Honestly now any time I see a pretty symmetrical circular pattern I think about sigils.
Sits atop this mountain and feels this to my bones.
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I was looking at that embroidery reference picture you just posted and remembering your Edain craze in Second Age Valinor. Do you think that part of it might have been a fashion for basing your personal sigils on Edain patterns? (Because that sort of embroidery would be pretty easy to do that with for women at least.)
Oh yes! And I made the connection between those circular patterns and the sigils right away (lol of course). If they didn’t have a sigil yet, I would imagine young elves using Edain patterns as a fad/starting point. And if they did, especially women as they had round sigils already, hemming their ‘Edain-style’ garments with their sigils. (Which, I figured those elven heraldic symbols were more like kamons sewn on court garments instead of painted on shields)
Heget i’m laughing, this is lovely hahahahahaha
i love the anticlimatic end, beautiful XD
And Hador and Fingolfin having this familiar attitude in close quarters!! yeah!!
Okay, but in an hour or so Fingon is going to be showing symptoms of lactose intolerance, so it’s not like there isn’t a explosive less anticlimatic ending. And yes! Fingolfin and Hador might not be Finrod and Bëor (or Finrod and Beren, or Turgon and Húrin and Huor), but they are very much bros. If they were in a modern AU, they would watch football together. I couldn’t decide who would be the Davos to Fingolfin’s Stannis, but Hador is applying for the position now.
cycas replied to your post : Prompted by @cycas: Fingolfin and Hador … Hador is…
😀 Fingolfin making Fingon drink it instead of him, tut Fingolfin!
Prerogative as a father ;p And hey, he knows this sort of thing will help Hador and Fingon bond.
Plus, well, horror stories about Finrod and his brothers versus Bëorian malt whisky. The Valiant can take that bullet instead.
d;akfjdklfj;a I’m gonna be late for work but YESSSSSSS
Running late for work myself – but yesss~
still trying to polish this, and I wrote it so I can answer a prompt meme later today – aka more is coming
Word of Tolkien – the Witchking was riding a pterodactyl
Really? Is that in HoME somewhere or in a letter?
From Letter 211:
Pterodactyl. Yes and no. I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a ‘pterodactyl’, and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the ‘Prehistoric’). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to the new mythology, and its description even provides a sort of way in which it could be a last survivor of older geological eras
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I don’t like the telepathic guy subplot in Ethan of Athos (only parts of Ethan of Athos do I like anyways).
Add Cavilo to this list too; she wasn’t really impressive as a villain, only at all memorable not for her but because the ending gave Gregor and Miles some great moments, but her character herself? meh.
That whole blank state issue is why I haven’t written anything with the Unbegotten yet (despite having plenty of headcanons for Iminye and Enelye in particular). It’s so weird and bizarre and just *complicated* to wrap my head around.
It is such a weird thing when given even a smidgen of critical thought, which is why I love Erikwa so much. Just the fact that the contrast of waking in pairs versus having parents on what constitutes what their ideas of inate connections to others should be.
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I mean… I am very biased, because your Brides of Death is one of my favorite works ever and I want more of it
Well, here’s the one of the possible answers for #31.
Brides of Death does try to claim the throne of personal best, like a flower-crowned empress. Howl is its metaphorical son, and the Cuiviénen fics take all the remaining Stone-Bronze Age fantasy fun, enough that I feel if I tried to do pre-Beleriand Edain fic, I’d be repeating myself. (The real question is who will get the migration centric fic I know I’ll eventually write – Elves on the Great Journey or one of the human groups looking at the Blue Mountains – and if those will be one of the Three Edain Houses or Easterlings)
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