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Maglor Headcanons Because he's my second favorite war criminal

Horse Girl... that is all

he doesn't miss anything, an underhanded insult, a backhanded compliment, absolutely nothing, he has gut feelings that almost always turn out to be correct, and Maedhros trusts his opinions when it comes to his perceptions of people implicitly.

In the same vein he's also never forgotten a slight, he can forgive them, but he will not forget.

He has zero volume control, his voice will be the loudest in the room, if you tell him about it he'll start whispering and his voice will gradually return to its original pitch.

He never forgave himself for not being able to save Maedhros at Angband, he stood by Mae for the rest of his life especially towards the end less out of devotion and more out of guilt.

he absolutely sent Daeron a letter that just said "fuck off" at one point.

He was closer with Elrond than Elros, he used to tell him every story he could think of about his ancestors, over and over and over, he needed them to know that they were loved but his and Maedhros' blood and pain was not theirs to suffer.

He shared a room with Celegorm, when they were very very small, they argue in a way that only siblings who have shared a room can.

Where Maedhros' reaction to the Luthien incident, was largely yelling and threats, Maglor fully punched Celegorm in the face, and then immediately threw his lyre at Curufin's head,

Elrond DID FIND HIM AND CONVINCE HIM TO SAIL BACK TO VALINOR IN THE END. I am adamant about this you cannot convince me otherwise.

There was always a part of him that was bitter that Fingon was brave enough and defiant enough to rescue Maedhros from Angband, he was grateful he just couldn't quite let it go.

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Tbh Elwing's fate sounds a whole lot like smt you would tell a kid when somebody died, along the lines of "your cat moved to a nice farm upstate". So just imagine that at some point the Kidnap fam had this conversation:

Maglor: and then your mother turned into a bird and flew away

E&E: you know, we're not children anymore, we know that's not true

Maglor: no I'm not lying that actually happened

E&E: yeah right, let me guess, she also found dad and they're very happy and not at all dead

Maglor: I... yes, kinda???

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headcanon that elves do not have a higher alcohol tolerance than humans or dwarves. Legolas, having been raised by Thranduil "Partyking" Oropherion, was already given wine as a toddler and was just fucking with Gimli

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If Legolas had WhatsApp

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ꪶꪮ᥅ᦔ ꪮᠻ ꪻꫝꫀ ᥅꠸ꪀᧁᦓ ꪑꫀꪑꫀᦓ

ꪻꫝꫀ ꫝꪮ᥇᥇꠸ꪻ ꪑꫀꪑꫀᦓ

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Legolas is the Philomena Cunk to Gimli’s world renowned academic send tweet ✍🏼

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I feel like Bilbo would teach the elves of Rivendell the concept of a mathom with the express purpose of oh so politely asking them over dinner how were the Silmarils not a mathom

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i made this at 7 am after not sleeping for two days so i am TRULY sorry about all of the spelling and grammar mistakes

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rewatching lotr, and rewatched the hobbit trilogy like 2 weeks ago, and i must say. i love this franchise for all its “i knew a guy who knew a guy” relations. like to give just one example, gimli presumes for a second, like the whole fellowship, that frodo got injured by the cave troll in moria. but he’s actually just fine! because frodo just happens to be gimli’s dad’s boss’s situationship’s nephew, and therefore has the mithril shirt that gimli’s dad’s boss gave to his situationship right before gimli’s dad’s boss led the company to battle against, among others, legolas’s dad. legolas’s old situationship from like last year (60 years ago) was also there and chose, get this, gimli’s dad’s boss’s nephew over him. i love yall

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over-psychoanalyzing blorbos is healthy and needed enrichment for the girlies in order to avoid over-psychoanalyzing themselves. like giving a dog a chew toy in order to redirect chewing on its hind legs

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Thranduil being able to speak Khazdul implies one of two things:

That relations between the Woodland Realm and Erebor used to be so close that the dwarves taught Thranduil how to speak their secret language

Or

That Thranduil eventually picked up the language after hearing being spoken for thousands of years and just never told anyone that he understood it just so he can eavesdrop on the dwarves’s shit talking

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Only the elves really see Elrond as "half-elven." They focus, of course, on who he is in relation to them. He's sort-of an elf– enough that they can accept him into their society, but not enough to erase his differences. They understand the different parts of him– his propensity to get sick, his elvish-sharp hearing, his need for sleep, his immortality– as "elvish" or "not-elvish." And while they can be rather condescending about anything they see as "not-elvish," they aren't usually very curious.

Most men regard Elrond vaguely as a fae being. This isn't unique to him– much of Middle-Earth's changling and fairy stories were built on the strange human-and-not-human nature of half-elves. Of course, different humans regard them very differently– sometimes with respect, even reverence, believing that "fairies" are beings of great wisdom and knowledge. Others see them with suspicion and fear, viewing them as sources of danger and deception.

To the Numenorians, Elrond is just one of them– a kind of "immortal man." He is like them in several key ways– he gets ill, he needs sleep, he regards the passage of time in a very "human" way. More importantly, he is their kin, a living remnant and reminder of both their mythical founder and non-human blood they share. He acts as a healer and counselor when they need him. This is all well and good until some of them start thinking that if Elrond could make the choice to be immortal, surely they should be able to as well.

The dwarves see Elrond as an elf. They absolutely do not care enough to tell the difference between him and the others. He's immortal, he's always with a bunch of elves. He's an elf.

The Maiar do not really understand what Elrond is, and have kind of defaulting to seeing him as one of them but like, small. Look, they're all uncounted thousands of years old, he's a child to them. They dote on him and think he's adorable, but sometimes forget that he's also part-elf and part-human, and can't just drop his physical form whenever he likes to go be a disembodied spirit in the clouds. Gandalf encourages all their antics. Elrond is working on it.

(Contrary to popular belief, the average hobbit does not have any kind of opinion on Elrond Peredhel. Bilbo Baggins, who lives in his house and has written several long, extremely personal ballads about his family history, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted.)

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i'll do it for sam

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Hallmark Christmas movie but the salt-of-the-earth small-town guy moves to the big city and falls in love with the cynical career woman and they stay in the city and work side by side to make the world a better wait that’s Superman, once again I have just written Superman

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some elrond raising aragorn headcanons on this fine sunday (now illustrated):

1. Elrond's irl children have a running joke that he loves Aragorn more than the three of them combined but everyone knows it's just a joke and the truth was that he loved all his children equally: but his love for Arwen, Elrohir and Elladan could be split across thousands of years like a slow burning candle. But he would only have Aragorn for a century or two — simply a blink in the eye of time, so his love for him was fiery and blazing — a sandstorm in an hourglass.

2. Toddler Aragorn was 100% spoilt, and it was entirely Elrond's fault. Most of the Dunedain fosters would normally come to Imladris as adolescents, as per general medieval fostering custom, and leave by adulthood. Aragorn, however, came in as a baby due to his circumstances, and Elrond — whose last baby was a baby 2800 years ago — went FERAL

3. Baby Aragorn was the bane of Glorfindel's life. He would make it a point to personally torment him. Four year old Aragorn once braided Glorfindel's hair to his chair so remarkably it took Erestor an hour to free him. When Elrond found out, he gave Aragorn extra dessert for being clever enough to do such good braids.

4. The best day of Elladan's life was the day Aragorn got his first haircut at the age of three, because Elrond cried for some inexplicably paternal reason and Elladan prayed Mandos would strike him down in that moment so he could die laughing hysterically.

5. Have I mentioned that baby Aragorn was very spoilt? However, nobody in the House of Elrond said anything of it, because that baby being a little spoilt was small payment for bringing joy to a family shrouded in grief for centuries.

6. Aragorn was 10 when Thorin and his company passed through Imladris, and he was OBSESSED with the dwarven lord. He would follow him around, beg him to play chess with him, ask if Thorin wanted to hold his pet lizard. Thorin would never admit it, but he too grew to adore the boy across those few days.

7. The entire household of Imladris spent decades placing bets as to when Elrond would accidentally call Aragorn 'Elros'. Elrond, for his sins, made sure that he never once mentioned Elros to him — so that Aragorn would grow up knowing he was loved for being him, not a facsimile of a long dead twin... until the day they parted, and Aragorn put a small heirloom from his family in Elrond's hand. A tiny gold ring traditionally given to elflings on their first begetting day — that had once belonged to his own ancestor, Tar-Minyatur.

8. Elrond used to scare Elladan and Elrohir with the idea of Ungoliant when they were younger, but when they tried the scare tactic on toddler Aragorn, he was very excited and wanted to hear more about the enormous spider. So they had to resort to drastic measures and tell him about an even more fearsome creature that ate little boys who didn't go to bed: Arwen Undomiel, the giant werewolf prowling the forests of Lothlorien.

9. Many songs were sung about the final parting of Arwen and Elrond, a tragedy that would last beyond the breaking of the world. Less sung about was a quieter parting, where the Lord of Imladris watched King Elessar walk towards the gates of Minas Tirith for the last time — Elrond's final baby. His very, very last.

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The thing about Tianlang-Jun is he was a pretty happy go lucky dude with terrifying god like powers

But he doesn't want to use them to crush everyone in a sea of blood! Because he'd much rather be a goofy, silly, little guy who is obsessed with his fandoms

But everyone is nervous about the terrifying god like powers so he gets trapped under a mountain in unimaginable pain for decades while believing the love of his life betrayed him and never really loved him and only kept company by his loyal nephew who he tries to get to leave for his own sake but who won't abandon him

And then when he finally gets free, he transfers from his ruined body to a new one! That's incompatible with his qi so it immediately starts rotting

So he's stuck in a body that is swiftly rotting away

And sure he's planning a little eensy weensy bit of revenge but mostly? He's just excited to be a goofy, silly guy again!

He even found a new fandom!

Even as he casually deploys his terrifying god like powers...in order to match make his nephew with his favourite character from his fandom

He's the most weird dude and I love him

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