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Look who`s back with some new art ;D
Olwe, Feanor, white birds and the flame
sketch of Sauron 10 seconds before his death in Numenor for palette mob 8)
Happy New Year everyone! Here are my two submissions for the @aoaanthology!
elsilmarillionnoesparacualquiera:
I wish I knew where it said that Fingon wore braids in his hair. I don’t remember it from the Silmarillion (I might have forgotten the part where it said so! Whoops!) or maybe it was from somewhere else? Man, I don’t know but I wish I did. Still, Fingon with little braids is so cute, so I def don’t complain! heheheh
I believe I read it in The peoples of the Middle Earth. I’m not sure where , but I read it.
I haven’t read that one, so it might be there. I’ll look it up later, thanks! :D
Okay, so we’re often led to believe that spiders = the Dark Lords, especially in LOTR, where its like “lol yea spiders just hang around Mordor” and in lore for the Hobbit, too, where its like “lol Necromancer’s land is riddled with em”
but… does he even fuckin’ like the spiders???
We never see him use them. They’re just AROUND. In the shadows. Trailing him, picking on his Orcs as much as anyone else. I mean, he seems to like Shelob? But that doesn’t necessarily mean he likes all the others… Or is this just like… Him being all “fuck it I’m tired of existence, I’ll align myself to the spiders, too… cause you knnow what they threw my master in the Void and drowned me”
I’ve always assumed that since Ungoliant isn’t a creation of Melkor, her brood aren’t even really allies of the Dark Forces. I’ve always seen them as their own faction.… Spiders keep wanting to be friends with the Dark Forces, and the Dark Forces keep going “EEEW why do you have so many LEGS,” and getting a broom.
Spiders: Leeeet’s be friends?
Morgoth: mmmmmm okay
Spiders: Let’s eat friends?
Morgoth: what.I mean you’re right
Back in the day I think Mr. Melkor-Arachnophobe-Bauglir swore off spiders but realized that little could be done about them and he certainly wasn’t going to try. It’s an interesting implication that the spiders in Middle-Earth are Ungoliant’s spawn- all spiders? were there regular tiny spiders or is every single spider a descendant of Ungoliant that just kept shrinking through time (as is a pattern in ME, sort of everything settling from the Ainulindale aka Big Bang and the universe going from high energy to low energy) until we get modern day lil spiders that are mostly harmless but still hold a tiny bit of TIMELESS VOID ETERNAL DARKNESS in them lmao
Mairon, while more ambitious on that front than Melkor, having not had a near-death experience with one fifty times bigger than your body, still didn’t want to oppose them. It seemed he bartered with Shelob, who canonically was living in Mordor long before Mairon settled there. He managed to strike a deal and keep her happy, and good thing because he wasn’t really in any position to tell her no. How’s about, you do your thing and I do my thing, and if it suits you maybe eat any intruders? Try not to eat my orcs? No? You’ll eat what you want? O-ok, s-sure, that sounds good. Great talk.
While it’s not a coincidence evil spiders and dark lords are found in close proximity, do not mistake correlation for causation! The spiders like the darkness the dark lords made, and occasionally just by doing what they do, prove an asset to Sauron. But no alliances were formed. It’s an uneasy coexistence.
I find it funny that even the dark sides of fantasy don’t like spiders
I think this is how the the sides of Lotr are
The “good” side :Dwarves, Elves, Man, Ents, and Hobbits (and valar)
The “bad” side :Orcs, Morgoth, Sauron, Balrogs, Vampires, Goblins, Ogres, Trolls, Werewolves, monstrous etc. creatures no longer around
The Spider side :Ungoliant, Shelob, all spiders (eat everyone and everything)
The spiders are the bad side for the bad side
So it was that long ago there arose great tumults in the sea that wrought ruin to the lands. But Uinen, at the prayer of Aulë, restrained Ossë and brought him before Ulmo; and he was pardoned and returned to his allegiance, to which he has remained faithful. For the most part; for the delight in violence has never wholly departed from him, and at times he will rage in his wilfulness without any command from Ulmo his lord. Therefore those who dwell by the sea or go up in ships may love him, but they do not trust him.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Osse © ALEF Club, Jorney to The Middle-Earth Project
Melkor by Elena Kukanova
For House of Melkor (december 2016)
SILMWEEK DAY 6 - heroes/
heroines: Fingon rescues Maedhros from ThangorodrimThen Fingon the valiant, son of Fingolfin, resolved to heal the feud that divided the Noldor, before their Enemy should be ready for war; for the earth trembled in the Northlands with the thunder of the forges of Morgoth underground. Long before, in the bliss of Valinor, before Melkor was unchained, or lies came between them, Fingon had been close in friendship with Maedhros; and though he knew not yet that Maedhros had not forgotten him at the burning of the ships, the thought of their ancient friendship stung his heart. Therefore he dared a deed which is Justly renowned among the feats of the princes of the Noldor: alone, and without the counsel of any, he set forth in search of Maedhros; and aided by the very darkness that Morgoth had made he came unseen into the fastness of his foes.
Dawn is Coming
