#not here for pristine snow-white luthien i’m here for grimy ragged-nailed adventurer luthien#she crackles with the holy light of the stars and wields shadow as if she were made from it#called the night upon tol-in-gaurhoth and sent it crashing down on sauron’s mighty head#stole her way into angband and sang manwe’s equal into the ground#stood before the throne with the silmarils at hand and never spared so much as a thought for it#i’m here for scary luthien with the eldritch powers – archangel luthien who fights darkness with darkness and wins#yet withers in the light of the silmarils and fades into ignominy and a memory of beauty