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Laura Michel

@aislings.bsky.social

A Tolkienista, translator, history fan, gamer, professor, and crazy cat lady. Hoping to live on my writing someday. Back at Twitter, I'm Aisling_ . ”S” stands for Seannachie. English/Spanish.

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please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

27.04.2025 05:08 — 👍 14401    🔁 6922    💬 61    📌 90

…all wet and covered in mud. He took it home, gave it a bath and took care of it until it became a full rooster. The rooster was so troublesome. Finally it was given a forever home out of town but my dad asked not to slaughter it for food. The rooster died of old age.

12.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, my dad, who is the kindest person I’ve ever known, he said "set them free. They want to be free" but in my situation "free" would mean back in the streets. No way. It made me real sad. My dad used to rescue any kind of animal in trouble he saw. There was this time he found this small chick…

12.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"You should get rid of some cats". Easier said than done! It is not that I will kick them out or put them back in the streets or anything. Either I find homes for them or they stay, and that’s it.

12.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🥹💕

12.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much! Your art brings me lots of joy. 💕

12.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A small Arwen reaching out to touch some fall leaves

A small Arwen reaching out to touch some fall leaves

Preview for a later #Tolkientober but it kinda also fits today’s prompt, Fall!

09.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 30    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

#Tolkientober Day 9: Fall.

One last deed, one fall
From grace, hope ends in fire.
Who shall release us?

#Tolkientober2025 #Haiku

09.10.2025 20:36 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

#Tolkientober Day 8: Rings.

Beneath cold stars' gaze
Nine once proud kings and warriors
Had their souls taken.

#Tolkientober2025 #Haiku

09.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

#Tolkientober Day 7: Ósanwë.

Though you are long gone,
I treasure memories of
Hearts and minds touching.

#Tolkientober2025 #Haiku #Tolkientrewsday

07.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Fresh-from-the-oven ficlet for #Tolkientober Day 6: Seafarers
I thought, "Okay, this could be about Galadriel and Halbrand on the raft or it could be about Numenor," and then I thought, "fuck it, it's both."
#tolkientober2025
www.tumblr.com/lilyhandmaid...

06.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

#Tolkientober

Day 6: Elrond 🌿

#tolkientober #inktober #elrond #peredhel #trop #inks #traditionalart

06.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 35    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
Stick figure Arondir holding hands beneath a tree with stick figure Bronwyn. Hearts surround them. A stick figure artist watches them on the tv screen box crying while an arrow points to the artist that says “Myrs w/ her feels”

Stick figure Arondir holding hands beneath a tree with stick figure Bronwyn. Hearts surround them. A stick figure artist watches them on the tv screen box crying while an arrow points to the artist that says “Myrs w/ her feels”

Sticks of Power gets a bit meta with yesterday’s #Tolkientober prompt #3 Hope, and nothing gave me hope like Arondir and Bronwyn’s ill-fated love. Miss you, love you original otp 😭

06.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Stick figure Halbrand Sauron gestures behind him to plate armor with a star on the front. He says “I made sure it had a Féanorian star!” Galadriel looks at with a frustrated stick figure face and the thought bubble that reads “…seriously?…”

Stick figure Halbrand Sauron gestures behind him to plate armor with a star on the front. He says “I made sure it had a Féanorian star!” Galadriel looks at with a frustrated stick figure face and the thought bubble that reads “…seriously?…”

So what if Halbrand did actually somehow whip out that armor for Galadriel in Númenor? Sticks of Power continues with #Tolkientober Day 4 “Armor”

06.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
Stick figure Halbrand Sauron saying “I alone can see your greatness” while stick figure Galadriel looks down from the raft onto the reflection of them wearing crowns. Her thought bubble reads “Then why is your crown bigger than mine?!”

Stick figure Halbrand Sauron saying “I alone can see your greatness” while stick figure Galadriel looks down from the raft onto the reflection of them wearing crowns. Her thought bubble reads “Then why is your crown bigger than mine?!”

Behind but catching up on Sticks of Power! #Tolkientober - Day #3 Crown with some trouble in not-quite paradise for Halbrand Sauron and Galadriel

06.10.2025 18:11 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
A colored illustration of Elendil in Númenórean seafarer attire.

A colored illustration of Elendil in Númenórean seafarer attire.

#Tolkientober Day 6: Seafarers

“The sea is always right.”

Elendil the Tall, a mariner and seafarer like most Númenóreans but also the man who would lead the Faithful to the shores of Middle Earth.

06.10.2025 15:29 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

#Tolkientober day 6: seafarers

“Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Andiun and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship had passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring.”

06.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 31    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 1
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Tolkientober: Seafarers
- Círdan beholding the blessed shore at last
#Tolkientober
#Tolkien

06.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
grayscale figure against a green background and highlights of a man in cape trying to draw sword. Long hair. shadowy slightly humanoid and armored forms of warriors.

grayscale figure against a green background and highlights of a man in cape trying to draw sword. Long hair. shadowy slightly humanoid and armored forms of warriors.

Day 5 of #tolkientober "Hope"
"Estel" the name given to Aragorn by his foster father means hope...and I feel like this moment really captured that feeling for my beloved Pelargir,the war,and for the cursed as well to finally having the chance to fulfill their oath.
#fanart #tolkien #aragorn #lotr

06.10.2025 02:26 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

#Tolkientober day 4: hope

The Phial of Galadriel, the light of Ëarendil Gil-Estel, the star of hope

May it be a light to you in dark places

06.10.2025 02:11 — 👍 45    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3

Thank you! ^^

06.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#Tolkientober

06.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Aragorn closing his eyes and holding up Narsil to his chest

Aragorn closing his eyes and holding up Narsil to his chest

#Tolkientober

Hope

06.10.2025 01:49 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Tolkientober prompt day 4: armor

Tolkientober prompt day 4: armor

Armor: Elrond exchanges his robes for armor, and she finds she does not very much like the shift. Not so long ago, she had accused him of playing courtier, of not knowing evil as she has known it. But she does not, in the end, wish for him to. A sword in his hand where a pen should be.
#Tolkientober

05.10.2025 23:46 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

#Tolkientober

05.10.2025 23:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Tolkientober prompt calendar day 2: gardens

Tolkientober prompt calendar day 2: gardens

Gardens:

The scent of flowers floating on the wind awakens memories long-buried by ash, dust, sand—blood. Her hair had caught the golden light of the lanterns as she’d spun and laughed. A garden. A glade. She’d been dancing. And there had been the scent of flowers on the wind.

#Tolkientober

05.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

#Tolkientober #Tolkientober2025

05.10.2025 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Colour illustration (in browns, blacks and blues) of Adar and Galadriel standing in front of each other with a hand extended. Adar has Nenya on the palm of his hand and is offering it to Galadriel, who hesitantly extends her hand to take it.

The scene is split in two halves by the tone of the background, very dark behind Galadriel and very bright behind Adar, so Galadriel's figure is silhouetted against the dark background, and Adar's is silhouetted against the light background.

There is a halo of blue light around Nenya, also enveloping their outstretched hands.

There are forms of trees and roots in both backgrounds, white in Adar's half and black in Galadriel's one.

Colour illustration (in browns, blacks and blues) of Adar and Galadriel standing in front of each other with a hand extended. Adar has Nenya on the palm of his hand and is offering it to Galadriel, who hesitantly extends her hand to take it. The scene is split in two halves by the tone of the background, very dark behind Galadriel and very bright behind Adar, so Galadriel's figure is silhouetted against the dark background, and Adar's is silhouetted against the light background. There is a halo of blue light around Nenya, also enveloping their outstretched hands. There are forms of trees and roots in both backgrounds, white in Adar's half and black in Galadriel's one.

#Tolkientober Day 5: Hope

For this prompt I could only think of the most truly hopeful scene in all Tolkien adaptations for me🖤🤍

P.S: Inspired by "The Swan" by Hilma af Klint✨

#Adar #Galadriel

05.10.2025 21:48 — 👍 74    🔁 39    💬 11    📌 2

#Tolkientober

Day 5: Gil-Galad 👑

#tolkientober #inktober #gilgalad #trop #inks #traditionalart

05.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 28    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2
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#Tolkientober - Day 5: Hope

A little Maeglin collects fireflies in Nan Elmoth. We all start out hopeful after all, before we become jaded 😭

(NB repost of one of my old #Tolkientuesday works)

05.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 32    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 1

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