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hildorien · 1 year ago

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The whole “Elrond and Elros didn’t actually change when they made their choices,” always feels like people are just looking at Elrond but completely ignore Elros completely shifting his whole personality (at least publicly) to being a king of men. Like, when you choose the gift of men that’s it. Your mortal and your whole line is now mortal. It seems that Elros took that very literally. And frankly, I think that is so much interesting because 1) makes the later numenoreans even more dumb stupid looking 2) actually acknowledges that being mannish is like a thing like Elros comes from very defined cultures and it shows that he loved that side of himself so much that he defined himself by it in return.

#anyway. mortals unite #tea with milk #like I’m struggling remember where and if Elros was written with the same duality that his brother is #and I can’t remember anything outside him being described as a man #and maybe that’s because we are reading ‘duedian’ sources but to me that’s almost more important #unlike Elrond; Elros’ own people saw him #as a man as a human being as a mortal first and half elf #second like idk I think we need to get a point where we can accept that humanity and a love of mortality can be a choice someone picks #also never forget that even before she was mortal in a draft luthien was learning aduniac for Berne #I also think it makes Elros position of king better if he was like no I’m human I’m #a regular human man because yeah that’s how you win a election to king with a group of humans lmao

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