valinor

Painted in 1944 by Paul Nash it is based on two actual clumps of trees on hills near Oxford (Wittenham Clumps) which are a distinctive feature in the landscape. Nash did many paintings and drawings of the clumps but I was struck by the moonlight vs sunlight of this painting. The vernal or spring...

This fic and its accompanying illustration are my submission to Tolkien OC Week 2025, a fandom event taking place primarily on Tumblr. I was really excited to find an excuse to explore Aranya's home life with her parents, because we don't get much of a chance to do that in my main fic (Ill...

Aranya Estiel walked alone down the hot, dusty road leading from Tirion to its outlying villages. Her feet and back ached, her joints felt sore and stiff, and her heart didn’t know what to feel. The journey home took at least half a day on foot. And when she arrived, she wasn’t sure if she would...

For @Glorfindel Goldtress The House of Finwë was hosting yet another brilliant ball, in which all the nobility of the Noldor and many of the Vanyar were invited to attend. Skilled players of stringed instruments played elegant waltz tunes. The great ballroom sparkled with golden candlelight...

So when the Sindar, Nandor, and other Moriquendi sailed West they were allowed to go into Valinor proper, right? Only the Exiles had to stay on Tol Eressëa, right? Also, if the Avari were killed their spirits came West into the Halls of Waiting and then they got new bodies, right? What...

Different clans had to have a common language that they used to communicate with each other. Was it Quenya?or Telerin? Perhaps some other languages?

How do the seasons change in middle earth? We know that the reason for seasons changing on Earth is the translational motion of the planet around the Sun What was the cause of it in ME and did the seasons change before the making of the Sun and the Moon? What about in Valinor? Does it happen in...

Do we know the time length between Morgoth being released from Mando's and the darkening of the Valinor?

Technically the Grey Havens were closer than Rivendale. Assuming that they could have given the Black Riders the slip, though I think the chances of them being caught are a bit higher, unless aided by a bunch of Elves going West, and taken the Ring across the ocean to where Sauron couldn't go...

Evidence: The Lamps seem to be directly responsible for the Spring of Arda, whereby flora and fauna quantity and diversity (if I've understood this correctly) appeared throughout Arda. That directly suggests light from the lamps had a creation power, or at least a very strong growing + mutagenic...

It is unclear where Ecthelion was born. But is there any evidence that he was born in Valinor? and followed fingolfin and turgon in exile? Will anyone answer?

When the Valar created Numenor, they gave the people there one rule: you can't sail west or come to Valinor. They had good intentions with this, as they put it, "like a moth to a flame" visiting would be harmful to humans. But by simply banning them, that made the Numenorians disgruntled and...

Two questions that have bugged me for awhile. 1. When an elf arrives in the Undying Lands, do they become omniscient? 2. Do they maintain their individual identities or become just a "blank" spirit? As in, when Legolas finally sailed there, could he just walk up to, say, Tuor or Fingolfin and...

Was this ever written about or even speculated on? It's a small, insignificant thing to consider but... If the ships sailing into the west over the ages were really a one-way journey, and nobody ever sailed back to ME, then what happened to the ships themselves? Did the Undying Lands just have...

I know that the Kin-slaying was done there and also that Melkor had quite a long time (I'm not sure of the timespan between the creation and the First Age around when Melkor came to Middle Earth.) that even the Undying Lands and the Blessed Realm weren't marred by his evil influence. I do...

I know that he and Ungoliant did destroy the trees and run off with the Simarils, but, as far as I know, he never tried, even through minions, to attack it directly after that. Sauron, however, in the Second Age, did, by his attempt to have Numenor invade Valinor. Why did Melkor never bother...

... and the challenge of the trumpets of Eönwë filled the sky; and Beleriand was ablaze with the glory of their arms, for the host of the Valar were arrayed in forms young and fair and terrible, and the mountains rang beneath their feet. The meeting of the hosts of the West and of the North is...

The way I have always took it was that the time of the Elves was over during the events of the Lord of the Rings, and they had limited time to be in Middle-Earth and go to Valinor (would that mean they would be mortal if they never went, or decided to go too late?), and that's why so many began...

Call me inquisitive but as a fairly new member I'm curious about something and so far haven't found an answer here. Who designed and rendered the site's Header, Laurelin and Telperion? I ask bc I think it's wonderful. It was actually what first drew me to the website, a hook I kept returning...

Just a new necklace that my gf made, with Silmarils and Ungoliant's spiderweb.