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should i return to the series?

no

yes, with a change to the visuals (tell me how in replies)

yes, with shorter captions

yes, unchanged

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if you have suggestions, please leave them in the replies! i actually have a Lot more of the visuals done (all the elves, most of the dwarves, and photos saved to make edits for the hobbits and ainur) but the writing is the part that really takes time/effort. i do enjoy the writing but the effort is what made me stop working on this series.

basically, i’m considering reviving it, but possibly with much shorter captions…though again i do really like the finished product i’ve got so far, so idk. i welcome your thoughts!

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February 14th/15th - The Mirror of Galadriel

“Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal,” she answered, “and to some I can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be. But which is it that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell. Do you wish to look?”

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Hey you know how Pippin and Diamond had a son and they named him Faramir? And then they introduced him to his namesake and he immediately gained the biggest uncle ever? And how Faramir and Elboron would pal around together and became close lifelong friends? And how Faramir and Elboron both took after their fathers, in that Elboron became a gentle scholar who helped restore lasting peace between Gondor and Harad and Faramir became the fightingest Thain Tuckborough had produced in generations and carried his father's sword and was known for leading the defense of the Evendim Road in the goblin skirmishes following the restoration of Annúminas? Okay so only the first line is actually canon but the rest is also canon

prideboardsgenderfluid elenwë ♡ art from this picrew ♡ for @jhelenivarsimae

Elenwë her mother had no Sindarin name, for she never reached Beleriand. She perished in the crossing of the Ice; and Turgon was thereafter unappeasable in his enmity for Fëanor and his sons. He had himself come near to death in the bitter waters when he attempted to save her and his daughter Idril, whom the breaking of treacherous ice had cast into the cruel sea. Idril he saved; but the body of Elenwë was covered in fallen ice.

[image description: a 3x3 moodboard. 1: dark pink text outlined in black on a light pink background, reading “you are valid” 2: white lineart of a butterfly on a pink background. 3: the vaulted ceiling of a white castle. 4: vibrant purple roses. 5: Elenwë from the Silmarillion on the background of the genderfluid flag; they are depicted in a picrew as an elf with warm brown skin, a dusting of golden freckles, long wavy blonde hair, and blue eyes; they are wearing white lipstick, small silver hoop earrings, a simple pink robe that reveals their shoulders, a pink flower crown, and a pearl necklace. 6: simple black lineart of two mountains and some constellations above them on a purple background, beneath which is black text reading “it’s a big world out there” 7: a black starscape with the tops of trees just barely visible. 8: white lineart of a partially-picked dandelion on a black background. 9: fragmenting blue-and-white ice. end image description.]