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Character of the Month: Eönwë This month's biography focuses on Eönwë, who started with a variety of identities but settled into the role of Manwë's herald, exemplifying the values of strong leadership and justice.
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Rescued from a brutal Angband hunt, an ex-thrall with a strange and powerful artifact embedded in his spine is brought to Himring, for it is one of the only places in Beleriand which welcomes such folk. Though he has no memories of his life before, Anniavas slowly becomes accustomed to his new…
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
The last of the Elven ships are sailing and Maglor’s feet are restless. In the surreal version of reality his mind supplies there are ghosts to wrestle and hard truths to confront. In Tol Eressëa, Nerdanel swallows her own hurts in order to care for her son.
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Across the history of the "Silmarillion," Eönwë's role settles on a character who leads without taking upon himself the power to mete out justice and who acts with equanimity across some of the most harrowing conflicts in the early legendarium.
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There are few details in the texts about Marach, but he is noteworthy for his allegiances and his descendants, who would become pivotal to the history of Middle-earth and the eventual defeat of Morgoth and Sauron.
Thirteen years before the War of the Ring, an orcling — more intelligent and more curious than most — is born in Mordor. His curiosity will lead him to both incredible discoveries and perilous situations, all of which will shape him into a leader unlike any Mordor has ever known. But to become…
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I love the idea of the library of Cîr Imladris and this is an especially fascinating document and commentary! I appreciate both the uncertainty about the provenance and the archivist's precise observations (until right before the end, that is, when he gets deliberately vague).
[I do hope you don't mind my mentioning it, but you have somehow ended up with one instance of "here" for "hear"]
Thank you! (And thank you for the typo-catch too. Fixed now.)
Originally it was just the double-drabble, and then the archivist in my head piped up with 'You can't just leave it like that!" and the note practically wrote itself. I'm delighted it spoke to you!
Oh! This is wonderful. But you are kicking in an open door with me. I love Fuingon and Maedhros so much. Love Fingon's warmth, heart, courage, and noble aspirations so much in this. So tragic and beautiful.
I love this whole concept so much. The details of the works are so well thought out, and the archival processes (and hiccups) so detailed. The personalities come through so clearly. And there's pathos, and humor, and curiosity. Delightful, every time.
I really love how you construct these - so many little delightful details, like the Dwarf-made paper and oak-gall ink. It really does read (to my layman's eyes) very much like someone describing an ancient text!
An arrow loosed from bowstring twined of hair & shadows plied
It's an interesting and cool idea, to write something for a fragmentary idea in the form of fragmentary manuscript pages! I like your explanations for the various confusions. And I'd be fascinated to read the "Beren Strongbow and the Princess of Night" version(s)!
Your poem is so evocative, the visual presentation as a forest by a lake just gets me so excited, and then to top it off all the little archivist details are simply marvellous!
Wow!! The poem itself but that art and presentation is next level! And I love the commentary on it, guessing the age based on little clues and questioning translations... <3
Comments on Pages from the Archives of Cîr Imladris
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