melkor – Page 10 – Aowyn Tumblr Backup

merildae:

cy-lindric, am i doing it right:D

(melkor face by the amazing cy-lindric, i am not responsible for the majesty of morgoths true face)

nelyafinwe:

melkor floating in the void eating a whole entire asteroid probably: i would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids and that stupid dog

esquitor:

take me high and i’ll sing
oh, you make everything okay, okay, okay

sometimes you just gotta go back to your old fandoms

cy-lindric:

Valar (pt 1) – Manwë, Varda, Melkor

materassassino very kindly helped me with finding some designs for them and in the end I did something entirely different, sorry about that

nimloth:

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every Silmarillion reference in lotr & hobbit

— (1/?)

Melkor: *superglues the Silmarils to the back of a baseball cap*
Melkor: Not Melkor….
Melkor: *puts the hat on backwards*
Melkor: Mel-COOL.

mythomagic-and-takeanap:

~~I don´t take the Silmarillion seriously.~~

That this doesn´t happen in the book? Who says?

alia-andreth:

Whenever I start getting into Melkor headcanons I get existential as all heck. Like, “what makes someone evil?” “Can someone be born or created evil, if an benevolent and omnipotent god exists?” “Is evil just our word for behavior that is socially distasteful? If so, how can we call a being so far above humanity that he took a physical body merely for convenience sake, evil?”

I’m fully aware that I need to get a life. I’m working on it.

Actual footage of Andreth coming up with Melkor headcanons, 2017, colorized.

I feel you! I especially end up wondering how Tolkien’s Catholicism influenced his creation and characterization of Melkor, and how the absoluteness of the good/evil dichotomy in Christian tradition permeates his work. One definitely sees the similarities between Lucifer mythos and Melkor choosing to divert from the designs of Eru in the Ainulindale. In Christian scripture, evil is simply the corruption of God’s original perfect creation, which is almost a direct analogy to Melkor being unable to create anything new living of his own—he can only manipulate what Eru already made.

But where I think that this comparison breaks down a little is whereas God is always involved in the workings of the world, Eru is significantly more distant from Arda and what he’s created, only intervening when things get really bad. He doesn’t have any ultimate goal of salvation for his children in the way that the Christian God does, and because of this ambivalence, using him as a moral standard to define good and evil in the same way that Christians do their God is incorrect.

This means that identifying Melkor as Lucifer’s counterpart also becomes imperfect. So is Melkor really evil? Or is he simply a deviation from the norms set by Eru? Idek man help.

feanoriansappreciation:

markedasinfernal:

Look, lots of people give Melkor shit for screaming when Ungoliant tried to eat his shinies, but I think if we look deep inside ourselves, we should realize that a giant spider attacking you is an entirely justifiable reason to shriek like a little girl.

I scream when I see tiny spiders, are you kidding me?

jodeeeart:

Had loads of fun painting this! ❤