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endillos:

@arwenindomiel’s tolkien south asian week day 1: ainur + monochrome•MELIAN

Melian was the name of a Maia who served both Vána and Estë; she dwelt long in Lórien, tending the trees that flower in the gardens of Irmo, ere she came to Middle-earth.Nightingalessangaboutherwherevershewent.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of the Maiar”

[ID: An edit for Melian, consisting of six images mainly in red and orange.

1. A south asian woman with her hair in a braid. She’s wearing a red and orange gown and golden jewelry. This image contains text reading “Melian the maia”
2. A rainforest. The green is recolored to be red
3. A nightingale singing in a tree. Like the previous image, this has been recoloured to be mainly red
4. The same woman as in image one, with a veil now. This image contains text reading “and among his people there were none more beautiful, nor more wise, nor more skilled in songs of enchantment”, which is a quote from The Silmarillion
5. That woman again, now once more without the veil. The text on this image reads “Melian the maia”, like in image one
6. A series of gateways built from red stones

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arwenindomiel:

Arwenindomiel’sTolkien South Asian Week​​​​​​Day5✧Typography
 ↳ Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown [98/?]: Uinen, Lady of the Sea

HisspouseisUinen,theLadyoftheSeas,whosehairliesspreadthroughallwatersundersky.Allcreaturesshelovesthatliveinthesaltstreams,andallweedsthatgrowthere;tohermarinerscry,forshecanlaycalmuponthewaves,restrainingthewildnessofOssë.TheNúmenóreanslivedlonginherprotection,andheldherinreverenceequaltotheValar.

lyndeth-halfelven:

Morwen Eledhwenfor@arwenindomiel‘s Tolkien South Asian week day 4: Men + typography

endillos:

@arwenindomiel‘s tolkien south asian week day 2 | minimalism + elves + tragic heroine|ELWINGTHEFAIR

Too late the ships of Círdan and Gil-galad the High King came hasting to the aid of the Elves of Sirion; and Elwing was gone, and her sons. Then such few of that people as did not perish in the assault joined themselves to Gil-galad, and went with him to Balar; and they told that Elros and Elrond were taken captive, butElwingwiththeSilmariluponherbreasthadcastherselfintothesea.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath“

[ID: An edit for Elwing, consisting of four graphics. Each has an image set on a white background with a red frame, and contains text reading “Elwing”

1: Hamel Patel, an indian model with black hair and brown skin. SHe’s wearing a white sari with black detailing and is walking away from the viewer, looking over her shoulder

2: The overgrown ruin of an ancient indian building

3: Green treetops

4: A white bird with a black head, in flight

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arofili:

tolkien south asian week day one | monochrome ♦ avari |the hisildi |@arwenindomiel

But the Loremasters of later days, when more friendly relations had been established with Avari of various kinds in Eriador and the Vale of Anduin, recorded […] the names that the Avari gave to themselves. They had evidently continued to call themselves Kwendï, ‘the People’, regarding those who went away as deserters. The Avarin forms cited by the Loremasters were: Kindi, Cuind, Hwenti, Windan, Kinn-lai, Penni.

—The History of Middle-earth: Volume XI: The War of the Jewels, “Quendi and Eldar”