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Young Fëanáro
the insatiable explorer
Feanor and the fate of the three silmarils
after a year of hanging in my dorm this painting is coming down as I finally graduate from university…
lord of the rings ladies week day three | dwarrowdams | dís and her ancestresses | @lotrladiessource
Thordís and Eydís were sisters of the Line of Durin. In the ancient tradition of their foremothers, they were each simply given the name “Dís” upon their birth, with a unique prefix added when they came of age. According to their mother Arndís, this custom stretched back to Alfdís, daughter and heir of Durin I the Deathless himself. Thordís received her name for her boisterous, thunderous laughter, while Eydís earned hers for her cleverness and good luck.
The sisters each married into Longbeard royalty, Thordís wedding Prince Thráin II and eventually becoming his queen, and Eydís wedding Prince Náin of the Iron Hills. Thordís had three children: Thorin II Oakenshield, Frerin, and a daughter, once more named only Dís. Eydís bore only one child, Dáin II Ironfoot, and the cousins were fast friends in their youth. But when the dragon came, Thordís was slain, and her children dispossessed from their kingdom. Thus it was that Dís daughter of Thordís had no mother to name her when she came of age, and in honor of her fallen mother she refused to take a prefix altogether.
Shortly after the Fall of Erebor, both Frerin and Náin were killed in the Battle of Azanulbizar, where Thorin and Dáin won great renown. Though Eydís remained in the Iron Hills, she never forgot those she lost, and when Thorin called upon Dáin for aid in his Quest to reclaim Erebor, she urged her son to heed his call. Alas, Thorin died in the resulting battle, leaving Dáin to inherit the throne. Then at last Eydís reunited with Dís her niece, last of her siblings, and offered her a new name: Freydís, for her noble courage in the face of much hardship. This name she accepted in her heart, though to all others she was yet known only as Dís, daughter of Thráin.
"...when all other lights go out."
I'll start from afar.
The First Age. Days of Long Peace. Recently built Nargothrond.
And the words: "I will also take an oath and must be free to fulfill it and go into darkness."
Doesn't sound too optimistic, does it?
And in 200 years Humans will come. Unknowable. In fact they are not particularly needed by anyone. But for some reason appeared in Arda. For what? Only one noldo guessed.
"This then, I propound, was the errand of Men, not the
followers, but the heirs and fulfillers of all: to heal the Marring
of Arda, already foreshadowed before their devising…"
And in the text of Athrabeth before Bragollach a completely different theme sounds. The conversation is going on at dusk, the light of the hearth is fading, as if the darkness itself is coming. But the last words are "Whether you go may you find light. Await us there, my brother - and me."
A completely different attitude. And this fading of daylight emphasizes it even more.
Well, or so it just seems to me…🤔
The Battle of Sudden Flame.
Fen of Serech.
The oath.
"Hello, Beren, son of Barahir…"
And here probably many will disagree with me, but it seems to me that it was not the oath that was primary in making this decision, but the vision of Arda Remade several decades before.
"… if any marriage can be between our kindred
and thine, then it shall be for some high purpose of Doom."
Did he lose THAT fight? - yes.
Did he lose the war? - no.
And one day there came a day when the Vingilótë rose to the heavenly limits and shine over Arda.
Centuries go by. Kingdoms are being created and crumbling. The darkness recedes and thickens again. But the Star is still rising on the horizon.
One day a simple little hobbit receives a crystal phial from the hands of the elven Lady. A vial with the light of Gil-Estel, the Star of Hope.
"It will shine even brighter when night falls around you. Let it be a light for you in dark places when all the other lights go out."
Curufin’s portrait is here⛈️
Feanor was fascinated by the light of the two trees .At times he liked to walk along the path and gaze upon their wondrous light and from this came the need for preserving part of their wonder in his own creation and thus ,the Silmarils were created.
Nerdanel the Wise
lord of the rings ladies week day two | women of the north | vidumavi galadwen | @lotrladiessource
Valacar gave to his son the name Eldacar, for public use in Gondor; and his wife bore herself wisely and endeared herself to all those who knew her. She learned well the speech and manners of Gondor, and was willing to be called by the name Galadwen, a rendering of her Northern name into the Sindarin tongue. She was a fair and noble lady of high courage, which she imparted to her children; but though she lived to a great age, as such was reckoned among her people, she died in 1344.
—The Histories of Middle-earth: Volume XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, “The Making of Appendix A”
Corsairs
by Allan Curless
Summer elves ☀️: Caranthir
Caranthir does look nice with flowers, and a light smile instead of a frown.
Had some minor issues with the coloring here but I think it came out alright still.
Luthien and Beren stealing Silmarils from Morgoth