#but holy wow has turgon wormed his way into the center of my heart lately

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Psssst. Tell me your Turgon headcanons.

CASUALLY SLIDING INTO MY DMS ASKING FOR MY TURGON HEADCANONS, EH?

STRAP IN. [P.S. this is in no way exhaustive and most of it is early/background headcanony stuff.]

Putting this under a cut because things got slightly Out of Hand.

1. Turgon is an absolute WifeGuy, as Tolkien dudes go. He ADORED Elenwë for the time they were together in Valinor. One of my earliest headcanons is that Elenwë loved a kind of white flower that grew around Taniquetil (they look like edelweiss flowers, basically). She took seeds with her when they departed for Middle Earth, and Turgon found them among her possessions after she died. He planted them in Gondolin in memory of her and they grow wild all over the Vale of Tumladen.

2. Turgon feels things very deeply, but is very stoic externally. He is the quietest and most even-headed among Fingolfin's children, and the slowest to temper. (He refereed COUNTLESS sibling squabbles growing up.) He's most likely to show emotion in the presence of his wife and daughter.

3. I can't take credit for this one, but have read some speculation that because Earendil was once described as short and Turgon is the Tallest of the Tall, it follows that Elenwë was VERY short for a Vanya. So, height difference is a thing! (FOR A VERY CUTE FIC ON THIS EXACT TOPIC, CLICK HERE.)

4. The Helcaraxë FUCKED. MY MAN. UP. BAD. After Elenwë drowned, Turgon refused to let anyone else hold or tend to little Idril, not even Aredhel. He is EXTREMELY overprotective of her, and remained so as she grew older, but Idril never begrudges him for it. 

5. Related: Turgon is the #1 Girl Dad of Middle Earth-- he would do anything for his daughter. Their father/daughter bond strengthens as Idril grows and the two of them comfort and care for each other in Elenwë's absence. When Idril comes of age, she moves easily into the role of Lady of Vinyamar and later Gondolin. After long days debating matters with his lords, Turgon will often dismiss them and ask Idril what she thinks. He's more inclined to listen to her than anyone else and her voice has swayed him on multiple occasions.

6. Turgon's despair deepened after they first arrived in Middle Earth and his youngest brother, Argon, was slain in the battle at Lammoth. He white-knuckles a lot of it in public, maintaining always a level of quiet dignity, but Idril overhears him crying often whenever he's alone.

7. Turgon has a complicated relationship with the sea. After they married, Turgon and Elenwë visited the city of Alqualondë to visit the house of Finarfin. Elenwë was greatly enamored with the sea, and it was there in Alqualondë that Idril was conceived. In Vinyamar, Turgon built his palace so that his chambers faced west, overlooking the ocean, and Idril catches him staring out at it often with an unreadable look on his face.

8. Idril was the one who encouraged her father to go seek out his BFF Finrod at Tol Sirion after it became clear his grief would not abate. His time in the wild with Finrod helped ease some of his pain, and the vision of Gondolin allowed him to return to Vinyamar with a new sense of purpose and determination.

9. Turgon was operating at a low-simmering panic the ENTIRE time Aredhel was gone from Gondolin and no one could find her. He was quietly SO RELIEVED when she returned and then absolutely GUTTED when she died so soon thereafter.

10. When Fingolfin's body was brought to Gondolin after the Dagor Bragollach, Turgon laid the stones of his tomb himself. The only one he would allow to help him was Maeglin, whose gift was in mining and stonework.

11. When Tuor came to ask Turgon for Idril's hand, he initially gave no answer. When Idril confronted her father and asked him why, knowing that he loved and greatly respected Tuor, he confessed that it was because he knew that, being mortal, Tuor would die, and he couldn't bear the thought of her grieving the loss of a spouse like he had grieved for Elenwë.