#and even elrond

[sapphoismymuse]

rewatched aragorn’s coronation scene and i just realized you can see elrond’s heart breaking as she goes to join aragorn

like, that is the face of a man who was promised eternity with his daughter, a reunion in the west no matter what happened, only to lose her forever to love

[chirpovs]

one of my favourite bits of headcanon within the tolkien fandom is how Gil-galad is only maybe, possibly, dubiously, potentially actually the rightful king of the noldor and how Elrond is absolutely not questioning this nor letting anyone else question it because he's doing his very best to dodge the crown

[pastelsugar6w6]

Elladan and Elrohir: *bickering like typical siblings at the dinner table*

Thranduil: Control your barbaric children, Elrond. They should be more refined in company. They should behave more like my Legolas. *gestures grandly at his son*

Baby Legolas: *squatting in a tree breaking open an acorn with his teeth like a squirrel*

Elrond: ???????

[corsairspade]

there are many reasons I like the "Erestor son of Caranthir" headcanon but secretly the main one is that I'm imagining all of the remaining noldo auditors sighing of relief when Caranthir dies and they don't have to try play 4d chess with multiverse time travel trying to catch this guy doing tax evasion. life is good for exilic auditors now.

and then suddenly Elrond and Elros turn up again! even better! oh who's this, Elrond? your good friend Erestor? he's helping you with your taxes? oh how swe- what is this Elrond. What is this. your paperwork for your taxes you say. not a declaration of war? because it looks like a declaration of war on the exilic auditors, Elrond.

and then all the auditors are so busy doing "extreme tax auditing™" for the first time since the second Kinslaying that they don't tell anyone they're pretty sure there's another scion of the house of Fëanor running around.

[bonnie-bonnie]

[armenelols]

Gil-galad deserves to be the longest ruling noldorin high king in Middle Earth. Something about being born into a disaster world, surrounded by idiots who keep fucking up and keep getting blown up in increasingly wild ways?

Nope. It's time for the rise of competency. Does no one here have a single working brain cell

On another note, this explains why he and Elrond were immediate besties

[braxix]

Sauron: What the fuck is wrong with you?

Elrond: According to everyone, a lot.

[oroniel]

RoP gave us a kiss that was full of emotion but entirely devoid of romantic subtext, and next episode we're going to get a sword fight so charged with romantic and sexual tension that people are going to actually lose their minds.

Adar is simultaneously praising the beauty of a woman (Melian) and a man (Elrond), while also simultaneously praising the beauty of a Maia and a half-elf. While also caring for his enormous family of uruk children. He is a person who literally changed his state of being from his birth-form in order to obtain the life, and children, he wanted.

Sauron's talking about some messed up masochistic relationship with Morgoth, and crying when Adar recalls how beautiful he used to be. He's doing all kinds of fascinating line-crossing when it comes to gender, like he's just decided to conjure up your worst evil non-binary nightmare as he flirts with Mirdania, minces around in his pretty dress and hair-bow, acts like a clique-y mean girl when Celebrimbor calls him out in front of the other smiths, and then slaughters guards with expert swordsmanship and sorcery.

Meanwhile Galadriel is effortlessly switching from armor to fairytale princess dresses, expressing unbridled rage and endless compassion, being maternal to Theo and a mentor to the Numenorean guard as she tutors them in swordplay, and generally projecting a female character who is, per Morfydd, not raised to feel ashamed the way women are in our society.

This is queer Tolkien. It's messing with our culturally encoded understandings of the signs and signals of relationships, gender, family, and friendships. It's messing with our understanding of how we define the potential of individuals and relationships.

Am I confident that they're doing all of this consciously? No.

But am I any less delighted by it?

Also no.

It is so fun and I love it.

[unearthlydust]

okay but they were insane for this

[thesummerestsolstice]

So Elrond and Elros are six when the Third Kinslaying happens, right? Given that they're half-elves, they might be "younger" than a human six-year-old, more in-line with elven development. For children that young, memories are often patchy and foggy. I certainly don't remember much from the first six years of my life. Add childhood trauma, which can distort or suppress memories, and there's a pretty good argument that Elrond and Elros might not really remember Sirion, or their parents.

And that idea... really gets to me. There's so much to explore there in terms of grief, and guilt, and the desire to live up to the legacy of someone you never even knew. There's also an asymmetry there– E&E's parents remember them. Hell, Earendil might be able to look down on them in Middle-Earth while Vingilot is in the heavens. But Elrond can never look back.

[frodosrings]

okay here is my typeface nerd post

what font would the members of the fellowship be?

FRODO : Garamond

this just makes sense to me. I couldn't decide if frodo would be a serif or sans-serif font, but garamond just fit for me the moment i thought of it

SAM : Helvetica

maybe some would disagree with this, but i knew sam would be a sans-serif font the moment i thought of him, helvetica just seems like a good classic

ARAGORN : Constantia

this man is the epitome of a serif font, ESPECIALLY one with old style numbers

GIMLI : Impact

sans-serif obviously, impact just feels right. bold and loud just like gimli

LEGOLAS : Kingsguard Calligraphy

he is definitely some sort of script font, something loose and easy like kingsguard.

BOROMIR : Baskerville

this is the only one i will NOT be taking criticism on. boromir is the absolute epitome of baskerville and i will die on this hill

GANDALF : Old English

like duh do i even need to explain

MERRY : Papyrus

don't even try to disagree, you know i'm right. if the papyrus font had a mascot it would be merry

PIPPIN : Puckery Tart

perhaps worse than papyrus but undeniably true. he's goofy and needs a goofy font. is it that rae dunn home goods font? yes it is, but let's pretend it is not

[anetherealpoetess]

someone made an absolutely hilarious elrond and durin tiktok edit to a twink and a redhead (the lyrics being name a more iconic duo than a twink and a redhead) and my favourite of the top liked comments was: this would send robert aramayo into anaphylactic shock

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

Tolkien, repeatedly and consistently: Whatever Denethor's flaws he was one of the most learned and wise Men in Gondor.

Fandom, inexplicably: Denethor hates Faramir because he reads books.

[not-an-atla-blog]

Elrond and Elros, SA 109, colourised.

[greenleaf4stuff]

If Adar had tried to flirt his way into defeating Sauron instead of besieging Eregion

Adar, looking at Celebrimbor: Your forge is grander and better equipped than any of Fëanor's have ever been. In see in you all of his greatness and talent but few of his flaws. And your smile is warmer than any fire and lights up any room-

Annatar, jaw twitching: Celebrimbor, he is clearly-

Celebrimbor, with literal anime heart eyes towards Adar, waving Annatar off: No no, please, let him speak...

(inspired by this post and reblog by @ivorybilledwoodpecker and @saraptor)

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

Y’know what would be hilarious and horrible in equal measure? Kidnap fam in Valinor, except all the childhood stories horrify the Valinor-Parents.

Like, Feanor is trying to bond with his shoplifted grandson and hears a “funny” story about Elrond & Elros running away, and hearing Maedhros’ thundering footsteps chasing after them.

The whole imagery of the story is terrifying to Feanor, who was raised lovingly in a peaceful environment himself and raised his sons in a relatively peaceful realm.

To be so small, and have to run so fast, only to be caught in the end. It’s a terrible image. Yet Elrond tells the story with the intonation of someone speaking of a beloved childhood fable. Maybe the lesson of this particular fable was that the children would always be caught if they ran. It doesn’t matter, because here sits Elrond, and here sits Feanor, and Feanor cannot change anything.

Similar events occur with the other Valinor-Parents.