#arathorn

[tolkien-povs]

POV:

You are the Dunedaín king with the shortest lifespan of 60 years.

[aspenrockymountainhigh]

ARATHORN II (T.A. 2873-2933, died aged 60) was the fifteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain. He was the father of Aragorn II, King of the Reunited Kingdom.

In the last year of his father's reign as Chieftain in T.A. 2929, Arathorn sought Gilraen as his wife. She was only twenty-two, and her father, Dírhael, opposed the marriage. He warned that Arathorn would not live long, yet Ivorwen, Gilraen's mother, who was gifted with foresight perceived that hope would be born from their marriage for the people of the Dúnedain. Thus, Gilraen and Arathorn were married in 2929.

The next year, 2930, Arador, Arathorn's father, was slain by trolls, and Arathorn became Chieftain. A year later, Gilraen bore him a son whom they named Aragorn. Young Aragorn would never know his father; in 2933 Arathorn went hunting orcs with Elrond’s sons Elladan and Elrohir, but was shot through the eye and died. Gilraen took their son to Rivendell to be fostered by Elrond.

(from Tolkien Gateway)

Art: Arathorn by Concept-Art-House

[aniseandspearmint]

LOTR AU idea:

How much more complicated would it make things if Arathorn was a trans man? He and Gilraen can't have a kid because of that, but they WANT one (also there's the whole thing about the line of kings and needing a blood heir, but that's secondary here) so, they need to do something about that right?

So, a plan is hatched. A list is drawn up!

A) They need a male with the relevant bits. B) It needs to be someone very certainly NOT anyone they know to be politically awkward. C) It very very much needs to be an individual disinclined to claim the child and cause trouble. D) It needs to be someone Arathorn and Gilraen are comfortable bedding a few times (A: ... well, you wouldn't have to if you don't want to? G: Shuddup, we are doing this TOGETHER.)

That .. kind of rules out a lot of people they know. Most of the rangers, most of the people that live in Imladris.

BUT THEY FIND A PERSON. (And if maybe one of those points up on that list is brushed aside, well ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

Maybe it's a simple married couple and genetic material donor have several encounters and then the donor walks away after a child is made thing. Maybe it became more than that. No one is telling.

However it goes, Aragorn happens!

Everything is fine and there's no fallout and- then Arathorn dies. And Gilraen takes their son to Imladris.

And Elrond takes one look at a child that definitely has FAR more than a trace of elven blood. And very familiar eyes.

E: Wh- who did you say you chose, when you and Arathorn decided to have a child?

G: A friend.

And that's all she'll say. Elrond managed to get her to confirm the friend was an elf, but that's all she EVER says.

... But Elrond knows those eyes. The curve of that jaw. Those curls are perhaps coarser yes, as edain hair often is. There is undeniably a great deal of Arathorn in the child, yes, but many traits that clearly came from elsewhere.

He wrapped his own small hands in hair like that a very very long time ago.

He can't not see Maglor Feanorion in his own foster son any more than he could unsee the sun. It's never confirmed, but-

Elrond has a headache (and a heartache).

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Aragorn is a peredhel AU!

Aragorn as Maglor's kid AU!

How much would this screw up things? Depends! Is Aragorn mortal, or does he have a CHOICE to make? *shakes the box of dolls gleefully*

I kind of like the idea of a have your cake and eat it too thing where Aragorn and Arwen still become King and Queen of Gondor, but its kind of like they're more of regents laying the groundwork for whichever child of theirs chooses mortality. Arwen Knows at least one will, she's Seen it.

It's nonsense I know, but it's FUN nonsense.

[whiteladyofithilien]

I just realized how extremely stupid the line in the films with Thranduil telling Legolas to seek out Strider is. Like its always bugged me because it felt so far off from where Legolas is at in the books when we get to LotR and even in the films. But it's so much worse...

Like you wanna know where Legolas is gonna find Aragorn?

With Elrond

And his mom

In Rivendell

Because he's TEN FUCKING YEARS OLD!!

HE doesn't even know his true name yet or really even that he's a Dunedain. He's literally never known a life outside of Rivendell. He's probably drawing on the walls with crayons and harassing Elladan and Elrohir to take him with them everywhere. What's Thranduil sending Legolas there for? Babysitting duty?!

Or does he just think his son is so legitimately stupid with the directional sense of a dwarf above ground that it's gonna take Legolas literally ten years to find Aragorn? Like the first place he would go to ask about this guy wouldn't be fucking Rivendell! Because everyone knows Elrond knows everything and we canonically know that Legolas has never been to Lorien or the sea prior to the trilogy so we know he's not hanging with Galadriel or Cirdan.

They took the chill wood elf who was doing the wood elf version of playing his gameboy with his feet up on the wall as he laid in bed for most of his life and leaving his room to do "chores" for his dad and tried to give him a completely implausible backstory. They really did Legolas so dirty in the Hobbit films.

I also do not approve of how they made him up. It's like they tried to make him look younger than he had been in the trilogy and succeeded only in making him look weird.

[estel-elrondion]

Arathorn son of Arador

The 15th chieftain of the dunedain and the father of Aragorn.

I like to think this is how he would have looked when he first met Gilraen.

This is also the first time I have drawn a human character from lotr, I think it has turned out decent

[blogfanreborn777]

Arathorn by Concept-Art-House

[comradefinwych]

[redpool]

Ok so this

Made this

Who made this (?)

And then made this?!

[msboggins]

"Fortinbras would like it to be known that you're giving him grey hairs, Miss Baggins."

The quiet words came from the newly arrived Ranger of the North, who had been asked by the Thain to check in on Bilba. Tracking the Company to Rivendell hadn't been difficult- Dwarves weren't inconspicuous at the best of times after all.

//Tossing a still alive but down one eye Arathorn your way! Also hiiii!

"As if he'd truly notice any new ones.~" The petite hobbitess rumbled with a proud laugh as she approached, a smile splitting across her features. Gently she untangled her fingers from the silken elven fabric - a new dress granted of their hosts who took far too much pleasure in the task. A bit...overdone for a under the hill dweller though far be it from the hobbit to disrespect the elves any more than the company had seemingly already had. "Besides, he tells himself how fetching they look when he gets a ladies attention." Green eyes danced with a curl of merry as she angled her head back enough to glance up at the Ranger before her. "How fare you this evening, Master Arathorn?"

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[greenlaut]

the four hunters 🗡🌿

extras + rambles below cut

yipeee i finally finished this illustration 🎉🎉

this is my personal take on the hunters gang (we will ignore that boromir died). honestly, i had a lot of fun thinking of the designs.

had to bring back my aragorn with his silly braid and blue hair ribbon. he's a ranger for most of his life, so he'd definitely go for practicality and what he's already familiar with—so no armour nor gambeson. he probably had a small fight with elrond before they left for the quest; where elrond tried to make him swap his gear for better, newer ones and aragorn just adamantly refusing because he's a lot more familiar (and more comfortable) with his own. which is why he's wearing tattered and worn rags. his red tunic is the only new thing he allowed elrond to swap to a new one. boromir definitely got exhasperated and somewhere down the line, he loaned aragorn his pair of arm bracers.

boromir (and faramir's (not featured here)) design changed a lot since the past years. it's a mash-up of both movie!boromir and lore accurate book!boromir. his hair is a lot darker and he has more of a storm blue-grey eyes as a nod towards his elendil ancestry. his clothing is heavily based off the movie. as for his cloak; since he's The son of gondor and denethor's favourite, i think he'd definitely get the fortune of wearing a fur cloak. the clasp has the white tree engraved on it.

gimli is by far my favourite. i always wanted to draw my take of gimli in his regalia. as a dwarven royalty, i think he'd groom his hair and beard really well, and he would've put on a lot of accessories to show his status. but since he's on a quest, he's not fully decked out in jewelries—wearing very practical clothing: gambeson with chainmail underneath. also, i like the dwarven fighting style they did in the hobbit movie where they go around and knock people off with melee. so gimli got hefty arm bracers and knuckle weights to really punch the shit out of some orcs.

for legolas; i think despite being an elf, he has the factors of being (1) mirkwood elf and (2) lowkey autistic coded. so he doesn't dress "like an elf"—not that the company would've known, with how limited their interactions with elves in general already. this meant that he dressed too casually despite going on a life-or-death quest. very light leather armour to support his speed and agility. he's not even wearing boots; just a pair of tree-climbing canvas shoes that he wrapped tightly. god knows how he survived this far. he's mostly a right handed archer—but since he lived for quite a long while, he taught himself to shoot with left hand too for emergencies. since his left hand isn't as stable as his right hand, he has a left-shoulder-pad.

THEY ALL HAVE SCARS because who doesn't get scars when you're literal warriors be fr. legolas' are more faded out though, because he's old as fuck.

close-ups:

fin.

[storkofyore]

“Not all men” yeah, you’re right. Aragorn, son of Arathorn, Gimli, son of Gloin, Legolas, son of Thranduil, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin “Pippin” Took, Meriadoc “Merry” Brandybuck and dare I say Boromir would never.

[paintsandquests]

Long live Elessar and Arwen, King and Queen of Gondor

[meteors-lotr]

Imagine the fellowship showing each other pictures and paintings of themselves as children

Everyone cooes over Gimli with the tiniest little beard and mini axe, the Hobbits all sleeping in a little pile of curls and tails, Aragorn in formal elven clothing but his hair is still as messy cause they couldn’t style it even if they tried, Boromir holding a baby Faramir cause he refused to part with him after he was born

And then Legolas shows the ugliest fucking thing any of them had ever seen, looking like a fleshy newborn bird with enormous eyes and ears, and he’s proudly boasting over how he’s seen as one of them most beautiful elven infants in millennium, and the rest of them are afraid to say anything because What The Fuck

[tehcherrya]

Departing Son of Gondor

Not to long ago my LOTR obsession rose from the grave, and it has been reigning ever since. What a time to have the art skills that I have now <3

(also yes, I am well aware I got the quote slightly wrong, forgive me, I was doing it from memory)