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Currently:

++ Weekly Saurondriel/Haladriel Fic Recs → 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14

++ Fic Trailers → Got a request? Shoot me an ask! (Some examples include this, this, this and this.)

++ The Occasional Poll

++ Attempting to focus on writing an original project but ruminating over a toe dip into Saurondriel/Haladriel

Me on AO3:

++ Multiple Reylo fics, complete & WIP (on hiatus)

++ One very old Labyrinth fic

++ A bevy of bookmarks I encourage you to check out if you’ve got the need to read 😉

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[moonlarked]

being a fan of a character is sometimes “look at how complex he is. he’s so intricate and his story is so tragic and he’s so much more complicated than people give him credit for” and sometimes it’s like “haha look at this failure of a person. I wanna throw him off a cliff and see what happens”

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[nyancrimew]

it would be kinda cool if hollywood being shut down had the side effect (besides hopefully getting everyone better working conditions ofc) of getting some non US movies and shows a bit more of a platform again outside the US, cause why the fuck is there like mostly only hollywood in much of the world, i love the chokehold US imperialism has on pop culture, it's great

[nyancrimew]

this also goes out to everyone being like "waaahh there will be NO MOVIES and NO SHOWS what am i going to WATCH" like girlie, this is a US strike, u have a whole worlds worth of rly fucking good entertainment to watch. ur missing out, get out of ur comfort zone, watch some weird ass local european movie with questionable subs, go watch that thai tv drama, this is the perfect excuse to check out anime if uve considered it "cringe" so far, there is the whole world of bollywood too! and there is so much shit i dont even know about thats out there just waiting for you to watch it and blorbofy!

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[thrillofhope]

The Lesser of Two Evils, Chapter 14

The ship has a secret, Finrod had said, in those days when her conception of the dark had yet to be colored quite so painfully. For unlike the stone, her gaze is not downward but up. 

She looks up to find Sauron tracing veins of starlight set in stone. 

Fixed upon the light that guides her, whispering of grander things than darkness ever knew.

And when his eyes catch hers there is none of the glister of the brilliant grey mineral reflecting back at her.

Read on AO3

[rebelrebelwrites]

Ooo yay! Also, @thrillofhope, this moodboard is gorg!

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[theegosystem]

the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

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[mikailborg]

No TV show or movie I will ever watch is worth starving a writer from their home.

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[ryebreadgf]

me and the mutuals discussing themes and motifs

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[ariiamgoblin]

Ever since I saw the movie for the 358th time a few months ago and did some loose sketches in the sketchbook I haven't been able to get Jareth out of my head. Actually I haven't been able to get him out of my head since I first saw him when I was ten, but that's another matter.

The thing is, I've been delving into his character background, writing a fic, and I needed to draw him as I imagined him in my mind. I hope you enjoy my interpretation of the Goblin King. Maybe there will be more drawings of him.

Stay safe and drink water little goblins <3

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[youwouldneverbreakthechain]

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[soberscientistlife]

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[oroniel]

Galadriel and Celeborn's Uneasy Marriage

With the casting news about Celeborn, I wanted to share a couple of thoughts.

Tolkien is full of weird relationships. Most of the marriages in his stories are threaded through with a current of uneasiness at best, and sometimes a sense of deep tragedy. I'm not going to get into details here, but if anyone wants to start a thread analyzing all of the marriages in Tolkien, I'd participate, because with the exception of the hobbit marriages, most of them seem pretty messed up. Sometimes due to external circumstances, yes, but none of them end well.

Canonically, Galadriel and Celeborn fit right into this series of uneasy and somewhat tragic relationships. Look at the end of the Return of the King: in the chapter "Many Partings," the hobbits ride out towards the Shire with Aragorn, Galadriel, and Celeborn. Here is the scene where they part with Aragorn:

Then Aragorn took leave of Celeborn and Galadriel, and the Lady said to him, "Elfstone, through darkness you have come to your hope, and have now all your desire. Use well the days."

But Celeborn said: "Kinsman, farewell! May your doom be other than mine, and your treasure remain with you to the end."

Clearly "all your desire" and "your treasure" refer to Arwen, and Celeborn here is explicitly stating that "your treasure remain[ing] with you to the end" would be different from Celeborn's own doom, ie that his own "treasure" will not be with him to the end. It's both poignant and also kind of catty and passive-aggressive of Celeborn to say this in front of his wife. Like "Let's hope our granddaughter doesn't leave her husband the way you're leaving me."

This interaction has always indicated to me that there is some kind of major rupture in Galadriel and Celeborn's relationship. In a straight reading of the text, we can assume this refers to Galadriel's intention to return to Valinor and Celeborn's insistence on remaining for longer (if not indefinitely) in Middle Earth. This split is pretty clear across the text and is interesting in and of itself.

But if you throw a possible SauronxGaladriel subtext into the story, you can take this in all kinds of different directions, and still stay within the bounds of canon.

So just because Celeborn is suddenly on the scene in Rings of Power does not mean that Galadriel is bound for a happily-ever-after-eternal-marriage scenario. We know that there is tension and an effective separation at the end of all things, and we know Celeborn's annoyed by the situation, and we know that Galadriel goes ahead and does her own thing anyway. This is not a sappy, happy couple. At the end of tale, canonically, she and her husband separate because they care about different things.