@general-illyrin / general-illyrin.tumblr.com
Welcome to my blog; I hope your visit here is pleasant, however long it may be!
I reblog many posts, but I separate them by topic, and don't reblog them all here; if you are interested, here is a list of my side blogs and links to my art and writings under the cut:
My first go at Maitimo after ages of not doing Silm art.
Day Six: Cheese for the Chesterton Challenge
Once again, I had no inspiration for the prompt, so I disregarded it in favor of making a messy outline of a scene I'm hoping to write for a fic:
Like I said, it's a very messy outline and will probably be revised a bit by the time of the final fic
Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien i'm begging of you please don't kill my man
His beauty is beyond compare His stature tall, and long his hair Like every other man you wrote has been I know the more you speak his praise The fewer his remaining days How easily you break my heart, Tolkien
I think this song is made of lies Your fave's your fave because he dies Or 'cause his pain gets worse in every scene. If what it took to make us care Was fairness, wisdom and great hair We'd all be on here stanning Finarfin.
What slander found within these notes! I stan Finarfin, love him totes But in the text he largely stays unseen He lost his sons, his daughter banned He suffered plenty at Jirt's hand Death isn't the worst fate cast by Tolkien But Elrond and Finarfin show What we all here already know The chance of getting out alive is lean How many more were slain and lost Their tales compel, but there's a cost My love is true, it belongs to Tolkien Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien i'm begging of you please don't kill my man Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien An Andreth, Turin, Finrod, Beleg fan
It seems to me we disagree
About a simple thing, to me:
Selection bias, to the fancy folk
The book that the Professor wrote
Has too much death, and we must note
A fave is just more likely to have croaked!
And since your fave is stone-cold dead,
What makes them stick inside your head?
Bit a werewolf, stole a gem, swore Oaths?
So, is it life or is it death
That makes you read and catch your breath,
Or let’s ask this: why cannot it be both?
Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien
You wrote a book that broke our fucking hearts
Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien
It’s got pain in every single part!
My toxic gatekeeper coming out but this is one of the funniest things a guy has ever said to me about LotR
help this is literally so funny.
Aragorn canonically withheld important information that might've helped the hobbits trust him on the off-chance that they'd decide to like him based on who he is as a person because he was lonely.
ARAGORN.
Summer on Berk
I'm so impressed by your embroidery project. that's like, my dream project!
Ahh, thank you; this means so much to hear!! It is a lot of fun to work on (at least for me 😆), and I'm really looking forward to the finished product, even if it is somewhat discouraging at times. But I encourage you to try it, especially if it's in a large enough scale for you to be comfortable with the names. The stitches are all pretty simple, and the biggest hurdle, at least for me, is the time commitment and making sure I put in the work every day/every other day so I actually finish it in the well...relatively near future. If you are interested, I am basing the process off of this lovely map, though I used a different base map for my pattern, and I'm using slightly different colors. (This map also looks very good, but has better contrast and is able to be zoomed in on better.)
In light of the sad news about Bernard Hill, I feel like we should take a moment to really appreciate the acting performances in the LOTR trilogy. The fact that none of the cast got Academy Awards is well-known and I think even now the sheer visual spectacle of the trilogy can overshadow everything else, but the performances were SO crucial to what made the films great.
It’s easy to take the success of the movies for granted now, but that was never a guarantee. Aside from the practical aspects of portraying such an epic fantasy onscreen, the series is peppered with dialogue that is fine on the page but unbelievably difficult to deliver. As Harrison Ford famously remarked to George Lucas re Star Wars “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.”
From Gandalf’s “To the Bridge of Khazad-Dum!” to Elrond’s “It must be cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came!” it would be so easy for the whole thing to collapse into farce. The only reason it doesn’t, is because of the talent and conviction of the actors.
Bernard Hill was tasked with one of the most objectively ridiculous lines in the entire trilogy. “The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time!” And he delivered. BOY, did he deliver. He gave it all the gravitas and emotional weight of Shakespeare, he made it truly rousing instead of ridiculous, he took the audience with him to that moment, that place, right into Middle Earth with its people and its history, and made it REAL.
And for that, I thank and salute him. RIP, sir. Go now to the halls of your fathers. You earned it.
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blond wrestling guy + blumineck = celegorm
*brandishes a notebook and mechanical pencil* tell me everything
OKAY. SO. (oh my god this is so long)
THANK YOU FOR MY EDUCATION
I HOPE IT IS OKAY IF I REBLOG THIS FOR REFERENCE AND FOR OTHERS WHO WISH TO BE IN ON THE LEARN
I LOVE THAT YOU ARE SO PASSIONATE ABOUT IT AND NOT GATEKEEPY TBH THEY SEEM LIKE RIGHT LITTLE FUCKIN GUYS I LOVE THEM ALREADY
breaking news: not only has the silm fandom adopted the C&C wrestlers, the wwe fandom has been converted to feanorian stans
Tonight, we remember one who lent his enormous talent to telling the story we have all come to love. Hail, the victorious dead!
May the Simbelmynë cover his tomb as it did the tomb of the one he so accurately portrayed.
Bernard Hill Dec 17, 1944 - May 5, 2024
Here’s my little homage to Bernard Hill, who will always be Théoden King in my heart.
Not my best work nor the best pic but it’s late, I have a hellish headache and I wanted to finish this little calligraphy piece today.
