#family gil

[purzelsims]

One of my favourite things about restaurants is seeing other (played) sims eating there as well.

[sesamenom]

Gil-galad Variations, featuring all the gil galad theories i've encountered.

[melorambles]

Elrond as Gil-Galad's Herald should be portrayed more often as a polite political fiction. Like, Elrond's heritage should put him in a very important political position, given exactly how many lineages of kings he's related to. But he's basically allergic to being in charge and every time a council member mentions Elrond getting named the heir, Gil-Galad has to spend half a day talking Elrond out of a tree. But they can't disregard it completely because there are plenty of elves whose loyalty is tied closer to Elrond than Gil-Galad no matter how publically Elrond defers to him.

So, they compromised and made him Gil-Galad's Herald, which is an important position that tells everyone he has Gil-Galad's explicit trust but also means he spends more time playing diplomat and messenger than expressing his own political opinions. Also, it'd be funny if Elrond spends more time essentially pioneering healing techniques than anything else and Gil-Galad sending him out on Herald work is essentially him saying "you're not allowed back in the library until you've eaten at least three meals (diplomatic dinners) and talked to ten people, you're the healer why do I have to tell you this."

Also, something with the two of them going to great lengths to try and get people to forget that Gil-Galad isn't actually that much older than Elrond. And at least one political dinner where a bard is about to sing the Lay of Luthien and has to make awkward eye contact with Elrond, because that's his grandma. And the public consensus that Elrond is probably the most forgiving person on middle earth given he acknowledges his technical kidnappers as his technical foster fathers. And how that acknowledgement technically makes him and Celebrimbor cousins (as opposed to the more distant cousin relationship through his grandmother, Idril, daughter of Turgon, son of Fingolfin, brother to Feanor - aka the guy who made the first jewelry wars were started over, Celebrimbor's grampa).

[elffromforests]

Gil Galad : You are still baby to watch such adult scenes in film.

Elrond: But I am 1600+ years old. You were already king at this time!

GG: I. Said. You. Are .Still .very young.

Elrond: Cool...😑 just great

[inthehouseoffinwe]

Ok so I‘ve heard it’s mentioned that Tyelpë has dark hair but HEAR ME OUT-

Celebrimbor with silver hair from Miriel.

Gil Galad with silver hair from Eärwen.

Celebrian with silver hair from Celeborn.

Silver hair is seen as a rarity, so when the king and his cousins walk anywhere together, they make a *sight.*

But when he joins, it’s Elrond who turns the most heads, an unnatural beauty courtesy of his great grandmother (and the Finwëan genetics aren’t half bad either.) He’s somewhat of an introvert and Does Not Like This but Celebrian and co find it hilarious.

[braxix]

Galadriel and Celebrimbor: *Fighting*

Gil-Galad: Please! There are children present!

Elrond: I am not a child, Erenion!

Gil-Galad: I was talking about Celebrian.

Celebrian: I will kick you.

[big-ass-magnet]

KLAUS YOU NEED TO WORK ON YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS.

[sandwichmustbetasty]

i love this shot

elrond looking at the legacy of eregion, of celebrimbor and house of feanor burning

for elrond this is it. absolute, total defeat. brutal erasure of eregion history and culture, all of it going up in the flames.

[raointean]

Okay, I'm thinking of the descendants of Finwë in RoP and I need to share.

Of the 29 descendants of Finwë (that have been born at that point), there are only four left alive in Middle Earth. One of them, Celebrimbor, has purposefully sundered himself from all his kin, trying to put distance between him and the crimes of his family. Another, Galadriel, has become so hellbent on revenge that she can hardly spare a moment to spend with her family before rushing back to the hunt.

The two youngest, the little ones, Gil-Galad and Elrond, are physically together, but there is a strict boundary of authority that sunders them as well. Gil-Galad is king. He must maintain a sense of regality and aloofness to maintain his position, command his cousins, and leash his great-aunt. Elrond is the only son of many dispossessed houses and, in being part of everything, belongs nowhere. He is still young and awkward, having yet to come into his own.

As royals, they are not particularly close, whether that be due to necessity or if that was just the way things shook out. Galadriel seems to be on the best terms with most of them: she is a friend to Elrond and seems friendly with Celebrimbor, although her relationship with her nephew is a little... strained. Gil-Galad knows all of them well, but almost only as working relationships, detached and impersonal. Elrond has a dear friend in Galadriel, but it seems that he had never even MET Celebrimbor before season 1, and his relationship with Gil-Galad is strictly professional.

They are no better when pressure is applied. They take sides and block out all evidence that does not support their positions. Elrond flees. Galadriel bulldozes ahead. Celebrimbor isolates himself. And Gil-Galad- Gil-Galad is doing his best to be the rock his kingdom- and his family- needs.

And yet, despite their distance and dysfunction and individual flaws, they come together when one of their own is threatened.

[daisyachain]

I’ve made this post before but I can’t be bothered to find it. In what we commonly consider a ‘traditional’/patriarchal European society, the paths in life are: marriage with children (acceptable), bachelorhood (frowned upon, locked out of certain professions/roles), spinsterhood in servitude to parents (probably suffering), religious servitude. An unmarried person is a servant either of the local lord, the Lord, or the parents. The parental relationship has a built-in hierarchy of the senior parents and the underling child. All pressures push down and toward marriage as a form of (highly limited for women) freedom.

One of the few ways around this system is the sibling relationship. Sticking with a sibling can provide an avenue to independence from hierarchy via a peer relationship, a person who moves in with a married sibling is protected under the auspices of that marriage (though somewhat dependent on the sibling) and is not automatically subordinate as with aristocracy/religious orders/parents. I’m interested in the sibling relationship as a kind of lifeline or shield against the buffets of social expectation specially in a world where there is some kind of censure against unmarriage and in which marriage is seen as the final step in growing up. Siblings are the playmates of childhood, they are biological family, to remain part of s biological family unit is acceptable, to remain unmarried is not, the sibling is the last line of defense against a spouse without submitting to hierarchy and/or could be read as the last line of defense against growing up.

This isn’t coherent. I like the idea of two siblings choosing to remain close into adulthood not because they necessarily like each other that much, but because they understand the consequences of abandoning someone to social forces. Siblings as a kind of delayed maturation, a sign that something is wrong, a failed evolution, a vestigial relationship, you’re supposed to be close growing up and then split into different clans, but they have failed to do so and have closed the loop to return to childhood.

[fantasyquests]

Galadriel and Gil-galad, best moments (S1 and S2)

[purzelsims]

Someone decided to harvest forbidden fruits in style ... or something.

[joyride-time]

It’s not as obvious I’m making fun of baby Tarvek as I intended it to be in the last post because his life really is on a similar trajectory to where he thought he’d be. I mean, he’s Gil’s sidekick and he’s working for the Baron, but he’s very peaceful/flourishing/in his lane about it. He’s romantically entangled with the Heterodyne… he always intended to gain power through marriage… probably the second-biggest surprise to baby Tarvek would be the poly.

[beachyserasims]

Geneva Island Legacy┃Chapter six┃One Night

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[captainhuma]

Harry: point is, haters gonna hate. Shake it off, Uma's always right

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Mal: my head hurts

Uma: that's your brain trying to comprehend its own stupidity

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Carlos: writing stuff down is nerdy? What do you do?

Jay: Just forget stuff, like a cool person

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Evie: Everybody follow the birthday flag

Mal: What did you call me? Oh!

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Mal: Ben, eat this.

Ben : I can't. I'm leaving early to go to a tourney game. Auradon vs Blackhawks

Jay: Wow. They can call a team that?

Ben: Black..HAWKS.

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Mal: So, Uma, how are things with you and Harry?

Uma: Great. You know, same old Harry. Little dangerous, little mysterious, little dyslexic. He recently lost his flip-flops, so, you know, ups and downs..

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Jonah: Whoa! Easy on the shrimp! Those are supposed to be for everybody.

Gonzo: I only took a few.

Jonah: Yeah, took a few hundred. All right, put that back.

Gonzo: Okay.

Jonah: Yo, keep this guy away from the ocean! That's where all the shrimps at.

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Ben: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mmhmm

Uma: Can you stop active listening?

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Mal: What would you do if you were me?

Uma: Oh Mal, if I were you I would’ve k1lled myself years ago

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Harry: I once went on a date with a girl who cried when I told her I was a Taurus. (it was Audrey)

[violecov]

Feanor, king of fairies.

my first trsb drawing for @tolkienrsb!! )))

The Arthurian legends tell a lot of tales about a mystical land beyond the western seas, where the fairies live. It is also said that it was in Valin... Avalon, where the legendary sword "Excalibur" was created by a powerful fairy. So here I present you the glorious ruler of the lands of Avalon... let me check up his name. Yeah, Fëanor is a good name for him.

this drawing has been claimed by @maglor-my-beloved and has been made into a gorgeous story ( wich i have alredy read and enjoyed but i cannot link yet :(( )