Siryawë Telpëa, spouse of Makalaurë Kanafinwë. Dancer and pearl diver.

Character lore under the cut!

[Image description: an elf in a graceful dance pose. One arm is curved over their head and the other is at chest height. They have light brown skin and shoulder length blonde hair. Their left leg is an above-knee metal prosthetic.]

Samwise Gamgee is the ultimate icon for friends of people with disability imo. I can't take your arthritis for the day, but I can walk behind you up the stairs and make your coffee. I can't take your adhd while you're working on this assignment, but I can help you stay on task. I can't take your depression upon myself for a bit, but I can come over to your house and help clean your room and listen to you. No, I can't absorb some of your memory loss issues, but I can remind you of things and save you a seat when you're running late. Yes, I know it's a lot, and yes, I know it's a heavy burden to bear, and no, I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you.

Once again thinking about the “Tolkien elves are physically superior to humans in every way” thing as a disability parallel

Tolkien really said: a group of people are born with bodies that are weaker, slower, less dexterous, more breakable. They can't do many things that others take for granted. Their bodies are vulnerable and fall to wounds and illnesses that the other group is baffled by. They are physically less able and there are barriers that they will never be able to overcome. They have no magic powers to make up for this difference; they just live with it. Their lives are shorter and they will die earlier.

Still they are heroes, lovers, craftsmen, villains, musicians, warriors, poets, adventurers. Still their existences matter. They are essential parts of the universe. Their lives are meaningful and worthy of honour, however brief they may be.

[Transcript: a reply to this post that says "I love reading LOTR takes from people who’ve never read the books #the elves are angels darling he was catholic and people are just people #I think if you're looking for that analogy you might have better luck with the hobbits #still not there tho"]

Words cannot possibly explain how funny this is as a Silmarillion fan

an inexhaustive list of diagnoses given only to the quendi

when you’re rúmil of tirion and the tiny prince of the noldor keeps barging into your house to Yell About Orthography so finally you give up and make him some tea

[Image description: black and white art of Rúmil and young Fëanor having tea together. Rúmil is sitting in a wheelchair with a cup of tea in his hand, smiling slightly. Fëanor sits opposite him, cross-legged in the chair. He is a child/young teenager. He is talking passionately and gesturing with tea in one hand which is spilling out of the cup.]

Once again thinking about the “Tolkien elves are physically superior to humans in every way” thing as a disability parallel

Tolkien really said: a group of people are born with bodies that are weaker, slower, less dexterous, more breakable. They can't do many things that others take for granted. Their bodies are vulnerable and fall to wounds and illnesses that the other group is baffled by. They are physically less able and there are barriers that they will never be able to overcome. They have no magic powers to make up for this difference; they just live with it. Their lives are shorter and they will die earlier.

Still they are heroes, lovers, craftsmen, villains, musicians, warriors, poets, adventurers. Still their existences matter. They are essential parts of the universe. Their lives are meaningful and worthy of honour, however brief they may be.

@tolkienofcolourweek day 6: intersectionality || SADOR & RAGNIR

[ID: an edit comprised of four posters in shades of brown, white, and grey.

1: Two brown circular frames connected by a rectangle in the center. The upper left shows Rudy Harding, an older barbadian model with dark brown skin, a shaved head, and a white beard. He wears a black, high-collared shirt and looks down seriously at the viewer. The bottom right circle contains an image of woodworking tools. The background is a black and white photograph of a plain and snowy mountains. The part of the background in the rectangular frame is in color. Vertical brown and cream-colored text on the right side of the rectangle reads "sador" / 2: A black and white image of a small building made of stone and thatch, amid mountains. A brown frame surrounds the picture, and brown and cream text on a semi-transparent white rectangle reads "Sador had been a woodman, and by ill-luck or the mishandling of his axe he had hewn his right foot, and the footless leg had shrunken. He worked in the outbuildings, to make or mend things of little worth that were needed in the house, for he had some skill in the working of wood." The text is framed by large quotation marks / 3: Same format as Image 2, but the background shows a clearing in a coniferous forest, and the text reads "His blind eye making him an indifferent woodman, Ragnir turned instead to the arts of healing and the cultivation of herbs and remedies. He took joy in this work, wherein he had great skill, and his nursing is thought to have delivered many from the foul breath of Angband." / 4: Same format as Image 1, but the upper left circle shows hanging bunches of herbs, and the lower right frames Fikayo Ifarajimi, a nigerian model with dark brown skin and dark hair in short twists. He has some stubble on his face, and one of his eyes is cloudy white. He looks seriously at the viewer, turned slightly to the right. The background shows the wooded shores of a lake, with one tree higher than the rest //End ID]