#but curvo and aredhel being friends is very interesting considering how different they appear to be

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#ive noticed this too!!!#i think it has something to do with fanon Curufin- he is seen as not having friends or unable to be friendly to anyone but celegorm#which is fine! but i dont think it rounds him out very well in terms of characterization#also could be the fact that Celegorm already fills the 'jock' role for the whole nerd and jock trope that also surrounds them#also a lot of fanon has Aredhel be closer to age to celegorm then curufin too- so Curufin is seen as a little brother then a friend#i think it comes down to fanon tbh#exploring the aspect of Curufin being a semi/knowing how to hunt isnt really explored much in fandom- though i SWEAR tolkien said he was#a good huntsman at one point?#i think also the fandom seems to regard celegorm in a better light then curufin too#not that both of them are very good (the whole luthein situation) but the fandom skews to celegorm more then curvo#so celegorm being friendly with aredhel shows him in a semi better light then curufin- who fanon seems to think was evil from the cradle#if celegorm can be seen as having friends then that means that he is more 'socially' better then curufin and this also has to do with how#people view people with not that many friends as 'socially unaware' ect ect so i think that also skews this#people can generally use aredhel to make celegorm have a better side while also using their non friendship to make curufin look even worse#im so sorry for rambling in your tags op#i have a lot to say about how people seem to do curufin dirty in terms of making him cartoonishly evil without using canon as a basis#like yea the feanorians arent good people they did evil things#but use canon to base things on instead of making stuff up full cloth#curvo is definitely evil this isnt me trying to say he did nothing wrong#oh but also- its so interesting to me how he showed honor if misplaced with eol (via @curufinswife)

It's interesting to me how Celegorm is almost universally posited by fandom (or at least extremely broadly) to be Aredhel's best friend, while her friendship with Curufin--mentioned in precisely the same sentence in the book--is almost entirely overlooked. Someone do a psyche analysis of this.