Coffee is essentially derived from the Coffee Berry, which would be categorized as a fruit.
Therefore,
the idea of the peredhel twins having heightened senses due to their maia blood is one of the concepts ive seen floating around that i really like, so here's my take on it combined with the feanorians (+ fingon) lingering about as houseless spirits that i explored some time ago in an old inktober post 😌
houseless spirits see all, but they can't interact with the world around them so i suppose that makes for quite a static existence...but compared to an oathbound eternity in Mandos (sans Fingon??), i like to imagine they'll stay a little longer to watch over those left behind, just to make sure they're doing alright 👍🏻
some more lighthearted bonuses cuz why not:
*it may not seem like I can be, but seeing that someone needed to hear it and so they let me say it makes me so so proud. It’s a bit of an oroboros but we’re ignoring that. <3
Last Sentence Tag War
Tagged by @brievel (sort of) and @lady-merian
The surrounding darkness and the sudden silence were shocking. 'What on earth,' said Smitty, trembling and breathless, 'is going on?'
Tagging @kraytwriter @informedimagining @muse-write @musewrangler @catkin-morgs if you guys want to join in (and anyone else I forgot).
Yay another tag! Thank you @afaroffsong Happily I have several things in the writing hopper. Giving you more than one sentence for context from a yet unpublished fic.
“I’m thinking that this language is not adequate,” he replied, smiling into her eyes, “to tell you how I feel. So… you are my karilana, if I can use Axxilan.”
“Always,” she said. “What does it mean?”
He thought for a moment as they strolled.
“The closest I can get to is ah…beloved. Heart’s blood. A mix of that, but more profound.”
“Karilana,” Sola murmured as they set foot on the frosty path once again.
Tagging with no pressure @mnmovdoom @banachtarskiparadox @tolkienreader1996 @shannon-foraker
Thank you @musewrangler
Good hunting?” Maedhros asked conversationally.
“Yeah!” Link chirped, “The boar almost gored me but I climbed a tree in time. Hey maybe tomorrow I’ll go test the bombs, I saw a couple of bokoblin camps.”
Maedhros looked surprised, “Please don’t blow yourself up, for the love of all that is holy.”
Link smiled “I make no promises.”
Tagging @clawedandcute @firestorm78583 and anyone else who wants to join in
anon me a song that matches my tumblr vibe
God bless you
That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass
The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:
25 July 1938 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.
Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.
I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully
J.R.R. Tolkien.
(Letter 30)
The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.
This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.
W.h.a.t.
Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”
Nazis: Are you Aryan?
Noted linguistics freak Tolkien: Are you?
*hugs you real tight* would you please send this to ten people on your dash? make sure someone gets a hug today! (sending this back to say thank u 🫂😊💖 you don’t have to pass it on again)
Thank you ❤️❤️
I’m sorry Reddit refugees if I accidentally blocked you thinking that you were a bot. In my defense the actual bots gave me an itchy trigger finger.
*hugs you real tight* would you please send this to ten people on your dash? make sure someone gets a hug today!
Sure❤️
Reblog to softly headbutt your mutuals on the shoulder
Get headbutted losers /aff
My family calls those head-hugs :]
Aww that’s cute! ❤️🥰
Ye :]]
Do you have headcanons about the flora and fauna of Himring? or any feanorians realm?
Flora and Fauna of Himring and the March of Maedhros
To be updated soon
Disclaimer: I used both what we can extrapolate is likely indigenous to the region based on descriptions of the landscape and climate as well as my own headcanons and inspirations and reference books on similar habitats as well as The Atlas of Middle Earth and The Flora of Middle Earth
I really love working on and researching these! and as always feel free to ask more, even if I’ve already done a place I’d always enjoy going into more detail of tacking a more specific kind of life there
Reblog to softly headbutt your mutuals on the shoulder
Get headbutted losers /aff
My family calls those head-hugs :]
Aww that’s cute! ❤️🥰
Flora, Fauna and Geography/Environment of Arda
I thought it would be easier to have a masterlist for this so I don’t have to throw so many links at you all each time! It will be updated when new things are added so recheck the original post when you want! Entries without links are in the process of being written.
I also have lots in the Beleriand tag as well as on my World Building Masterlist here
Disclaimer: I used both what we can extrapolate is likely indigenous to the region based on descriptions of the landscape and climate as well as my own headcanons and inspirations and reference books on similar habitats as well as books like The Atlas of Middle Earth and The Flora of Middle Earth
I really love working on and researching these! and as always feel free to ask more, even if I’ve already done a place I’d always enjoy going into more detail of tacking a more specific kind of life there
Note: requests do not have to be for only Beleriand! And you can request anything; geographical resources about certain features (forests, marshes, etc), information on flora and fauna or environment and climate, etc
Region Himring and the March of Maedhros Hithlum Ard-galen Dorthonion Sirion Gondolin Maglor’s Gap Brithombar (WIP) Himlad
Thargelion (WIP)
Seabirds of coastal Beleriand (WIP)
Brethil: board Hithlum: board Dorthonion: board Ard-Galen: board Doriath: board Nevrast: board Maglor’s Gap: board Himring: board Nen Lalaith: board Barad Eithel: board Nan Tathren board Dor-lómin stimboard
Other boards in the edits tag
OTHER:
Middle Earth Post First Age:
Geographical resources: Rivers and streams of Beleriand Lakes and springs of Beleriand Forests of Beleriand Marshes of Beleriand
Flowers of the March of Maedhros (possibly part one, there are so many!)
I love doing general flora and fauna posts but I can’t fit everything in them so I’m trying to make more specific ones as well! please please feel free to send categories to work on with locations! Or any environmental world building asks!
extensive environmental world building for himring plus more in the Himring tag
Birds of the March of Maedhros
The March of Maedhros was a cold realm in Northeastern Beleriand. It was located slightly Southeast of Dorthonion and south of the planes and meadowlands of Lothlann and Ard Galen. The March was a cold region with taiga forested hills and icy waters, including the sources of several rivers, namely Celon and Little Gelion which were located in the other Hills around Himring. The March falls between the cold mountains on the Southern and Eastern borders of Dorthonion and the mountainous regions of the Gap and Thargelion on its own Eastern border. The cold likely comes from a combination of its proximity to the Ered Engrin and Ered Gorgoroth, especially given the boreal forested region of Dorthonion, as well as altitude in some parts of it. I go into this more on other posts!
Like my other posts of this kind I will include more world building notes at the end (relationship between people/elves and the fauna, symbology or significance of certain species in local cultures, etc), otherwise this would just be a long list of species
I feel like these would be the most likely candidates but feel free to add others (e.g. maybe Celegorm for having Míriel's hair)!
#maedhros 100%#actually all the sons of feanor are finwe's favourite grandchildren#the children of his favourite child#plus#the only interaction of finwe and any of his grandchildren we are told about in canon is with feanor's sons#finwe lived with them and feanor in formenos for 7 valian years when he followed feanor in exile#polls#finwe#feanor#sons of feanor
Some bantams for my peeps. (How come Henley gets prettier every day)