#before rivendell?

[elven-sisters]

Elwing with her boys!

Aren't they cute little smols?

[starvoidwolf]

Emperor of Rivendell

+ two other versions

[a-lonely-dunedain]

hi I drew Ethedis' mom Ethuilas, been very normal about her lately

[kindlythevoid]

One of the best parts of Fellowship of the Ring is finding out about Aragorn and Bilbo’s friendship. Like I’ve seen people talk about how they collaborated on the song together, but I have yet to see people talk about this:

“[Bilbo] turned to Strider. ‘Where have you been, my friend? Why weren’t you at the feast? The Lady Arwen was there.’”

Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring pg. 261

Like. Bilbo was definitely one of Aragorn/Arwen’s chief shippers and no one can change my mind about that.

[khyann]

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Im just gonna say Xornoth had no right to turn out so good

[eleneressea]

consider: Fingon gets catapulted into the future (specifically mid-Third Age Rivendell) from just after the Dagor Aglareb. So he's fresh off the victory—maybe it’s just after beating back baby Glaurung and this is dragon-magic at work—and he wakes up in a future in which everyone is dead, Morgoth's gone at the cost of all of Beleriand, there were two more kinslayings, the Oath is still unfulfilled and all the sons of Fëanor are dead which means Maedhros is in the Everlasting Darkness where Fingon can't reach him,

and he has no idea how to prevent any of this because there's maybe three people left who remember the Dagor Aglareb and one of them is Fingon

[anghraine]

Maybe it's just because I'm sleepy and my brain is tired and irritable, but I do wish fandom in general weren't so absolutely intent on casting all familial or quasi-familial relationships into some near approximation of US nuclear family idealization.

Acting as a caretaker for a child doesn't automatically make someone their "real parent" or "adopted parent" or "any parent at all" if the child doesn't see them that way. These caretaking relationships can be messy, begrudging, or essentially coercive (in both fiction and IRL, and in life, forcing children into situations where "they'll be taken care of" is often coercive and/or predatory).

And sometimes a caretaker adult, whether a natural parent, adoptive parent, some kind of guardian, or more amorphous caretaker, is ... bad, actually. It's understandable for the children they take care of (whether literal children or now-adult people who experienced it previously) to have had negative experiences they have complicated feelings about, to have complicated feelings about their caretakers that may not distill down to "real parents", to be capable of harsh criticism of their former caretakers, even if they love them.

Sometimes it is the simpler scenario where a child is adopted and it looks very much like a conventional "nuclear" relationship (though even then, the child can have more complex and inconvenient feelings than they're often supposed to have). But—okay, I may be biased from coming from a family that was licensed for foster care, which saw a lot of children essentially forced into foster care with varying complicated feelings about it that didn't always equate to "this person who looks after me is my mother"—even after a long time, sometimes.

And there's frequently a nasty pressure on children placed in "care" to either reach out to their birth or adoptive parents, or to wholly turn their backs on them and accept their current caretakers as the only parents who matter. But usually things are messier than that. You can care about a caretaker, you can respect and love them, and still not feel like you're their child. Or maybe you do! It just depends.

This can happen with siblings as well, especially when there's a big age difference—yeah, one of the siblings may be functionally filling the shoes of their parents as well as they can, but it doesn't necessarily make them actual parents in the eyes of their younger siblings (or themselves). It can, but doesn't have to. Or maybe it's something messier, like when the relationship is almost parental, but not quite, and the exact nature of the dynamic is hard to pin down.

There's also the case where the relationship may have been parental at one point, but one of the parties (usually the caretaker) burned bridges so badly that the child (often an adult at this point) cuts ties and doesn't deny that the caretaker filled a parental role back then, but wholly rejects it as any kind of current reality. This can happen with biological family, but also with looser caretaker relationships as well (esp the cultier ones).

I'm thinking of a lot of fandom examples of these kinds of indeterminate caretaker-child (or former child) relationships, where either we know or have good reason to believe the child doesn't regard a former caretaker as exactly the same as a parent, or we just don't know what the nature of the relationship is, and fandom will be absolutely insistent that the only possible way to read it is parent-child.

And also, sometimes there's nothing wrong with the caretaker relationship, but it's still not parent-child. It simply doesn't map onto this parental mold that fandom tries to box all adult-child caretaking relationships into, because family is more complicated than a single, very simplistic model allows.

[maglorslostsilmaril]

hc that as a side effect of the oath, the sons of feanor, as they became more and more silmaril-obsessed and oath-driven, start to become more and more like the things they swore the oath to.

like, they begin to look faded and washed out, aside from their eyes, which turn blindingly bright.

despite all the evil they’ve done, the silmarils are hallowed by varda, and so their skin burns to the touch of those who have also done wrong.

(also i think they should glow in the dark a little bit. as a treat.)

by the end of it they’re more wraiths than anything else, halfway between elf and those oathbreakers in RotK; the oath not only mentally but physically consumes them.

[minecraftbookshelf]

Mr Scott Smajor himself

I couldn't decide which part to put on here so its a bit long, enjoy! (This one also has a lot of Xornoth. They also come as a set in this au. There are a lot of people who come as a set in this au.)

Scott isn't in the north-side sheep pen. Xornoth wasn't really expecting him to be, but its on the way to the owlery so it was worth checking just in case. And if it is also a little bit of procrastination that is between them and the voice in their head. Just when I think you can't get any more pathetic- And they aren't listening to the voice in their head. "-At least now I can stop waiting for the other shoe to drop I guess." Xornoth peeks around the corner of the stairwell, almost kocking their antlers against a lantern but managing to dodge it at the last second. Scott is sprawled on the floor, or well, his version of 'sprawled' which means sitting slightly less than bolt upright, legs criss-crossed and elbows on his knees as he stares down an owl that Xornoth is fairly certain belongs to one of the librarians. "I did get more than half a century, I guess. That's more freedom than I though. And it will be good for Rivendell, we really don't have any solid alliances other than the Overgrown and the Lost Empire. If I can do this for my people that's a good thing." Xornoth slid down the wall to sit on the stairs, just out of sight. The crown on their head had never before felt so heavy.

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AU Masterpost

[rohirric-hunter]

Trying to trim The Shadow Rises down to under two minutes. First attempt got it down to about three, but at this point things get a bit more challenging because there aren't really any bits in it now where I'm like, "Yeah, we can probably lose that." I have to make sacrifices now. Also it's a bit harder to splice pieces together now.

[justpostsyeet]

Lindir is generally considered a painfully shy and patient elf by the fandom but i have a headcanon that he's the most dangerous guy in Rivendell.

Hes good till he's good but when he's angry not even Elrond, the lord of Rivendell wants to face his wrath, that's why dwarves left nobody bothered to call them back because nobody wanted to invoke Lindir's infamous wrath by bringing back the dwarves.

[lorata]

everyone makes fun of the tonal shift mid-Fellowship but uh

Hitler invaded Poland as Tolkien was writing the end of Volume 1 (Frodo stabbed on Weathertop) so

it makes perfect sense actually

[themistymountainscold]

watching the extended versions of the hobbit finally and omg it’s everything

[themoonking]

i will never understand why peter jackson decided to make the dwarves so awful when they stay in rivendell. this is a conscious change that gives nothing. they’re our main characters that we’re supposed to like, WHY would you make them rude and discourteous to their host(s) for literally no reason?

because bestie elrond is bestie elrond, he’s letting 14 guys he’s never met stay in his house as guests, and the company responds by starting a food fight, bathing in a fountain, tearing up furniture to start a fire, et cetera et cetera. it makes them look like awful people who love being destructive at worst, and complete fucking idiots who can’t see what’s wrong with their behavior at worst.

[artemisbarnowl]

The extra scenes with faramir all add so much! To the story as a whole and to the relationships between boromir and faramir and denethor and even though we all hate denethor they make him less 1 note idiot incompetance begets evil guy into a more complicated asshole. And also to see faramir as the 'ordinary' man with potential for good, hes Likable, unlike any other man aside from Aragorn. Hes Aragorn without a destiny or divine blood. Hes Eowyn but male and still trapped in a cage of (low) expectations. Also he is Nice to the hobbits. He is not only thinking of his place and his ambition and his kingdom he sees the bigger picture and sees that preserving goodness is his and everyones task. Hes Samwise Gamgee raised in a city of stone.

[nativemossy]

watched the fellowship of the ring for the first time while high last night and the most i remember is that i was extremely upset they cut tom bombadil out of the story entirely