Moods of Tarn Aeluin by Anérea
Fanwork Notes
Inspired by the "Helderberg Mountain" prompt for the Dip The Ladle challenge, these photographs are all in the Cape Floral Region, where a three year old Tolkien briefly spent some time before sailing for England.
I've warned for Character Death because the second moodboard depicts the burned tarn after the bragolach, so just dead plants, no people. (Fucking Silm! I was just going to make a nice pretty, happy moodboard, and then it said "But ...")
Fanwork Information
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Description: Two moodboards depicting Tarn Aeluin Major Characters: Major Relationships: Genre: Type: Landscape, Moodboard/Collage, Photography Challenges: Dip the Ladle, Jubilee Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate Warnings: Character Death |
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| Posted on 21 January 2025 | Updated on 22 January 2025 |
The Hallowed Sanctuary
Now the forest of Dorthonion rose southward into mountainous moors; and in the east of those highlands there lay a lake, Tarn Aeluin, with wild heaths about it, and all that land was pathless and untamed, for even in the days of the Long Peace none had dwelt there. But the waters of Tarn Aeluin were held in reverence, for they were clear and blue by day and by night were a mirror for the stars; and it was said that Melian herself had hallowed that water in days of old.
~ The Silmarillion, Ch XIX: "Of Beren and Luthien"
Chapter End Notes
all photos by me
After the Bragolach
Then Beren awoke, and sped through the night, and came back to the lair of the outlaws on the second morning. But as he drew near the carrion-birds rose from the ground and sat in the alder-trees beside Tarn Aeluin, and croaked in mockery.
There Beren buried his father’s bones, and raised a cairn of boulders above him, and swore upon it an oath of vengeance.
~ The Silmarillion, Ch XIX: "Of Beren and Luthien"
Chapter End Notes
all photos by me
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