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I love unproblematic kidnap fam as much as anyone, but consider.

A variant of kidnap fam where Maglor grows to love and care for Elrond and Elros, but Maedhros doesn't. He keeps them alive, he makes sure they are safe and that their physical needs are met, but despite himself he can't help but resent them. He resents them for being the sons of the Silmaril thief Elwing. He resents them for being the sons of Ëarendil, who bears that stolen Silmaril through the sky, forever beyond their reach. He wonders if this is his penance for failing to save Eluréd and Elurín, and resents them for that too. Every time Elrond and Elros stay up late to look with wonder at the Evening Star, Maedhros has to bite his tongue to keep from cursing them and their entire line.

Maedhros hates them, and yet like Maglor he cannot help but grow closer to them. He wonders if it's just guilt, or if he could actually love them even as he hates them. He spends the rest of his time with them at war with himself. He even comes to hate himself, for hating innocent children when his own soul is blood soaked and detestable beyond measure. Maybe he even comes to resent Maglor, who at least loves the children earnestly. Can he even bring himself to confess to his brother his hatred of them?

I wonder how he feels when Elrond and Elros finally leave. Does he feel relieved that these living reminders of the stolen Silmaril and his crimes to retrieve them are gone from his life? Is it guilt for treating them so coldly and hating them for so long? When was the last time he thought of them, before his death?

Will I ever stop torturing him? Noooooooo

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brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

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Quick, on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 being terrible but unfunny and 10 being terrible AND funny) how bad of a pun would making my lotr blog's reblog tag "re-balrog" be?

9 because 10 would be “rebalrogballs” 😇

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in the would you fuck your clone meme, dior is either "i'd fuck my clone because who would know better how to fuck me than ME?" and "i'd totally fuck my clone because i want to know if i'm good in bed". hmm. it varies by day methinks

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y’all ever think about how during nirneath arnoediad morgoth purposefully delayed maedhros and then waited to unleash the monsters until he arrived in anfauglith, which meant that fingon spent the entire battle thinking maedhros abandoned him and maedhros got there just in time to see him die

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"Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and clean, and his voice like music; on his brow set wisdom, and in his hand was strength."—The Fellowship of the Ring, "Many Meetings"

My gift to my Secret Santa! This is my first time drawing Glorfindel, I hope I did him justice!

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correct!!

whatever maedhros gets mad, he threatens to raise taxes just to spite maglor

maglor only ever did his taxes when he was raising elrond and elros because maedhros made him

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Notes on Elrond, Gilraen and the Co-Parenting of Kings

Gilraen spends all of Estel’s Terrible Twos and Threes being completely and rightfully done with Elrond because the latter would accidentally undo any disciplinary decision the two of them make. Elrond and Gilraen would say, for instance, no sweets until dinner. Gilraen would stick to this but toddler Estel soon learns that it takes only 5-7 minutes of crying until Elrond both gives in and apologises to him for the delay. Gilraen is firmly convinced that the child’s toddler phase lasting twice as long as normal is entirely Elrond’s fault.

Gilraen has to deal with Elrond’s habit of saying completely unhinged stuff in plain view of Valar and Eldar. Once, baby Estel was wailing in his arms and had to be passed over to Gilraen because he was hungry, so she pulls on a scarf and starts breastfeeding the child. Elrond stands around looking morose and she feels sorry for him, assuming he was sad about his wife or something normal. That is, until he pipes up with “I wish I could do that” and “it hurts my feelings to know I cannot meet all his needs”. He is taken aback when Gilraen asks him what the fuck is wrong with him.

She’s the first person outside his close circle that he talks to about Celebrían, and oh boy does he TALK. Gilraen has never met the woman, but often feels like Cel is her very best friend, due to how much she knows about her.

Though there is absolutely zero romantic feeling between the two, Gilraen and Elrond spend the 20 years of Estel’s youth bickering like an old married couple. It gives them both an odd sense of normalcy and, in a way, relief from grief over their respective spouses. Would Gilraen and Elrond ever admit that the 20 hours they spent arguing over how often Estel needed haircuts and what style said cuts should be were some of the most fun they’ve had since their bereavements? No, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

When Estel was young enough for bedtime stories, they would alternate nights between them, with Elrond telling him stories of the First Age, and Gilraen telling him adventure stories of men and rangers. Estel’s favourite nights though, are the ones in which they collaborate and tell long, convoluted, nonsensical stories and argue over the existence of morals, teaming up to force the El-twins and Glorfindel to act as glorified puppets.

Elrond, who cannot exactly gossip with other elves due to his status, discovers his inner mean girl only in his friendship with Gilraen. The two of them are massive bitches, no two ways about it, to the point they even lock eyes at public dinners when someone is wearing something particularly gaudy or ostentatious (usually Glorfindel) and giggle away about it later. Straight up preteen girl shit, unashamed and unapologetic, to the point they have a set of inside jokes about most people in Imladris, including their children. If you think they sound like wine mums, that’s because they do. Cont’d under cut.

When Estel is thirteen, he faces his first heartbreak and goes to his mother, who quizzes the tearful boy about what happened. Estel explains that he had a crush on some girl from a village outside the valley and, on advice from an unnamed source, spent the past year not saying a word about it until the girl went and got herself an actual boyfriend. Estel doesn’t share the source of said advice, but that does not stop Gilraen marching into Elrond’s study with “when I said you should instruct my son to be like you, I meant in war and lore, not the art of being a tongue-tied twit!”

When Aragorn told his mother of his betrothal to Arwen, she congratulated him and told him she was happy for him. She also forced him to go to Elrond and confess properly, though he knew, and refused to intervene on her son’s behalf or ask his foster father to temper his anger. And after Aragorn went back out as a ranger and Arwen went to Lothlorien, it was Gilraen who went to Elrond’s study and sat with him for hours.

When she leaves to return to her people, he understands and obviously allows it. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t stop being a pain in her ass, mind you. At least once or twice a year, he would travel up to stay at her house and they would drink and chat and argue for hours, to the point that their neighbours simply refuse to believe that the weirdo in the garden trying to mansplain seed transplanting to Gilraen was, in fact, the ancient and esteemed Lord of Imladris. Imagine Gandalf but insufferable, and that’s what Elrond is for this specific Dunedain neighbourhood.

He does, of course, note as she ages and it begins to visibly grieve him. She notices this and on one visit, catching him look at her like he cannot bear to do this any longer, takes him aside and tells him not to come again, “because I will only grow older. Because my hair will turn whiter and my face more wrinkled and perhaps my teeth will fall out, my skin will sag, and I will forget who you are. And then one day I will stop growing old and I think watching a thing like this twice over will be the end of you”. He understands mercy disguised as cruelty more than most, and though there are many tears on both sides, he respects her decision.

Elrond understandably feels out of place and too small for his own skin in the immediate aftermath of Arwen and Aragorn’s wedding and takes to wandering aimlessly in his own gardens until he comes across the old memorial sculpture he had commissioned of Gilraen, and in a characteristic burst of eccentricity, starts chatting with it about the wedding. Tells her how ridiculous Glorfindel looked, how Aragorn fumbled the necklace (“butterfingers, Gilly, just like his mother!”), how he had to make Arwen take off the godawful tiara Celeborn got her and wear something normal, and how she would have “loved Bilbo Baggins, he’d have fit right in at our brunches”. It was absolutely batshit, him sitting there talking at a marble statue, but it was, in its strange way, incredibly comforting.

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1. They work similar to state versus federal income tax in the sense that you have to file at the same time if you live in certain realms but not all of them. Which realms requires one or both change often.

2. Yes. Because they became the legal guardians of those children. Maedhros is deeply concerned that this has legal precedent but isn't concerned enough to do anything about it.

3. Legally he is still able to work so he is not eligible for medical exceptions. The laws regarding Elven Disability are just as gnarled and vile as current ones. (Also he wasnt declared disabled as a minor so he wouldn't be eligible on those grounds either)

maglor only ever did his taxes when he was raising elrond and elros because maedhros made him

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elrohir's name roughly translating to "elven lord of horses" is so former horse girl coded and proof that he's a trans man, in this essay i wil...

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maglor only ever did his taxes when he was raising elrond and elros because maedhros made him

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now that i finished the silm i am back on my lotr the two towers grindset. aragorn son of arathorn i am studying you like a bug. every other sentence is all “he was tall and beautiful like the sea-kings of old” and then he does something like get down flat in the grass to listen for just how many horses gandalf summoned for them (as though that will not become apparent in minutes). he learned rohirric bc he spent part of his youth soldiering with them and he took the time to translate their song-lore into westron and to sing before their lords' graves. he tries to pull kingly rank in another king's hall, to the king's DOORMAN (crucial to note he also knows this king!), bc he doesn't want to give up his sick-ass sword. i love him your honor

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women in stem. women in root. women in leaf.

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Maglor? More like Faglor am i right???

*I am formally escorted out of The Gap*

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Maglor? More like Faglor am i right???

*I am formally escorted out of The Gap*

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Sauron: What’s your biggest fear?

Morgoth: I am incredibly arachnophobic.

Sauron, under his breath: You don’t want spiders to get married?

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Maglor: I don't know why I'm so thirsty, I had so much to drink today! I had a gatorade! With electrolytes!

Elrond: what else?

Maglor: an energy drink, two cocktails, half a soda - ok I'm seeing the problem now ‐