Luthien Here Was Supposed To Have Her Standard Blue Dress But I Suppose Something Went Wrong In The Process

luthien here was supposed to have her standard blue dress but i suppose something went wrong in the process

Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang collab with 2Nienna2

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Two Solos - Elemmírë and Maglor playing music in Valinor

One Duet - NSFT artwork on AO3

Elemmírë and Maglor are music/theater "rivals" and they end up having sexy writing/composing sessions. They're artists and they inspire each other. Elemmírë is vanya and she's the one who composed the Aldudénië, a poem lamenting the death of the Two Trees. I headcanon that she was Maglor's partner who stayed behind in Valinor.

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Imagine hearing this behind the bush and you thought its a cat 💀💀

Alqualondë #blood tw/

Where now all our sons? for Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2024 ( @tolkienrsb ) in collaboration with @niennawept. Title roughly translated from this song by Lind Erebros.

Eärwen, mother of Finrod, Angrod, Aegnor, and Galadriel, as I imagined she might have been had she joined the Host of the West in Beleriand during the War of Wrath.

Other thoughts below.

This was strongly influenced by Jenny Dolfen's A Sorrowful Meeting in theme, if not in execution. I've always wondered how much those in Valinor knew about the goings-on in Beleriand, where so many other reunions would never happen.

Women, broadly, get the short shrift in the canon narrative, so I wanted to draw focus to them and their grief, not as helpless, hopeless, hand-wringing maidens, but as angry, maybe even ambivalent avengers of what they had lost.

This closing verse from Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Dirge Without Music" was very much on my mind:

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know.  But I do not approve.  And I am not resigned.