#at the Council of Elrond in the

[lightthewaybackhome]

Thus ended Beleg Strongbow, truest of friends, greatest in skill of all that harboured in the woods of Beleriand in the Elder Days, at the hand of him whom he most loved; and that grief was graven on the face of Túrin and never faded.

-The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien

[my-deer-legolas]

[gandalf-the-fool]

[autistook]

The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

[tales-by-alex]

'The Ring must be destroyed, and that the only way is to bring it to the fire of Mount Doom in Mordor, where it was forged'

The Council of Elrond

[littleguy-pi]

Legolas:

The entire rest of the council: yeah it’s soooooo good gollum is locked up in Mirkwood

Legolas: um

The council: really that’s the only silver lining. This is a terrible situation but at least gollum isn’t here

Legolas: so

The council: we’ve so much to worry about at least we know where he is and don’t have to dedicate resources to finding him

Legolas: haha um

The council: the elves of Mirkwood never let a prisoner out of sight! Except that one time but they’d never let that happen again they are so responsible

Legolas, tears in his eyes: y’all….

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Gandalf said ‘do not offer me that’, Galadriel said ‘I would be a queen, great and terrible,’ but Elrond said ‘get that the fuck away from me’ and this is nonsensical.

The other keepers of the elven rings were most challenged by the One, why not Elrond? Is his struggle merely hidden? Is it his Maia blood? Is it simply his mixed blood? Is that why Aragorn withstood, too?

Canonically the race of men are most easily corrupted, yet Elrond half-elven, who is almost 40% man, doesn’t notably bat an eyelash. Why?

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

POV: You, a figurehead of a nation, have travelled to another land for a meeting as a messenger of your nation’s status of the captivity of a prisoner you were entrusted with. You were relatively calm before your presentation, your speech practiced, and your spirit as light as your feet on the ground. However, before you conceived to give your testimony, a friend of yours (who had diplomatic immunity in the land) drew all the attention in the meeting to himself. He regaled his hardships with traveling as a man set to govern one day. He spoke of the nearly two decades he had spent tracking your prisoner, a War Criminal in many of the other representative’s territories, at the behest of the wisest in your vicinity, a martyr of your generation. You learn of the struggle to capture the murderer that constantly evaded him. A priceless heirloom is brought up in the conversation, as how could it not be? It was the cause of the very meeting. Several nations were called upon to contemplate its destruction as none could escape its manipulation, its corruption greater than that of money could ever tempt. And it was your convict that held possession of it before his imprisonment. Your friends admits that he is glad that the fiend is in chains, not hounding after the nephew of a treasured comrade of a sovereign kingdom, a friend of its King before his untimely death in battle. You shake in your seat unnoticed as you begin to realize that maybe the daily walks for your detainee through the forest should not have existed. You are next to speak. Your tongue feels heavy. You are shitting your pants. You are Legolas Greenleaf, Crown Prince of Mirkwood.

[theworldsoftolkein]

Rivendell - by AZED

His house [Elrond's] was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley." J.R.R Tolkien

[apathyislikeawoundedsoul]

Boromir coming to Rivendell: hey Elrond my brother and i have been having this weird dream lately, what's up with that?

Gimli coming to Rivendell: hey Elrond some Mordor guy showed up asking if we've seen some ring, should we be concerned?

Legolas coming to Rivendell: hey Elrond, we lost Gollum to a group of orcs, did we mess up?

Gandalf: btw Elrond Aragorn will be here any mi--

Aragorn coming to Rivendell with 4 hobbits in tow: hey Elrond--

Elrond:

[galadrielspeaks]

Legolas: oh yeah gollum escaped bc we would let him roam around and feel the free air… our fault for being so kind to our prisoners :(

Glóin:

[persea12]

Does nobody think it hilarious, that Sean Bean as an actor, participated in two Councils of Elrond?

[autistook]

The Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring

[spinnenpfote6]

Magazine promo pictures of Hugo Weaving as Elrond in The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, 2001

[mithrandirl]

ELROND in the LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) for @elrondweek