B9 - Artifacts and Weapons - Fëanorian Lamp (art)

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B2MeM Challenge: Artifacts and Weapons - B9 - Fëanorian Lamp

Format: digital art

Genre: General

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Characters: er... lamp?

Pairings: None

Summary: I won't even pretend Fëanor had something like this in mind, when he created those lamps.



Maglor and Fingon refuse to talk (which means I can't write the fic for B4 I wanted to so badly!), new number hasn't been posted yet, so I got stuck with making this. :/

I also used the prompt in one of the stories, but thought it couldn't hurt making one of these as well.



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That and a perfect angelic interpretation of the Valar (who seem more like imperfect pre-Christian demi-gods who have lapses of judgment based upon their own individual prejudices) are my two pet peeves in ongoing canon discussions.

Oh God... don't even get me started on that. An Elf (OK, half-Elf, half-Man) comes to Valinor to beg them for help and what's their first reaction? Let's kill him. :/ Angelic creatures? *cue sarcastic laughter*

If Tolkien truly wanted presented them as such, then he failed at that, in my opinion. There is nothing angelic in Valar. You take one look at their actions and behaviour after they came to Arda and you can see they're hardly flawless, wise, unselfish, kind or many other things people would like them to be. But because Tolkien said they were angelic creatures, they have to be all that and people won't accept any other truth even when text clearly shows they are wrong. I mean, what makes the Valar, who for centuries didn't lift a finger and left thousands and thousands of Elves and Men to die in Middle-earth, while fighting against one of them, any different from Fëanor, who was responsible for the first Kinslaying? Fëanor acted in a heat of the moment, guided by his own despair and emotions, while Valar thought the whole thing through and consciously left all those people to die - because such was "Eru's will". Maybe none of them raised a sword and killed those Elves and Men themselves, but they didn't do a thing to stop Morgoth either, when they were the only ones powerful enough. And lets not even get into the whole 'Light of the Trees is reserved only for Aman' or anything like that - my laptop is very sensitive, when it comes to my anger and I'm afraid it might explode if I even make the slightest attempt typing that. ;)

*takes a look at the endless reply*

Why didn't anyone stop me before I started writing this?!

I'm so sorry, Oshun. Please, feel free to ignore this. There's really no need for you to reply to this, alright? It's just that once I start ranting about Fëanor, his kids and the Valar, it always turns into something like this. :(