#elven children

[the-elvenprince]

Baby Leggy 😍🥰

[peasant-player]

Everyone in the Tolkien fandom who spent hours to makes ellaborated charts, name descriptions, little drawings and every other thing to help get to know the characters better.

And get like 3 views

Know that I love you and hope your life is filled with kindness.

[cinnamonsikwate]

i'm really curious about what marcille's mother's deal is. seems like she's not too big on the rest of elven society. here's what we know about her so far:

mage at a human royal court (adventurer's bible)

courtship with marcille's father donato lasted 17 years (adventurer's bible)

specialty is roast pork, which was also donato's favorite (chapter 81)

had a cheerful personality up until the point donato got too sick to eat his favorite food. her extreme emotional reaction to this left a lasting impression on marcille (chapter 81)

remarried to a gnome and moved away from the city at some point after donato died (adventurer's bible)

several portraits of her appear in marcille's nightmare (chapter 42); this is the second time we see marcille dream of her (chapter 3)

preferred non-elven food and didn't introduce marcille to any traditional elven dishes (chapter 74)

from the canaries' reactions in chapter 74, it appears elven society looks down on elves who go to live among and work for short-lived races. they seemed especially put off that she would have a mixed-blood child. when they're talking about the lyrikmumare to get marcille to trip up, marcille envisions her mother saying that the food "here" (i.e., the northern continent) tastes so much better. so the picture we're getting here is of an elf who has removed herself from elven culture, but the question is, did she do it willingly or was she forced to?

keeping her other actions in mind, i'm leaning more towards the former. the most intriguing thing for me is that she eventually married a gnome, despite elves and gnomes having infamously waged war against each other over differences in the practice of magic and presently tending to discriminate against the other on sight. (one thing's for sure — marcille's mother is winning the idgaf war!)

marcille never talks about her gnome stepfather though, and it's unclear what she thinks of her mother's remarriage. the timing of the remarriage is also a mystery. donato married marcille's mother when he was 32 (after having courted her for 17 years) and died at 82, meaning they were married for 50 years. marcille is also currently 50 years old, but we know she wasn't born immediately after the marriage: in chapter 81, donato's doppelganger says marcille was born when he'd started "getting on in years." based on marcille's memories of him and the established fact that the average tall-man lifespan is 60 years, i'd hazard that he was in his 50s then. this gives him 30 years or less with marcille — definitely less than 35, which we know is the age at which she left for the magic academy.

we don't know if marcille's mother remarries before or after marcille leaves (if before, than that's definitely a shockingly short time), but it's interesting that she chose to marry someone from a long-lived race this time. maybe this is her way of ensuring she spares herself another heartbreak? or maybe she *is* still heartbroken and is trying to cover it up.

but. i can't help but kind of agree with chilchuck in chapter 81, that marcille's parents are not blameless for marcille becoming the dungeon lord. since it's apparently well-documented, they surely must have known — as well-educated people — that mixed-blood children face not just discrimination but also mental anguish that comes with their unstable aging (not to mention the sterility). so the way they raised marcille feels frankly irresponsible 😭

anyway. i'd love to get spin-off content where post-adventure marcille and her mother meet again. i feel like there's a lot of unresolved issues there (that can of course be hashed out over a good meal).

[an-eldritch-peredhel]

The thing that draws me most to this fandom, and the things that makes it unique, is that by the mere nature of the works we love, everyone's Arda is different. And not just in the usual headcanon-y ways that are typical of every story, but even down to important plot and characterization points.

Who is Gil-Galad? What is the Oath and what does it have power to do? What really is the Dagor Dagorath? How do the Laws Of The Universe work?

And beyond that- what parts of HoME do you pick and choose? LaCE? Does anyone try and work with Tolkien's horrendous math? Have you taken parts of your Arda from older or other worlds, with the Cottage of Lost Play and the exile of the Gnomes?

Have you given names to the wives and daughters? What do they mean- who are they? Mother-names or father-names for those who only had one?

I just really love how even when two interpretations of the same world seem utterly incompatible, they aren't. I'd love to see other additions/headcanons!

[lepetitdragonvert]

Wie die Elfein durch den Winter kamen

Verse von Paul Langbein

Stuttgart

1925

Artist : Auguste Langbein-Mährlen

[depressedandasian]

Imagine if Kagha was recruitable so we could have her, Astarion, and Minthara in a party together.

Just three evil elves bitching all the way to baldur's gate.

[amynriel]

Кто-то звал брюнета? Их есть у меня! Сам пришёл к двери. Грех не воспользоваться!!!

Хоба и дело сделано! Уже толпа детей а с двойняшками я слегка схожу с ума....

Скорее бы старший стал подростком чтоб помогал с детьми...

№75 Мэрерид Крэйн, добро пожаловать!

[onedivinemisfit]

I had a dream here the other day, set in the Frieren universe; it was about this elf lady, she lost her village to a demon attack, and so to preserve her legacy, she took a human to husband and had a bunch of kids with him. Her kids later founded a village, but by the time of my dream, no one remembered anymore that they had a link to the elf living on the hilltop. It was very melancholy.

[thelien-art]

Estë is bestë

(I know you already drew them,

but I needed to say it)

Bestë♡♡♡

Y´all really love her?? Honestly, she´s a fav for me too

[dracaeons]

what's so nice about veilguard is that it really shows you can be a single father and still be a hero saving the world. we got lucanis, davrin, emmrich, varric—

[conversacomsmaug]

Eu encheria eles de elfinhos nas Fics rs

[limielle]

cant stop thinking abt this man LMFAOOOO

[morgancrystal]

thumbnail doodles for a piece I'm almost finished with. I'm just trying to gather the courage to take out my metallic paints.

[silksworn]

not a daddy, but a Father

[santaworksofficial]

Meet Peter and Priscila, the angelic twins

Compared to other angels, they are smaller in height and much more childish.

they both have heterochromia (two eyes different color)

I’m wondering if I should do the snow people or the gingerbread people next.

[shadowglens]

many thoughts and feelings about gale meeting olympia’s dad