Update!

There will be a 2023 Feanorian Week. I want to thank everyone who offered me grace and understanding during this last week, especially as I dealt with personal things that prevented me from taking a lead in this event.

There are a few other things that I do want to try as the week expands, but for now the date is March 20th-26th!

The prompts are the same unless you all have others to suggest. If so, please let me know!

Other than that, have fun! I will check in a few times a week, and be checking in daily as we get closer to the event and as it happens!

Hope to see new people and old people alike join!

Maedhros, Turgon, Finrod & Fingon by  _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿

Here is Book!Legolas, he whose light heart and jaunty spirit could not be dampened by the snows of Caradhras: “I go to find the Sun!’ *waves*

Quick sketch.

Happy Birthday, Christopher Tolkien! Christopher Tolkien was involved in the work of his father from a very young age on. He supported him and edited and published over 20 books on Midle-earth after his father’s death. His latest work, Beren and Lúthien, again made a huge impact. Recently it became known, that Christopher resigned as director of the Tolkien Estates. Today marks the birthday of a man who, like no other, loved, learned, gathered and shared the work of his father. Let us raise a glas and congratulate Christopher Tolkien on his 93rd birthday. Thank you for sharing this endless richness of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world with us! Enjoy your retirement.

My take on the Feanorians

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Madhros, Feanor, little Maglor & Nerdanel by http://egorit.lofter.com/

Finwe + Feanorians by すけきよ

Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.

To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!

I assumed I just wasn’t writing very well, but maybe it’s not just me.

Am I supposed to pay to get my writing in front of followers now?

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled sci-fi content because this is important for app users, and it sucks. We all follow blogs because we want to see their content, not to have a crappy algorithm decide what’s best.

This blog is down approximately 80%, which doesn’t affect me other than as an annoyance (as this is a hobby and @okayto is small-ish) but the issue undoubtedly hurts others.

Below are instructions for turning it off. You have to do it individually–it doesn’t matter if a blog you follow turns it off, you’ll still be affected unless you do the same.

We don’t normally reblog PSAs, but this is very clearly affecting us, too! If you haven’t been getting your daily dose of RPG humor, this setting is probably why. Turn it off so you can see all the silly shit players say!

Trying to reblog the versions of these instructions with the most notes, so they’ll actually show up for the people afflicted by this update.

Its that time of the year again! I will really appreciate a reblog to spread it further=)

*If the prices are too much I do lineart versions as well, send me an ask for details if interested=)

Camera mapping experiment for my ‘Gondolin’ environment illustration (from the Silmarillion Project)-

The illustration ^

Maedhros by  _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿

Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.

To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!

you can’t make this up

I try to keep this blog for art only, but this has been a major issue for me the last few days. If you follow me on mobile and still want to stay up to date with my posts, please change your settings!

I don’t know what happened, but I am also experiencing this sudden drop.

@ all of my followers who use the mobile tumblr app!!!

please go to “General Settings” then to “Dashboard Preferences” and turn off “Best Stuff First”. This is killing artist exposure! Please, please, PLEASE, turn it off if you really do love the artists you follow! You’d be helping us so much! Please reblog this so that more people may know!

Caranthir and sewing

I know there are many people out there who favor the Caranthir-can-sew headcanon (myself among them), but I don’t think we fully appreciate the possibilities.

Please imagine Fëanor finding out that Caranthir likes sewing and is really good at it, and he takes Míriel’s sewing box out of a chest in the attic, blows the dust away and gives it to his son, and little Caranthir’s eyes light up in excitement and awe.

Imagine Nerdanel having some friends in the house, and there are those beautiful tapestries and hand-made tablecloths on the small coffee tables (I don’t know the exact English word for it) all around the house, and Nerdanel’s friends tell her that they’re very beautiful and Nerdanel smiles and says: “Oh, Carnistir made them.” And she is so proud of her baby boy as the women look impressed.

Imagine Celegorm ripping his clothes so often when he is out hunting, and he always takes them to Caranthir to fix them because he is the only one who can. (Nerdanel is an artist and a mother but she does NOT sew, there are limits to her talents and she’ll stick with what she knows, thank you very much) And Caranthir gets so annoyed with him because “I fixed the hole in the knee only YESTERDAY Tyelko and today it has at least three more, including that SAME ONE!”, and he finally reaches his breaking point one day when Celegorm comes back with his sleeves missing, and he sits his older brother down and shows him how to sew the holes in his clothes. “That’s it, sit down, I’m going to show you how to fix this yourself because I’m so DONE!”

Imagine little Amrod and Amras coming to him and asking him to fix their toys where their stitches were ripped and they look so genuinely guilty and sad about their teddy bears that Caranthir always smiles and reassures them that they will be okay, he will fix them, and maybe he spends the entire night awake to finish them but it’s worth it because the next morning when he gives them to the twins both have those HUGE grins on their faces, and they squeeze him in a hug before running off to play.

Imagine Caranthir and Curufin hearing some elves talk about how Curufin was just like Fëanor and inherited his skills in the forges and how Celegorm looked more like Míriel than Fëanor himself did and how Maglor is a great singer and harpist and Maedhros is so skilled in politics, and they probably say that Caranthir must be adopted because he doesn’t have any special skills like his brothers. And then Curufin gets angry at how their words upset Caranthir, and he stands up and gives this really long and detailed lecture about genetics and Caranthir’s fascinating talent with sewing that he OBVIOUSLY inherited from our grandmother, until they apologize and leave just to get rid of him but Caranthir is beaming the entire time.

Imagine little Caranthir sewing outside next to the lake and some kids come and make fun of him for it and say how sewing is for girls and then things escalate, and Caranthir runs back home crying and he goes to his bedroom and knocks all the sewing equipement from the table, and then Maedhros is there (of course he’s there, Caranthir doesn’t even wonder if he heard the crashing noise or not, Maedhros is ALWAYS there) and sits in front of him and asks him what happened. And Caranthir tells him everything, about what the boys said and how insecure he feels, and “Is sewing really only for girls Nelyo?” And Maedhros decides than he needs help to get this through, so he takes Caranthir to Fëanor, who tells that of course sewing isn’t only for girls and that those boys were only jealous because he has grandmother Míriel’s skills and she was the best weaver of the Noldor. And he reassures Caranthir, and then Maedhros takes him outside to play, and the boys and their comments don’t matter anymore because if his father thinks Caranthir can sew then of course he can. His father is always right, and Maedhros said so as well, so Caranthir can sew.

Imagine Maglor sitting with Caranthir in the living room when Caranthir is angry, and Maglor plays his harp and sings as his little brother sews, and they sit like this until all of Caranthir’s frustrations and all his anger melt away. Maglor might not have a way with words, but he has a way with music.

Just imagine all the endless possibilities of Caranthir being the only one in the family with Míriel’s weaving skills.

Finwe & his descendants by  _star热爱生活呀巴扎嘿

Where are Faniel, Irime, Findis, Gil-Galad, Finduilas, Maeglin? *_*

And Miriel (for equity)