#ace tolkien

[arofili]

@aspecardaweek day three | across the a-spectrum | demi caranthir

Now the people of Caranthir dwelt furthest east beyond the upper waters of Gelion, about Lake Helevorn under Mount Rerir and to the southward; and they climbed the heights of Ered Luin and looked eastward in wonder, for wild and wide it seemed to them were the lands of Middle-earth.

—The Silmarillion, “Of the Return of the Noldor”

picrew | for @oopsbirdficced

[novanillacake]

My modern!Fíli is a law student

[violecov]

Finarfin, third prince of the noldor (gaming style).

[themostineptthateverstepped]

There isn't enough acknowledgment of how fantastic LoTR and The Hobbit are in terms of asexual representation.

What do you mean Bilbo never married, but still adopted his nephew and enjoyed his little family and was surrounded by friends? What do you mean Thorin remained single and unattached for his whole nearly 200 years of living? What do you mean Frodo took after Bilbo and remained single his whole life? What do you mean these characters exist, and no one bats an eye at their choices??

[rocksandaces]

Tolkien: writes fantasy books with ace/aro coded main characters, very little romance and no sex scenes

His works become the most successful and respected books in the fantasy community

So no, having romance and sex is not a must have if you want to write a good story. The dragons are

[camille-lachenille]

So, I had an hysterically funny 1am though a few nights ago and have been rotating it since.

What if Fëanor and Nerdanel, known for having the greatest number of children amongst the Eldar, were actually both asexual/acespec?

The are disgustingly in love but not really interested in sex, but they are all for Science and ExperimentsTM, and they really, really want children, so they decide to conduct a lengthy and extremely thorough experiment about Why People Want To Have Sex. They pause while doing the do to take notes, they are complete nerds about it, they try new stuff and wonder "what if?" before doing bedroom activities yet unknown to elves.

They have seven children and end up publishing anonymously an incredibly scandalous book about sex life. It's a blast.

And the Ambarussa are the result of Nerdanel and Fëanor trying to find out a method to have children without having sex, and it worked a little too well, so they decided to stop. And also, their experiment was completed and they had A Lot of kids and they didn't see the point of keeping having sex since they didn't want more children.

[sotwk]

Hello! I was wondering, since Círdan has something of a place in the sotwk au, whether you're intending to write anything featuring him? (I ask casually, with very normal feelings about Old Ship Elf McGee)

I. LOVE. CIRDAN. If I ever stop being intimidated by the Silm fandom, I would LOVE to write a Círdan fic someday! XD My writing will never reach the exquisite quality of most of Silm writers I know (that includes you, @hobbitwrangler), but hey--maybe someday I will drum up the nerve to take the leap!

Círdan has more than just "something of a place" in the SotWK AU; he's a significant player! He participates in the lives of Thranduil's family many times throughout the ages, so there are plenty of storytelling opportunities. The Lord of the Falas and Master of the Grey Havens was never an idle bystander, and he was certainly not a lonely, solitary old man. In the SotWK AU, he had family from the very start.

Círdan's Roles in the SotWK AU

FIRST AGE

Círdan the Husband: He did love and marry someone--Eäriel, a granddaughter of Olwë and cousin of Galadriel, a headstrong and adventurous elleth who also crossed the Helcaraxë with her cousins. She soon realized that the destiny that called her to Middle-earth lay with Círdan, who loved her from their first meeting.

SotWK Fancast: Olivia Hussey as Eäriel

Círdan the Father: Círdan's beloved son and only child, Eärondir, was the gentlest and most reluctant soldier to perish in the War of Wrath. Although his tragic death caused his mother to fade, it did the opposite to his father; Eärondir's self-sacrifice inspired Círdan to remain and devote his life to the service of the Valar and the peoples of Middle-earth. Círdan's fondness for both Eärendil the Mariner and Elrond Peredhel was because they were deeply good-hearted, and reminded him of his son.

Turhir Thranduilion is said to look remarkably like his grandfather Eärondir in both face and figure, which gets him just a tiny bit of favoritism from great-grandfather Círdan.

SotWK Fancast: Alexander Skarsgård as Eärondir; Sam Heughan as Turhir.

SECOND AGE

Círdan the Grandfather: Círdan transferred all the love he had for his late son to his daughter-in-law, Laurinwen, and surviving grandchildren, Maereth and Calinondo. When Laurinwen sailed for Valinor, Círdan took over guardianship of her children when they chose to remain in Middle-earth. Even after Maereth and Calinondo left the Grey Havens to pursue their own destinies, Círdan continued to guide them from a distance throughout their lives.

Círdan advised Maereth through her hesitations surrounding Thranduil's marriage proposals, and even traveled all the way to Eryn Galen to attend their wedding.

THIRD AGE

Círdan the Great-Grandfather: As the great-grandfather of Maereth and Thranduil's children, the Princes of Eryn Galen, Círdan found himself in a special position of power. At any time and for any cause, he was able to seek military aid from Thranduil and his sons, and could always rely on a swift and valiant response. No other person in Middle-earth, not even Elrond, could boast of such an alliance. And a handful of Thranduilions were an army all on their own!

Círdan's influence was responsible for the participation of the Thranduilions in several historic battles during the Third Age, most notably throughout the centuries-long Angmar War. Whenever they answered their great-grandfather's summons, the Princes fought under his command and the banner of Lindon, so there was no historical record of Mirkwood's participation in these events.

When Turhir left Mirkwood in TA 2601 (after the deaths of Mirion and Arvellas) with the intention of sailing across the sea, Círdan took him into his home and counselled him for many years about where his true destiny might lie. (Hint/spoiler: It was NOT in Valinor. Yet.)

tldr: Middle-earth owes a great debt to Círdan's wisdom and foresight, and his unique influence on Thranduil's family is just a small part of it!

Thank you again for the ask, @hobbitwrangler! <3 I know this was WAY more information than you asked for, but it felt good to write it all out. Hopefully some of these will turn into fics someday.

Want to learn more about the SotWK AU?

Introduction to SotWK

Main Headcanon Masterlist

[avnasace]

honestly even if he is a pretty bad person in the silm i want more curufin content. like this is a guy who grew up with 'everyone sees me as a copy of my father and nothing else' syndrome. he was the son of his father, and the father of his son. thats got to be rough.

and with the oath and the many spirals of bad decisions, he is definetly not the paragon of goodness, but ultimately he is a person who was once loved, by a wife and son and brothers and parents and so i refuse to believe he is completely irredeemable in spirit.

its also interesting to me that he is the middle link between the creator of the silmarils and the creator of the rings of power, its quite sad, for a person literally named little father, and also even sharing a fathername with his father, that he has nothing to show for himself with his own craft is pretty tragic honestly.

[queeringclassiclit]

Frodo Baggins & Samwise Gamgee

from The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954-1955)

rematch of this poll

[fickes]

Aces of the Lord of the Rings: the potential, the seed, the beginning of the beginning

☞ buy the deck

[arofili]

@aspecardaweek day one | asexuality | finduilace

Finduilas daughter of Orodreth the King knew [Gwindor] and welcomed him, for she had loved him before the Nirnaeth, and so greatly did Gwindor love her beauty that he named her Faelivrin, which is the gleam of the sun on the pools of Ivrin.

—The Silmarillion, “Of Túrin Turambar”

[art from this picrew]

[echo-bleu]

Since you voted Gil-galad as your favourite ace elf headcanon, here's ace Gil-galad for Ace Week!

I have been putting off on actually settling for a design for him because there's no good way to reconcile my headcanons and still keep his parentage open to interpretation. This design lands him quite squarely in the "son of Fingon" case, though I have not done a proper design for either Orodreth or Finduilas (only a sketch) so I could adapt...

The four and six pointed stars are inspired by Tolkien's design of his heraldic device, though it's on purple here instead of blue in honour of the ace flag.

Queer Tolkien characters series

[classicbrion]

Reading the Lord of the Rings Appendixes and Tolkien being quite modern with socially accepted Ace dwarves. Yes there’s a cultural norm of monogamy for life, but also a lot of cultural empowerment for a series that has 4 female characters…

[mystery-of-arkham-asylum]

What even is sleep? Who even needs sleep? Anyway, another night stitching. This time I give you the symbols of the nations from Avatar. Also a leaf of Lórien brooch. Of course I had to include something from one of my favourite things ever.

[rocksandaces]

Honestly the Hobbit was a perfect book goblin asexual me could enjoy and then someone decided to turn that cozy magical adventure into a dark movie with two awful romances

It was already perfect why did you ruin it? I just wanted my dragon and treasure story!

[godteri-takk]

Happy pride to everyone on the aroace-spectrum!!! I headcanon Gandalf and Bilbo as aroace and they are besties<<3 yes i draw Gandalf with big naturals unironically!!! He's slaying!! Its not every pride that Gandalf has been able to be in the Shire with him, so Bilbo is real happy about it ^w^

God is the image quality absolutely horrendous when I post this or is it just me?? Please click it AND I REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME for better quality QwQ image description in ALT!!