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she walks in starlight in another world

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anna ☆ 20s ☆ pnw ☆ they/them ☆ tolkien + personal ☆ hopeless aromantic ☆ follow for more soft pastel legolas ☆ starlightwalking on ao3 ☆ icon by @astral-aromance
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Hi I've been exhausted lately but I finally finished some Middle-Earth cane designs for Disability Pride Month and they make me very happy.

Click for better quality, zoom in please I spent way too long on these.

I'm a cane user, and most fictional or antique canes really annoy me, because they're rarely actually usable or practical. So this is my attempt to design usable but still interesting canes for characters I have somewhat arbitrarily projected disability onto. For example, they all have padded handles and most have wrist straps.

Individual design ramblings below!

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@tolkiengenweek Day 3 - Gray Spaces

Another excerpt from my WIP 'Gil-galad rebirth in Valinor/malicious compliance with son-of-plothole' fic from after Celebrían has arrived in Valinor and is struggling having left those she loves most behind in Middle Earth. Luckily her husband's dearest friend is there too, and that makes them ... something.

Also for Tolkien Disability Pride as Celebrían is in the throes of PTSD.

Third Age 2510 - Tirion - In the House of Finrod and Amarië

Celebrían once again screamed herself awake. She lay there for a moment, breathing rapidly, in an unfamiliar bed, in the unfamiliar room of an unfamiliar house surrounded by unfamiliar Elves. She regretted leaving her family in Middle Earth.

She heard rapid footsteps approaching, and one of the few familiar faces appeared in the open doorway. He slid to a halt, unbound hair swinging. He hesitated at the door.

Celebrían sat up, and found her voice.

"You may come in, please."

He stepped inside.

"Should I shut the door?"

He was trying so hard to be gentle with her. She felt a rush of affection, a reminder of why her husband loved this Elf so dearly.

"Please do," she replied. "I am comfortable with you, please do not think that you could frighten me."

Gil-galad did as she asked, and crossed the room and sat on the edge of her bed, taking her hand.

"I would ask if you are alright, but I know you are not," he said softly. "So instead I will ask if there is anything I can do to help."

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Tolkien South Asian Week Day 1 Love | insp ↳ Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown [104/?]: Celebrían & Elrond

Galadriel, committed Lórinand to Amroth, and passing again through Moria with Celebrian she came to Imladris, seeking Celeborn. There (it seems) she found him and there they dwelt together for a long time; and it was then that Elrond first saw Celebrian, and loved her though he said nothing of it.

Stay

Elrond will endure as he has always done. Brush your teeth, comb your hair, bear a ring of power and watch as your wife departs these shores after unimaginable torment. He shudders, feeling a strange kinship with the goats and sheep of old Beleriand, helpless creatures watching a great wall of water careen towards them, unable to correct its course or atone enough for it to matter, unable to do anything at all but bleat feebly. He is gripping her like a vice, as if trying to pull her out. There is a sick, horrible hopelessness in his face.
"Stay," he begs, breathless in his grief. "Please, Cel. Three thousand years… please. Please stay. I'll try harder."

i am so so so sorry oh my fucking god anyway this celrond started out as a warmup sketch a couple of hours ago but i got too into it and i am so sorry for the emotional damage but also 😈😈😈. words from my old celrond fic, the forest house. sorry again.

When Elladan and Elrohir are born, seabirds flock to Imladris, leaving colorful crystals and pearls outside the nursery. Gil-estel shines brighter than ever before and stays fixed in the sky above the hidden valley until dawn.

Celebrian hangs her law-mother's gifts over the twins' crib and Elrond takes them outside, wrapped cozily in the softest Numenorean wool, to look at his father's star.

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CELEBRÍAN IN VALINOR

had outrageous amounts of fun painting this for the excellent @mnimeresponding, who wanted a Celebrían who had grown her hair out in full after sailing to Valinor. thank you for trusting me with this and letting me go a bit wild with the iridescent dress and general renaissance outfitting here…