#dark narn au

[child-of-hurin]

thelioninmybed replied to your post “PLEASE TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS DARK AU”

Also I really don’t want Túrin and Nienor to have a falling out, it’s not my thing. I feel like they need to die together. <3 you are a romantic at heart

As soon as I typed it I realized I was importing feelings from my other fave incesty family, The Borgias hahahaha

@anghraine told me it’s common for adaptations to go with Cesare and Lucrezia’s relationship self-imploding at some point, which is not.... what i want... ever.... I’d rather see them die together than break apart, but that’s me, right? A romantic at heart 😝😝 

vardasvapors replied to your post “PLEASE TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS DARK AU”

AAAAAAAAAA JULIANA I LOVE THIS

this is alll sooooooo nicely thought out and stuff, like the parallel but super different dynamics among hurin's family in the AU, and all their personalities....

Thank u Andie!!! In all fairness there are a bunch of plot holes ahaha sghsdjnsjs but I’m keeping my eyes on the prize, which is a) T&N cuddling with monsters and b) looking goth hot :’)

(Also @nelyafinwes and @nyolofinwe thank u!! sdfsdjbgjdshjsdgsh <3 <3 <3)

[child-of-hurin]

swampdiamonds replied to your post “PLEASE TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS DARK AU”

sorry for zeroing in, predictably, on the nargothrond stuff, but I'm now absorbed in trying to imagine T & N interacting with ppl outside angband and like...how does that go

like they both have such big personalities in canon and (particularly in turin's case) their friendship/enemy-ship/idk with others is such a big driver of the narrative... and here they would still be recognizably "themselves" in some way, but like...raised in angband and working for morgoth.

RIGHT I DON’T KNOW!! I was talking about this with Kate yesterday, because the whole point is that they are still somewhat “themselves” in essence or what’s the point?

I think in Angband their socialization is very limited to a) slaves (of all sorts) and b) monstrous generals and captains, so I guess their only equal-to-equal interactions mostly happen among themselves... Kate also proposed they might be better at deception if they were raised in Angband which is like, mmmmaybe, but also they’re even less trained in human-to-human interactions, which also means they’d be treading on new soil (which can also be creepily funny tbh hahaha) 

So yeah, what happens when they interact to other people who are neither above nor below them in status? Actually, you know what, it would be bittersweet to explore this... Let’s say, spawn of Angband meets Gwindor in the forest and strikes up a conversation. At some point decides to follow them out of the woods and try to find out the secret path to the kingdom they come from. You could have them be silent like Túrin was in the canon trip, just not semi-catatonic.... Have Gwindor pour out his story & heart during the trip anyway and create a weird bond, but at the same time you have the shadow of their sibling on their heels, watching from afar... or just the shadow of their sibling in their hearts, idk. Maybe Nargothrond would be fascinating precisely for providing meaningful relationships among equals that this person has never experienced before... and of course they don’t know how to deal. It’s the CoH so it ends in ruin instead of redemption, BUT... I don’t know... sobbing, I don’t know!!! What are your thoughts??

ANyWAy sorry for the essay! This is very interesting and gave me a lot to think about!

PLEASE WRITE ME AN ESSAY AAA 😭😭😭😭