#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).

[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.

[arlathen]

i went to bed thinking about dad solas. i woke up thinking about dad solas. ive seen people talk about him never having been a child. but the spirits observed the dwarves for... like, an incomprehensible amount of time. they certainly understood what babies were. and at some point elves started making more elves the fun way. and i am certain that was a point of fascination -- we all already know how to speak, but these little elves we made do not. let's study how they learn and how they think and how they develop.

my point is that solas absolutely knows these things. the concept of children is not alien to him. he probably knows more about child development than most people.

[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.

[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 слег��а схожу с ума....

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

№75 Мэрерид Крэйн, добро пожаловать!

[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

[antiqua-lugar]

apparently there is no way for my hawke and merrill to biologically have a child old enough to be Rook by the time Veilguard happens, so congrats on the adoption <3

[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.

[iniziare]

Slowly but surely, as I'm dying listening to ZL voice-overs in a playlist. Tag drop #1: OOC.

[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.