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it may be that we fled from a fear of the dark menu close home important information archive ask me anything submit a post it may be that we fled from a fear of the dark tolkien silmarillion the histories and coh writing world building and sometimes edits information in pinned post my icon is aerin by ulmondil background by houndsofvalinor previous icon by slightnettles updated pinned post and commissions note for some reason my tag for the wanderings of húrin broke so the tag is now tol acharn primarily the silmarillion and the children of húrin but i do lots of lotr and general tolkien stuff too especially about elven languages feel free to ask questions my username is a reference to the wanderings of húrin i honestly do not remember why i chose it areas of interest to me are world building environment nature society culture etc of beleriand middle earth and valinor as well as angband please ask questions about this i now have a masterlist for environmental world building here and one for societal world building here and my newest masterlist aerin and post nírnaeth hithlum hcs with other coh lists my tags are often more reliable though because i can be slow to update the masterlists i am autistic i get over excited so sometimes come off as rambling awkward or repetitive please tell me if i m interacting in a way that s annoying or if i m talking over you i do love complimenting other s works and talking with others so feel free to message me updated note about commissions my kofi if you have questions about why i link these feel free to ask but the basics are meds etc i do take commissions for writing or world building research though i am slow at times here s an example of commissioned world building i typically charge five dollars for world building research and honestly pwyw for writing the silmarillion the lord of the rings updated pinned post dec 19 2025 gothmog is such a frightening villain to me the lord of balrogs a species that as demons of shadow as well as fire i already think have more horror potential than are given credit for gothmog in particular though seems to possess an intelligence and a deliberate cruelty that the others of his kin do not have to the same extent he seems very much to thrive on the terror and intimidation he wields as one of the most prominent faces of angband s armies and the stories of his deeds rival those of sauron s he kills fëanor and fingon with both attacks showing a chilling combination of pre meditation and pack predation he drags húrin to angband with mockery one of if not the only implications of speech for him or his kin i think gothmog probably has a collection of trophies he s taken from his victims some of it he warps into his own battle armor to face his enemies bolstered by the fragments of their fall and more so by the terror it invokes some of these items are from well known figures a torn and bloodstained banner of fëanor a melted dagger from one of maedhros s guards the first helm of maedhros himself the broken shield of fingon cast aside when he was struck and a few dented pieces of húrin s armor much of it though would be unrecognizable to any but those unlucky enough to know exactly who once wore the armor or trinkets and who came upon them face to face in the worst way gothmog the silmarillion musing and meta the children of húrin in the iron hell blood and darkness may 18 2026 i ve been thinking about morwen s line to túrin if you wail other things will find you first said to him when he starts to cry in their conversation before his departure to doriath it s harsh certainly and it s undeniably true i think morwen heard this herself as a child fleeing the bragollach with other bëorian children perhaps she even witnessed this come true the cries of her younger kin attracting the attention of enemies or even simply of wild animals morwen at her age eleven or twelve might have been among the older children and more capable than some of the elderly many of whom i believe died on the road to brethil of the burdens that might have been placed upon this newly orphaned possibly injured child to gather materials and other chores she would have been used to but also to keep watch to keep children quiet to dig their graves all without tears i have been thinking a lot lately too about how a lot of her later approach to things could have been influenced by emeldir very interested in them having an incredibly complicated almost contentious relationship a mutually respectful one for the most part and she s learned so much from her but emeldir absolutely knows that she s causing a lot of damage to young morwen and she also knows that she doesn t really have a choice because the alternative is worse i think about the resilience that morwen instills in and demands from túrin and niënor and about her knowledge that children can and do survive horrific circumstances is entwined her knowledge that often they don t anyways i love morwen very much the silmarillion musing and meta the children of húrin morwen houseless for exiles emeldir this is one of my favorite morwen posts may 18 2026 elven word of the day 414 letinwessë from quenya meaning constellation derived from tinwë an early word for star i have a list of the constellations that can be found in middle earth here tinwithli is the sindarin cognate not to be confused with litinwissë meaning having many stars there are dozens of star related words in quenya and sindarin showing how important stars are across elven cultures the silmarillion musing and meta the lord of the rings lotr quenya sindarin wotd may 17 2026 i have a longer post about the implications of this but it s just perpetually funny to me that morwen refers to fingon and turgon only as húrin s friends without using their titles i love her so much no one was as effortlessly dismissive as morwen eledhwen she has so little respect for fingon and she doesn t care if it s obvious at the same time there s no hostility she s just apathetic morwen the silmarillion musing and meta the children of húrin i ll have a more serious morwen post on monday but i m just always thinking about her may 16 2026 i love thinking about the domain of irmo who loved twilight and flittering shadows the master of dreams and visions plays but a small role in the stories but each line especially the rich descriptions of his realm in the book of lost tales are so interesting to me i also love the potential for horror and the strange and uncanny within the powers and domain of each vala and irmo especially is fun his physical domain is a place of illusions and shifting paths glades with springs where the mere mist that rises off them is enough to lull the unsuspecting into a trance elves can become easily lost in those gardens and there are tales of souls who sleep for years before being found entangled in scented vines and night flowers waterfalls reflecting kaleidoscopic colors and trees tended by strange pollinators boundaries shift and blur in a thousand ways and of course the maiar who once served him who now serve melkor are capable of other terrifying deeds the guardians of angband s nightmares the crafters of cruel illusions and masks who can deny sleep and induce it who can wear a million faces or none at all the silmarillion musing and meta the lord of the rings lotr strange geographies irmo in the iron hell valinor valar may 16 2026 the word for wolfsbane in the hadorian language means horse bane and it is considered among them to be an ill omen it is often destroyed on sight especially in their fields and along grazing routes children are taught from a young age to identify it gifting these petals to another is considered a grave threat and dark tales are told of the plant s ability to kill a horse within hours and a man even more quickly during húrin s relatively brief time as lord of dor lómin there were two instances where he had to litigate a situation in which someone deliberately planted this flower on the farm of another or gave them dried roots of it during the occupation destruction of wolfsbane mostly stops as along with their names language songs and so so many other customs and practices hadorian agricultural traditions and their ways of interacting with the land are changed suppressed or forbidden the deadly plant never grew rampantly in hithlum but the presence of it is yet another reminder of all that is being lost or destroyed and on the same theme so much hadorian folklore sayings ghost stories and nursery rhymes are also lost including many of the stories about the plant that they associated with the death of horses however some do remember it and take advantage of the fact that the occupiers do not and it takes on a new significance for them after a particularly awful incident involving one of her cousins mhati who is being groomed into be a soldier for the occupiers aerin thinks of these stories in a moment of quiet fury and anguish leaves three petals of wolfsbane on brodda s desk and pillow he questions her and two others but through his control and cruelty he has forced her to become a better liar than she s ever wanted to be the lies no longer feel like poison and she wishes she had put the ominous flower into his drink instead he never quite comprehends the threat the silmarillion the children of húrin aerin occupation of hithlum dor lómin hithlum musing and meta húrin please appreciate how hard i tried to keep this concise without rambling may 15 2026 x x x x x x x x x gladden fields where isildur lost the one ring where located around the inflow of the river gladden where it met the great river anduin gladden river was associated with yellow irises i took inspiration from wet meadows in the uk and northern asia the silmarillion the lord of the rings lotr lotredits edits may 14 2026 when i made my post about morwen and animal associations i said the animals that remind me of her were animals that are mostly harmless though seen as odd or scary or have superstitions around them as long as you leave them alone or show them the respect they deserve i forgot to mention aye ayes solitary with minimal close connections resourceful and famously feared especially for their eyes anyways please appreciate how much morwen scares people with me morwen i love her and her creepy stares so much word ran among them the silmarillion half joking but the children of húrin musing and meta may 13 2026 i ve had so much fun seeing the responses to my previous two questions so here s another for you all tolkien wrote in multiple places that every creature that walks the earth or has ever walked the earth has existed in his world so what creature or plant would you most like to see appear in tolkien related works or just think would be cool to think about living extinct or fantastical i personally have too many to name so i ll make a separate post but extinct sirenians manatees and dugongs dodo birds moas extinct monotremes and terrapins and certain species of ferns just to name a few the silmarillion musing and meta the lord of the rings the hobbit strange geographies might do some micro world building posts about individual species later today lotr tolkien may 13 2026 elven word of the day 413 avosaith from early sindarin meaning gloomy places this is an archaic word its origin is largely unknown though possibly related to the root gath meaning gloom or blight i really love this word there are so many places in tolkien that are marked by a gloomy grim atmosphere such as taur nu fuin where beleg was slain mirkwood and the barrow downs this word was created when tolkien was writing the lays of beleriand which has many descriptions of bleak places the silmarillion musing and meta sindarin the lord of the rings lotr wotd may 12 2026 indy theme by safe as milk