#annatar's behest

[runawaymun]

#and to reiterate: we have literally no descriptions of what Celebrimbor canonically looks like #there's nothing to say he looks like the ripped dark-haired twenty-something in your favourite fanart sorry

@verecunda you said what I wasn't brave enough to add to the post tbh thank you

I'm just going to say it. the attitude I'm seeing in the Silmarillion fandom from those who have never watched the ROP show, but are enjoying gifsets of the Annatar/Brimb scenes and expressing that it has them interested in those portrayals, while continuing to loudly assert that the Celebrimbor casting is atrocious because he's 'old and blond' fucking disgusts me.

[fairestfall]

Tolkien Verse Timeline ;; 

Pre-First Age/ Years of the Trees: 

Note: Valian years pre-first age are approximately 9.582 Sun Years. 

Y. T. 1087  -- A child is born to a captured elf in Utumno. Melkor names her Fëanehtar, the Spirit-Slayer, in the hopes that she will prove to be a weapon of great use against the Valar. After she is one sun year old, her mother is separated from her and corrupted, becoming Rukhash, the mother of orc-kind. 

Y. T. 1090-- To protect the Elves, the Valar embark on the War of the Powers against Melkor. 

Y. T. 1092-- The Valar arrive at Melkor’s stronghold, Utumno, and lay siege to it.

Y. T. 1094-- Seeing that he was overcome, Melkor has a small band of creatures under his command take Fëanehtar out of the Iron Mountains and to Angband. Young and afraid of what the other Valar might do to her, she remains Sauron’s charge. 

Y. T. 1099-- Melkor is finally defeated and captured. He is imprisoned in the Halls of Mandos for three ages. 

Y. T. 1400-- Melkor is set free from imprisonment in Valinor. Fëanehtar has worked with Sauron to oversee the growth of orc and troll hoards. 

Y. T. 1495-- Melkor destroys the Two Trees of Valinor, with the help of Ungoliant, the giant spider.

Y. T. 1497-- Melkor reunites with Sauron and Fëanehtar at Angband. Having but distant memories of Melkor, Fëanehtar attempts to rekindle a familial relationship, but such consists only of what she can provide her sire and the praise that he gives. Nonetheless, she clings to it because she has looked on the creatures of Angband and how they still have a sense of family and longed for a father of her own. 

Y. T. 1500-- The Valar create the Sun and the Moon from the remnants of the Two Trees; Middle Earth is no longer in darkness. Melkor is renamed Morgoth, “Black Foe of the World.” 

First Age: 

F. A. 1-- Men awaken in middle-earth. 

F. A. 50-- The war between Morgoth and the Noldor elves continues. Fëanehtar begins to have second thoughts about dwelling in the dark and laying waste to the other creatures of Middle-Earth. She loves it’s people, and she loves the green and good things. Morgoth becomes impatient and furthers his manipulation. 

F. A. 455-- Morgoth is finally able to overcome the Siege of Gondolin, in the battle known as Dagor Bragollach. Glaurung, the first dragon, attacks and destroys many Elves and Men. Fëanehtar, sickened over the slaughter, flees into the wilderness out of grief for her past sins. 

F. A. 467-- Beren and Lúthien succeed in their quest. 

F. A. 472-- Despite Fëanehtar’s, now Fáwë’s (Snow’s), strivings, Morgoth triumphs over both men and elves in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. Fáwë is gravely wounded and once again imprisoned in Morgoth’s stronghold. 

F. A. 510-- Gondolin, the last Elf Kingdom, falls to Morgoth.

F. A. 533-- Fáwë attempts an escape from the Iron Mountains by seducing an uruk-hai chieftain. Sauron intercepts them and brings them both to Morgoth. Morgoth kills the uruk and dangles Fáwë in chains over fire for three sun years. Her child, as a result, dies. 

F. A. 536-- Fáwë emerges unscarred, in body at least. Intrigued by her lack of disfigurement, Morgoth begins his own experiments in order to see how he can best use her talents to defeat the Valar. 

F. A. 540-- During one such experiment, Fáwë grows so wounded that the pain and anger overpower her reason. All living creatures around her are shrouded in darkness so that their hearts freeze and stop within them, and she screams so that Morgoth is nearly grown mad. After coming out of her trance, she looks at the destruction and hears her sire’s weak laughter. She weeps, silently swearing never to use such a power again. 

F. A. 545-587-- The War of Wrath. The Valar finally defeat Morgoth. The two remaining Silmarils are lost forever. The Northern lands, including Beleriand, are drowned in the sea. Mordor rises from the sea. Many Elves return to Valinor, but some remain in Middle-earth. Fáwë begs the Valar for mercy. It is granted, but she is not permitted to enter Valinor until she has reversed all the damage Morgoth has wrought. 

F. A. 588-- Fáwë leads a host of orcs and goblins loyal to her to the hills and mountains west of the sea of Rhún. Her kingdom is established. 

F. A. 590-- The Valar cast Morgoth into The Void, which is the nothingness outside of Arda. Fáwë’s aid and friendship is rejected by the remaining Noldorians. 

The Second Age: 

S. A. 1000-- Sauron begins building the fortress of Barad-dûr in the land of Mordor. 

S. A. 1200-- Sauron tries to corrupt the leaders of Eregion. Gil-galad refuses to trust him at Fáwë’s behest. 

S. A. 1500-- Disguised as a friend called Annatar, Sauron deceives the Elves of Eregion into creating the Rings of Power.

S. A. 1550-- Sauron offers a ring of power to Fáwë but is refused. 

S. A. 1600-- With the forging of the One Ring of Power, all the rings are complete. 

S. A. 1697-- Sauron destroys Eregion, the elf kingdom. Elrond survives and leads his remaining army and the refugees of Eregion into a valley north of Eregion. Elrond establishes Rivendell, which is besieged by Sauron. Fáwë comes to the aide of the elves. 

S. A. 1700--  Sauron retreats. 

S. A. 3261-- The last king of Númenor, Ar-Pharazôn the Golden, lands at Umbar to capture Sauron, because he has been threatening Númenor. Fáwë offers her assistance but is treated cruelly by the king and his court. She leaves Ar-Pharazôn to his fate. 

S. A. 3262-- Ar-Pharazôn the Golden captures Sauron. Sauron arrives in Númenor as a prisoner, but uses his powers to begin corrupting the Númenoreans.

S. A. 3319-- The Valar drown Númenor after Ar-Pharazôn challenges them at Sauron’s behest. Survivors of Númenor who remained loyal to the Valar arrive in Middle-earth under the command of Elendil and his sons Isildur and Anárion. 

S. A. 3320-- Elendil, Isildur, and Anárion found Arnor and Gondor. Sauron returns to Barad-dûr in Mordor.

S. A. 3429-3441-- The War of the Last Alliance begins after Sauron attacks Gondor and conquers Minas Ithil. Isildur cuts the One Ring from Sauron’s finger. Sauron is defeated. Fáwë spends the next few decades scouring the wastes of Mordor, not entirely assured that he is gone, and guiding her clan to settlements in the Ered Mithrim, north of the Lonely Mountain. 

The Third Age: 

T. A. 2-- Isildur loses the One Ring. 

T. A. 1000-- The Wizards arrive in Middle-earth. Snow befriends Gandalf and Radagast. 

T. A. 1050-- Sauron’s spirit arrives in the forest of Mirkwood, in an area called Dol Guldur. Allied with Thranduil and the woodland elves, Snow fights by their side and uses magic to keep his influence at bay. 

T. A. 1300-- The Witch-king of Angmar destroys Rhudaur, Cardolan, and Arthedain. 

T. A. 1980-- Under the leadership of the Witch-king of Angmar, the Nazgûl return to Mordor. 

T. A. 2002-- Minas Ithil falls to the Nazgûl after a two-year siege. It is renamed Minas Morgul.

T. A. 2050-- The Witch-king of Angmar challenges King Eärnur of Gondor to single combat. The king accepts, rides out to Minas Morgul, and is never seen again. His steward takes over the rule of Gondor.

T. A. 2460-- Sauron returns to Dol Guldur, ending the Watchful Peace. Snow attempts to push him away from Middle-Earth, but is gravely wounded. Her vessel dies and is then found by a traveling group of dwarves. They place her in a coffin wrought of glass and watch over her until she is healed. She then returns to her clan in the Ered Mithrim. 

T. A. 2845-- Thráin II is imprisoned in Dol Guldur by Sauron. Sauron takes the last Ring of Power of the Dwarves from him. 

T.A. 2941-- Snow aids the dwarves led by Thorin II Oakenshield in taking back Erebor. Smaug is slain by Bard the Bowman, and she is forced to slay her grandson, Bolg, in battle. Her clan forms alliances with Dale and the dwarves of Erebor. Thorin remains King of Erebor, and Fíli and Kíli are spared. 

T. A. 2951-- Sauron arrives in Mordor, where the Nazgûl have been waiting for him. He starts rebuilding Barad-dûr.

T. A. 3014-- Saruman begins to influence Théoden, king of Rohan. Growing suspicious of the darkness over Rohan and the silence of Fangorn, she investigates Isengard. Seeing how he has been capturing women and forcing breeding with orcs in order to create a new creature-- the fighting uruk-hai-- she infiltrates the fortress and manages to free a score of women and orcs. As a result of his battle with her, Saruman and his forces are severely weakened. 

T. A. 3017-- Gollum is set free after being tortured for information about the One Ring by Sauron’s forces.

T. A. 3018-- During the War of the Ring, Snow musters forces from her clans to come to the aid of Rohan and Gondor. 

T. A. 3019-- The One Ring is destroyed. 

T. A. 3020-- Snow presents herself to Aragorn in order to advocate for freedom and protections for the orcs who wish for peace or who were never allied with the Eye. Such is granted, and she and her people aid in the rebuilding effort, before retiring in Mordor. Snow renames it Varnalond, and it soon becomes a green land of plenty and welcome. 

[helreginn]

She let her eyes shift to the side of her face, subtly staring at him out of her periphery. It was a kind offer but Hel did not want Annatar mixed up in her mess. Any more than his sore face already had been, anyway.

"That's very sweet." She said, letting out a small breathy laugh. "But I would never ask you fight on my behest."

She lifted her chin and smiled proudly at his remark, "Yes. Yes I can."

"If there is someone giving you trouble, I will deal with them."

He may had set aside his evil ways, but he had not forgotten his methods, and he did not have any qualms about employing them in the service of revenge.

"Though if your fists are always so swift, you can handle yourself."