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silvantransthranduiltrash · 2 years ago

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Silvans Before the Sun

Head-cannon that the silvans of Greenwood have the largest population of elves that were born before the sun and moon, you just can’t tell because, unlike those that are from aman, they do not have the light of the trees in their eyes to indicate their age.

This, coupled with the very chill carefree spirit of most wood elves means that pretty much no one realizes that there are any elves in Greenwood at all that are from the years of the trees.

Legolas introducing a friend of his to glorfindel: and this is Glorfindel, Imlardis’s warrior captain.

Friend: you’re from aman, weren’t you? I remember the day we first got word that the noldor came back to eastern shores at the beginning of the first age-

Glorfindel, who thought Legolas’s friend was only a few millennia old: huh

The twins, who have known the friend for a while and thought the same: hold on, wHAT-

#silvans #lord of the rings #lotr elves #silmarillion #the hobbit #Greenwood is the casual home of some of the most ancient elves in existence #there are actually a few elves that predate the time elwe finwe and ingwe first went with orome #this shocks everyone not in the know #as usual #the silvans love their secrets #the shock factor is amazing #wouldn’t it be hilarious if thranduil was straight up as old as finwe #but no one realizes it bc they thought oropher was younger than finwe but that’s false #shamelessly pushing my ‘Miriel and Thranduil are twins’ agenda #the twins @ legolas: how old are you?#legolas: not as old as I could have been but older than you think #the twins: ???#legolas greenleaf #thranduil #shamelessly pushing my ‘miriel and thranduil are twins agenda’

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