mahtamë) and part of her beauty is that past. And that Ingwë worked to make this happen, so that she is now a dowager queen in lace enjoying herself on the athletic field -and that prosperity and healing and safety is now for all his people.
If I’m still on “Of Ingwë”, a confession then – I don’t know where I should end it. But if I do go all the way to the founding of Valmar instead of splitting it into sequels, there is this line from close to that ending:
Mahtamë came out onto the field, her arms uncovered. The silvery lacework of scars still webbed across them, fainter perhaps, and matched the dress she wore, which was gifted from the Valie Estë, a garment soft and grey, floating like mist and trimmed in lace.
I’m at a stalled period on my projects- have more than one in a holding pattern- but let’s go with Of Ingwë :
The intentions of the unfathomable Eru Ilúvatar are inscrutable even to the godly powers that served His purpose in forming this world, giving shape and substance to this planet upon which Eru now focuses, His omnipotent attention concentrating on a finite point, a seemingly inconsequential location. It is the shoreline of a vast saline lake, one whose dimensions and water volume would qualify it for the moniker of inland sea. Eru Ilúvatar sings music into the repetitive sounds of the lapping waves against that muddy shoreline. In that gentle wash, silt is eroded away, and the lake water begins to pull away – as tides will eventually do, when the moon is created.
Slowly, the new creations are revealed.
Six long inert shapes lie in the mud. There is no moon to illuminate their features, only dim starlight. Bodies they are, the First Children of Eru Ilúvatar, and the Creator of Everything breathes out, and the sound of this exhale awakens the elves.
gsut:
- What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*
- Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*
- Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?
- Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*
- Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*
- Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?*
- Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*
- Have you received anon hate? What about?*
- Most disliked character(s)? Why?
- Most disliked arc? Why?
- Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
- Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
- Unpopular opinion about XXX character?
- Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
- Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?
- If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?
- Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…
- Does not shipping something ‘popular’ mean you’re in denial and/or biased?
- What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
- What is the purest ship in the fandom?
- What are your thoughts on crack ships?
- Popular character you hate?
- Unpopular character you love?
- Would you recommend XXX to a friend? Why or why not?
- How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?
- Most shippable character?
- Least shippable character?
*several of these questions are taken from a list that was not rebloggable
please guys send me asks and give me a chance to spread salt instead of committing murder
who else started saying “yall” ironically but then it became part of your normal vocabulary and now you can’t stop?
#i started sying it unironically and deliberately because english needs a second person plural
(Nicked from iambickilometer):
drop one of these bad boys in my askbox and i will post, without editing
- FIRST — the first two sentences of my current project
- LAST — the most recently written two sentences of my current project
- NEXT — the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.
- [insert prompt here] — you post a prompt, and i’ll write three sentences based on that prompt, set in the same time/setting as my current project
- THE END — i’ll make up an ending, or post the ending if i’ve written it
- BEFORE THE BEGINNING — three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project
- POV — something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective
being a fan of your own ocs is frustrating because you literally have to rely on your own productivity for any content
- yep, it’s an Elf
- a lot of page time given to this character
- for a time was High King of his people
- the oldest of several brothers
- the next eldest brother had to take over leadership when said elf was unwillingly separated from his people
- very very tall (was known for it)
- very good-looking
- with a rare hair color btw
- attention is called in-text to the fey light of his eyes
- has a temper but can sometimes control it
- did have a scene where he naively believed in good intentions/did not see betrayal
- has an on-screen personality; it has flaws and nuances
- acknowledges his mistakes and repents
- throws shade, makes dismissive comments, he’s sassy
- Don’t need the Valar, thanks but no thanks
- left Valinor, lives rest of his life in Beleriand
- feared and hated by Morgoth
- fights against Morgoth’s armies sent personally to destroy him or his family
- Neither Morgoth nor any of the Dark Lord’s forces ever kill him
- allied with the dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost and fought a large battle against Morgoth together
- gifts were exchanged with the dwarves
- Also allied with other elves
- Finrod visits him
- maintains a rather large network of political allies
- including a deep personal friendship with another elven king
- Said king dies in that large battle, was too late to come to his friend’s rescue
- so instead he slaughters hundreds of orcs in revenge and then has to flee to safety
- Also allies with humans
- but doesn’t have as close a relationship with them as some other Noldor princes and their Edain
- one human male will go live with him and be treated with love and honor
- quasi-adopted mortal son
- makes a terrible Oath involving the recovery of a Silmaril
- eventually does gain possession of a Silmaril
- this leads to his death
- tragic
- his brother survives him and spends the rest of his life next to a seashore
I’m describing Elu Thingol, btw. Not Maedhros
Thank you! Some of these were favorites from the first read, some I grew to love as I poked at them with the curiosity of ‘is this really an empty space? Wait, there’s awesome character potential here”.
Fingon it’s hilarious because I honestly forgot he was a character in the Silm at all, and anything interesting about him for me is not at all what’s popular about him. bland beige wallpaper boy is his tag for a reason.
I don’t love everyone, and I gloss over or ignore too many I feel guilty about, but I like to think with the wide range of characters and places I do write for there’s something for someone to enjoy.
If you change your URL, there’s a 100% chance that I’m wondering, “Who the fuck is this person? When did I follow them?” At some later point, I will also begin to wonder, “Whatever happened to so-and-so?” without ever connecting those occurrences.
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