Three months ago I pitched an idea for a party game. Today, ‘WHAT THE PLOT?!™’ is a real game and available for pre-order! I am so excited. Thank you everyone for your support!

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What The Plot?!™ is now available for pre-order on planet Earth until January 1st! Definitely check it out; it’s pretty-ducking-epic thanks to your feedback and input!

https://creators.teespring.com/what-the-plot

omg they actually did it!!

guys ive been waiting for this. If I get it will you guys play? @folklorefairyqueen @moonxchaos

YES OMG I WANNA PLAY THIS RIGHT NOW @cyhyryth

this by itself already makes me wanna play this game 😂😂😂

UPDATE: Friday 27, March, 2020

It’s a real game now! The manufacturer sent us 5 copies! The quality is amazing! Thank you all for making this game a reality! The games are currently being shipped from Poland to a fulfillment center in the US and the Czech Republic. If you preordered the game, you can expect to have it in your hands at the end of April (so far, the pandemic has not been impeding our schedule).

The print quality of the cards is superb. The photos don’t do it justice! The text is a bit blurry in the pictures, but it’s crystal clear!

If you want to get notified when the next pre-order round drops - click here!

I LOVE THIS AAAAAA

Solopunk Ideas : post one

here's the crochet pattern for mask adapters that I have been making. Check with your local hospital/health care provider if they are accepting these before you begin making them. It seems that each NHS trust is deciding for themselves what they are happy for health care workers to use. My local NHS trust is actively asking for them.

Make them with plastic buttons and yarn which can be washed at 60'c so that they can be machine washed and decontaminated properly.

written pattern is as follows:

UK terminology

dk cotton yarn and 3.5mm hook

Leaving a long tail for sewing, Ch15

Round 1: Dc in 2nd ch from hook and MS. Dc across leaving one ch remaining. Work 3 dc into last ch marking the 2nd dc with a st marker. Dc in each st up to MS. Work 2 dc into same ch as 1st MS.

Round 2: 3 dc into first st, dc into each stitch up to MS, remove marker and work 3 dc in next stitch. Dc in each remaining st. Join in 1st st with a ss. Tie off leaving a long tail for sewing.

Using the tail ends, sew the buttons onto the outer edge of the adaptor and sew in ends.

The Two Trees of Valinor.

Feanorians 

Of the brave and anguished fallen,

of the valiant noble soul. 

—— House of Fingolfin, the Nolofinwëans.

Nolofinwëan week 2019

House of Finarfin, the Arafinweans.

——Arafinwëan week, Day 7

Had so much fun, thank you all for this awesome week <3

Of the crossing of Helcalaxe and the ruin of King’s Tower.

—— Nolofinwëan week, Day 3

Of the flight of the Noldor and the duel at the brazen gate.

—— Nolofinwëan week, Day 1

THE HOBBIT/LORD OF THE RINGS illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien himself.

—

Terry Pratchett (via mylittlebookofquotes)

#whereas terry pratchett storms in with a flame thrower#burns it to the ground#then sprinkles some of the ashes#on the windowledge of his own fantasy-palace#but only a few ashes mind#just enough to make a little pile#which is just enough to make a satisfying allusion#or perhaps even#if you’re lucky#all the way up to a satisfying *reference*#mostly just to make pretty pattens though#couldn’t you just see terry pratchett wielding a flame thrower?#with a crowd of nac mac feegles behind him#crying OCH AYE DEATH T'THE PATRIARCHY#and other such scottish war chants (blackboardmonitor)

J.R.R. Tolkien writing Elvish, 1968.

It’s from this interview (beginning at 17:54). Amazing!!

@weary-hearted-queen

Tolkien: This character is Feanor, which in my language means Spirit of Fire, which gets at his personality, creative spirit, and destructive tendencies. 

Also Tolkien: This character is Treebeard because he’s a tree with a beard.

Tolkien: Here’s an entire language I created for a race of people, full of history and lore

Also Tolkien: Mount Doom

But those are the English translations of those names. Treebeard is called Treebeard in the narrative because Treebeard’s Sindarin name is Fangorn. The same name as the forest, that’s right, either Fangorn was named for the Ent or the Ent was named for the forest, it was probably the former. Like Treebeard, Mount Doom also has a Sindarin name, which was Orodruin, not just Mount Doom, although Orodruin means “Burning Mountain” not Mount Doom. Mount Doom was, no doubt is a translation, the name that mortals gave it in Westron, and is close to its other Sindarin name, Amon Amarth, or “Mountain of Fate”.

@weary-hearted-queen

Soooo….Melkor disbursed his native powers into the very substance of Arda before he was taken.  Ensuring that his Influence never really leaves, even after he’s maimed, dis-embodied and thrust into the Void.

Now, what if Mairon discovers that by getting a big enough negative psychic energy infusion, those powers will…discharge?  Like a battery.  Giving a life to a short but strong ‘ghost’ of Melkor.

Numenor.

ohhh, I like that concept. I’ve always loved inherently, how Melkor put enough of himself into Arda, that he can never be extricated entirely—which is my big theory on why Eru never truly removed him from Arda / destroyed him (I stand to the 2 Void theory—one is outside Eru wholly, the “True” Void, and the other is the outer limits of Eru’s influence—that Eru could not destroy Melkor without destroying Arda, and likewise Melkor isn’t able to be thrown into the true Void, only at the outmost limits, on the edge/border)

The idea of extracting essence of Melkor from Arda is awesome

Ah, the double Void concept is not something that’s been clarified so well for me before - it makes good sense!  Especially with the added factor that, no Eru cannot extract Melkor wholly from Arda without destroying it.  Also, it gives Eru a true beneficence -  another chance for the Most Wayward Child to evolve beyond his pride and rage without doing more harm to Eru’s other creations.  That would be much more in keeping with an All-Loving, All-Forgiving God! 

Essence of Melkor

The newest perfume from Mordor Industries!

He’s in outer space

With Wheatley???

(And Space Core?)

Did Maedhros leave a note?

Just something I’d been pondering with the ever-patient @crackinthecup at my side. At the end, at the very end, when the Silmarils were captured and all hope turned to sorrow, and Maedhros took the decision to end his own life in despair, did he ever leave a note explaining why, or simply sharing his feelings at the time? 

Perhaps he didn’t, perhaps he did: here’s my take on a letter scrawled in a trembling, painful hand, left upon crumpled bedcovers, in a silent tent. No warnings, beyond the obvious context of suicide.    

- - - - 

Káno.

Know first that I love you, always, always, I love you. You are stronger than us all. You will lead our people with grace.

I am sorry. My tidings seem ever to forebode ruin. I do not mean to ruin you.

You are kind, it is your nature. You break, and you heal. I wish so much that I could be like you.

Perhaps you will be angry with me, when you learn what I have done. Perhaps you will think me weak. I cannot tell you what to think. I know only my own mind, yet all the more my mind is anathema to me. I do not recognise the thing that inhabits my skin.

I have lost myself, Káno. I am lost, and I do not know how to find my way back.

I am so tired, Káno.  

I am sorry. I am ill-suited to emotion; my words are clumsy. I do not know how to tell you what is in my heart. It is leaden in my chest. It aches in my bones. I just want to be rid of it.

I beg of you nothing. I ask only one thing of you, this only. Leave a flower on Finno’s grave, for me.    

Please.

I hope that he will understand. I fear that he will not.

I am tired, and I am afraid. I cannot carry the weight of the dead.

Finally I might be free.

OP why you do this to me.

Thanks for ruining my day

Bitch

More Lay of Lethian stuff

Okay so

SAURON WHAT THE SHIT

He meets Finrod and Beren, in disguise as orcs, and the first thing he does is says “Oh, have you heard of Luthien? I hear she’s smoking hot. And Melkor wants to own her.”

No one ASKED, Sauron! No one asked! Why are you being like this dude

Sauron’s #1 skill is making everyone in the room immediately uncomfortable. Okay. He’s the biggest bitch you’ll ever meet. That’s just how it is. 

SAURON IM SCREAMING WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU

Beren: hi yes I am orc

Sauron: you know what’s on my mind today?? huh??? huh??? you know what i’m thinking about??? how my husband wants to fuck this random Luthien chick. Did you know that?

Beren: ..

Sauron: oh was that awkward do you not wanna talk about that bro???? too bad!

SAURON YOU’RE LITERALLY THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE THING EVER YOU MET THIS GUY LIKE 30 SECONDS AGO AND HE HASNT EVEN TALKED TO YOU ALL YOU’VE DONE IS MAKE WEIRD SMALL TALK ABOUT MELKOR’S LUST HABITS

I’M SCREAMING

Sauron still hasn’t let them talk. He’s just talking to himself. And out of FUCKING NOWHERE he just busts out the most emo rhyme of all time.

“Death to love!!!” Sauron is this a loyalty oath or a middle school breakup poem dude 

im screaming

An important part of this context is that Sauron still doesn’t really know they’re anything but orcs

He just sits down with two random “orcs” and this is his go-to conversation

Can you fucking believe this guy???

He’s the “anyways, how is your sex life?” scene from the room. That’s him

😂😂😂😂😂

I’M LAUGHING SO HARD IN FRONT OF MY CELLPHONE WHILE READING THIS I THINK I’M GONNA DIE =))))))))))))))

Sauron you lil bitch

I’M CRYING

Concept: the Silmarillion, in the style of Lemony Snicket

“Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a workshop and you decide that the Silmarils would look better in your crown, and you simply grab the Silmarils and take them there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the Silmarils, take them to your fortress, and eat them.”

“Finrod was an Arafinwean, a word which here means ‘lithe blonde twink who, for some reason, everybody in the entire world except for Celegorm seems to underestimate.’

Curufin was smitten, a word which here means ‘not Celegorm.’”

“Now, “in the dark” is a term meaning that one is not aware of something that is going on, and has very little to do with physical light, or the lack of such a thing. If it is a bright sunny day and you are sitting in a park and you have no idea that buried beneath your picnic spot is a treasure chest then you are in the dark not in the dark, and if it is the dead of night and you are traipsing through the woods and you are entirely aware that you are being followed by a troupe of ballerinas then you are not in the dark in the dark, and if you are sitting at your kitchen table working and you are so intent on your work that you do not even realize night has fallen then you are in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, until you look up and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark in the dark. And immediately after Melkor extinguished the Trees, all of Valinor found itself very comprehensively in the dark.“

“Fingolfin was an optimist, a word which here means ‘attempting to make amends with his half-brother who has just threatened him with a sword.’

Fingolfin was an optimist, a word which here means ‘willing to trust his half-brother to bring him across an ocean in the boats they have just stolen together.’

Fingolfin was an optimist, a word which here means ‘about to cross an ice bridge, having previously turned back because such a thing was clearly impossible.’

Fingolfin was an optimist, a word which here means ‘about to charge an evil god and stab him with a sword.’

Fingolfin was an optimist, a word which here means ‘dead.’”

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats, or, in Finrod’s case, werewolves.”

i just put up the doors of during speak friend and enter + the feanorian star on my door but if any of yall can write “get thee gone from my gate thou jail crow of mandos” in quenya/tengwar it’ll be the fastest decor change i do in my life 

i think in quenya it would be “á auta intye et fendenya, corcomandale lo mandos” literally “get yourself away from my gate, prison-crow of mandos” (although ‘get yourself away from’ may be conjugated wrong)

and i *think* it would look like this written in tengwar:

bless you and ur sick language skillz

Here’s an alternative suggestion - no prepositions, we stick everything to the noun like Finns:

Heca [thou be gone] andonyallo [gate-my-away from], a [vocative particle] mandocorco [loose compound “gaol” + “crow"] OR corco mandó [”crow of the gaol”] mandosseva [”of Mandos” in a possessive sense, i.e. jailcrow owned by Mandos] OR mandossëo [”of Mandos” in a genitive sense, i.e. jailcrow that originated in Mandos]

Going with “Heca andonyallo, a mandocorco mandosseva!”, which is my preferred version - doesn’t it have a lovely rhythm?, that would be

Cheers!

you are all gems and i love you

took me a while but yall will be glad to know no dark lord be coming to my gate no more

i have basic ass quenya skills so I’m confused af but like how do y’all learn this shit I’m impressed

Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

My mom is a pharmacist and got 16 out of 30. SHE’S SO MAD.

My Tolkien fanbook is ready for sale on Lulu.com now!  My friend @mynameiseyyyyyy​ help me work on all materials to fit Lulu's publishing requirements and put it online. I greatly appreciate her help. OwO 

You can buy it here:

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Thank you :)

wow mannn 

Custom edition of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Silmarillion by bookwyrmbound, via Dark Roasted Blend.

ruinofeventide, I think you need to see this.

star-vault-ofthe-heavens, you like Tolkein, no?

@mynameiseyyyyyy GAZE UPON THIS MASTERPEICE

Hehe, I’ve seen! I actually have an interesting tid bit about it too: the gold and silver material used to make the trees is purposefully fragile and would wear off eventually with regular handling. But, the fruits are made of a more durable material so they will last a lot longer. This represents how even though the 2 trees will fade, there’s still a portion of them that still survives~