#faniel

[cyclonestudios-alt]

The last three I only found out about a few days ago sooooo...

Reblogs would be greatly appreciated!!

[theworldsoftolkein]

Faniel was a Ñoldorin Elf that was the third daughter of Finwë and Indis in an apparently discarded concept of the legendarium.[1] She had two brothers, Fingolfin and Finarfin, two sisters, Findis and Finvain and a half-brother, Fëanor.[2]

[disabled-tolkien]

☆ Month of Fic Recs ☆

For each day of September (which is disability pride month in Aotearoa) I'm sharing a Tolkien fanfiction with disabled characters.

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Day 29/30: Finwëohíni (Children of Finwë) by @mxmia

Fandom: Silmarillion

Rating: G-T

Disabled character: original character (Deaf), Faniel (chronic pain, wheelchair user)

Warnings: ableism, child neglect, canon-typical violence

Summary: A series of fics exploring the relationships between the members of the House of Finwë, and the following generations. Featuring discarded characters & OCs to fill in the gaps.

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[thelordofgifs]

Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 1

Pearl Took vs. Faniel

Pearl Took:

The eldest sister of Pippin Took.

Ok but can you IMAGINE being Pippin Took's eldest sister. This girl DEFINITELY has eldest daughter syndrome. She dealt with it by casually murdering an elderly relative :)

Faniel:

The dubiously canonical third daughter of Finwë from an early draft of the legendarium.

Finwe's daughters supremecy

Round 1 masterpost

[yourfavhasomphalocele]

Fan Inanimate Insanity

Fan from Inanimate Insanity has Omphalocele!

[4threset]

‘ oooh baby we’re gonna burrrnnn’

[papercutmoodboards]

fan (inanimate insanity) moodboard for @somebodys-account

[monichou]

࿙࿚ ︶ ᧔ ✧ ᧓ ㅤ☕ㅤcome kiss me

࿙࿚ ︶ ᧔ ✧ ᧓ ㅤ☕ㅤand bite me

[kinseverycharacter]

hello tumblr, its been a while! have a fan doodle

and a big hello to all my mutuals! i hope you're doing well ^_^ interaction with you all has been low because ive been growing out of posting, but i may have some art here and there (as you can see X3)

thanks for stopping by :]

[gwaedhannen]

🦆 I am very interested in anything from your Helcaraxë or Elwing wips especially!

-@outofangband

🦆 asker's request (what do you want to see? from a specific wip, a specific mood, a specific ship or character...?)

From the "Fëanor takes the Helcaraxë" AU:

But Fëanáro is not blind. His half-brother follows his eldest son, and Findecáno will follow Maitimo.

And he knows the loyalty of the rest of his half-family. Lalwendë and will follow her full-brother, Turukáno and Angaráto and Aikanáro will follow Findecáno, Findaráto and Ar-Faniel will follow Turukáno, Arafinwë will follow Findaráto, Arakáno will follow his father, Artaresto will follow his grandfather, Itarillë and Telperinquar are yet carried by their fathers, Artanis will follow him and pretend she makes her own path.

So really, he just needs to make sure Findecáno is happy.

His own sons will follow him to the ends of Eä. They have no choice now. It is so sworn.

And for Elwing, from So small a thing:

But he sees: The little lift of the right side of her lip when she thinks of his father, the twitch just under her left eye when she’s holding back tears. Not that she’s been doing much holding back, not now. Not as she once did around him and Elros, hoping futilely that they, for at least a little longer, could be spared the knowledge of her grief. But the pile of handkerchiefs on the table is starting to get a little silly.

[vurlient]

Sk8 in the streets ’06

[samthecookielord]

his real name is faniel daniel

[who-needs-words]

Final number: 207

Bonus internet points will be awarded to anyone who actually tries this exercise before voting.

Assume you need to get the spelling at least somewhat close, and if a character has multiple names, only one counts. Also, if a character doesn't have a canonical name, I'm sorry, but "that guy's wife" doesn't count.

For reference, if you can name the 9 members of the Fellowship, the eponymous Hobbit and his 13 dwarf buddies, 3 prominent women, and the guy who runs the Rivendell B&B, that's 27 characters right there. And you probably also know the name of a dragon.

For further reference, Tolkien Gateway has 637 (!!) pages dedicated to Third Age characters. (Don't click that link until you've voted, of course)

Edit: Your humble pollmaker gave this a try, and got as far as 73 before deciding she was too tired to keep trying to remember dwarf and Silm names. If you also want to share (and don't mind people being incredulous at your having forgot ____), pastebin allows you to paste text and share it for free. :)

[pankiepoo]

faniel

[ceescedasticity]

Of the Dispute of Findis and Indis

Second chapter of Of the Daughters of Finwë — probably read the first chapter first

Of the dispute of Findis and Indis

by Amarië Vórimawiel (written mid-First Age, but unpublished)

Findis Finwiel, Princess of the Noldor, left Valmar for Tirion after word came that every other descendant of Finwë — half-brother, brothers, sister, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews, and her own son — had joined the Flight of the Noldor. She was able to restore some order and morale to the city and the people; though some resented that she had stayed away so long, most were glad that she was there now. She remained even after Arafinwë returned and was called King by the Valar. Some expected there to be strife between Findis and Arafinwë, but any such quarrels were very well-hidden even from their closest attendants: While they did not agree on everything, neither ever gave any indication they were anything but grateful not to be alone in their task.

The sensational feud to capture Tirion's attention was instead between Princess Findis and Indis the Dowager Queen.

While few outside the palace realized it, the first seeds of the conflict were there from the beginning: Indis did not return to Tirion when Findis did, nor when Arafinwë did, nor for decades after.

Queen Indis has said: She was aware that some Noldor thought both Findis and Arafinwë too Vanyarin already, and did not wish to further inflame these feelings with her presence.

Princess Findis has said: Indis valued her children who remained less than her children who were gone.

King Arafinwë has declined to say anything at all on the matter.

But this tension remained quiet, and even inside the palace few were aware of it.

Some eighty years after the rising of the Sun, Princess Findis chose to have another child — to restore hope for the future for the Noldor, she said, with all Finwë's grandchildren gone. Queen Indis felt Findis was thereby renouncing and giving up on all their departed kin, and treating the grandchildren as replaceable, interchangeable pawns.

She came to Tirion to say so.

This argument could hardly be missed by any with any business in the palace any of the months Indis was in residence. King Arafinwë still declined to take a side. Some called this weakness but most called it wisdom.

When Findis's daughter was born, the child's father Lord Lávarwë named her Calainë; some remarked that serenity was a lot to ask of a child of the House of Finwë, but few blamed him for hoping.

The very next day Findis named her Sanastëa. For a Noldor princess to be mindful and aware is a more realistic expectation, and in the days of the Trees it would likely not have been thought twice on. But there in Tirion after the Flight of the Noldor, it could be taken as a statement that all the child's absent cousins were not mindful and aware, and this child would be better.

If it was meant to state this Findis never openly admitted it, saying only that they were needful traits of a Noldor princess.

Indis very certainly took it as such a statement.

After another unmissable argument with Findis, Indis left Tirion again, though not to return to Valmar. She told Arafinwë that she would return in five or ten years: little Calainë would be ill-served should her be her infancy consumed by her mother arguing viciously with her grandmother every day. Arafinwë said he looked forward to her return but that proximity to such arguments would not serve Calainë's childhood any better.

Indis was gone for fifteen years. When she came back to Tirion, she brought a babe five years of age; she said this was her adopted daughter Faniel, who was of the Noldor and who should be among her people.

There was then a private meeting between Indis, Findis, and Arafinwë, held in a certain study of the King in which one may not easily be overheard. Arafinwë emerged after an hour to write and dispatch a letter to Lady Anairë, asking if she would be willing to return to court, then returned to the study.

Three hours after that, Arafinwë emerged once more. He called the royal household together and announced that Elmendien Faniel, adopted daughter of Indis the dowager queen, was to be considered a child of the House of Finwë. That, and only that, was to be announced to the people. He also instructed the household not to repeat or circulate any details of Lady Faniel's background they were told by either Indis or Findis.

This was mainly successful as far as the Noldor at large were concerned, but within the walls of the Palace, one might hear two incompatible and preposterous rumors.

One rumor was that Faniel was the daughter of Indis and Finwë, begotten immediately before Fëanáro was banished from Tirion. Finwë callously abandoned his wife and she was forced to withdraw to the care of her family. This abhorrent neglect from one parent was why Faniel looked to be barely more than an infant when she had been born long ago. The situation and Faniel's delicate health was also why Indis had been absent for so long.

The other rumor was that Faniel was the daughter of Finwë and Míriel Serindë, begotten in the very Halls of Mandos and born after Míriel's reembodiment. Indis joined Míriel to act as Faniel's second parent for the first years of her life, but Vairë's looms are no place for a child, so Míriel sent Faniel with Indis to be among her people.

All agreed both of these rumors were ridiculous and could not possibly be true. The events described were unnatural and impossible.

Moreover, with regard to the first rumor, Indis had been withdrawn in Valmar but not so withdrawn that people would not have observed her fighting to keep a child alive.

Moreover, with regard to the second rumor, many of the faithful Noldor did not wish to believe that Finwë had responded to everything that happened by having an impossible child with Fëanáro's mother and taking little responsibility for it.

However, no one put forth any compelling explanations for where else Faniel might have come from, that had the House of Finwë so very reluctant to speak of it.

Findis and Indis ceased to quarrel in public, but it was known there was still a great divide between them.

[thelordofgifs]

Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 1 Bracket!

here we gooo! Hopefully the image quality isn't too awful - I can read it alright if I zoom in, at any rate. For round 1 there will be 4 polls a day for 16 days, posted at 4pm UTC starting tomorrow, 18th May. Poll durations will all be one day. I'll post links to all the round 1 polls on this masterpost as they go live below the cut; each day there'll be 1 poll from each "corner" of the bracket.

Feel free to drop any propaganda in my ask box, either before or during the polls! I hope everyone has fun campaigning for their little-known blorbos :)

Frequently Asked Questions

POLLS

18/05:

Bofur vs Tauriel

Barliman Butterbur vs Ancalagon

Berúthiel vs. Mithrellas

The chief dancing bear of Númenor vs. Erutáro

19/05:

Dís vs Beorn

Gamling vs Bill the pony

Pearl Took vs Faniel

Ulbandi vs Miaulë

20/05:

Nerdanel vs Círdan

Nessa vs Caranthir’s wife

Urwen vs Elmo

Random orc of Morgoth vs Narthseg

21/05:

Elros vs Oropher

Erendis vs Tilion

Eärnur vs Mahtan's wife

Bëor's wife vs Múta

22/05:

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins vs Finarfin

Tevildo vs Amlach

Gelmir Guilinion vs Legolas of Gondolin

One (1) Rivendell elf who sings tra-la-la-lally vs Bingo Baggins

23/05:

Amrod vs Idril

Ilmarë vs Tar-Ancalimë

Andróg vs Fíriel of Gondor

Hiril (daughter of Barahir) vs Youngest of Finrod’s Ten

24/05:

Ecthelion vs Huan

Ingwë vs Salgant

Silmariën vs Tata

Viznak vs Ælfwine

25/05:

Olwë vs Edrahil

Eorl vs Meássë

Larnach’s daughter vs Jajax

26/05:

Lightning Disqualification (1)

Pengolodh vs Ioreth

Lothrandir vs Nob

Golfimbul vs Ainairos

27/05:

Lightning Disqualification (2)

Arien vs Egalmoth

Golodir vs Vidumavi

Ornendil vs Meril

28/05:

Haleth vs Beleg

Tom Bombadil vs Beregond

Inzilbêth vs A fox passing through the woods on business of his own

Makar vs Andvír

29/05:

Mablung vs Tuor

Nellas vs Curufin’s wife

Imin vs Tinfang Warble

Beleth vs Findegil

30/05:

Nimloth vs Anairë

Elurín vs Rog

Corunir vs Elulindo

Nuin vs Faramir (son of Ondoher)

31/05:

Rían vs Míriel

Argon vs Eluréd

Hareth vs Belen

Narmeleth vs Horn

01/06:

Daeron vs Andreth

Finduilas of Dol Amroth vs Findis

Eldacar of Gondor vs Gwindeth

Gelmir (messenger of Círdan) vs Bór

02/06:

Tar-Míriel vs Eöl

Thuringwethil vs Mahtan

Ilwen vs Eilinel

Enel vs Hirgon

03/06:

Belladonna Took vs Bain

Finduilas Faelivrin vs Halbarad

Azaghâl vs Lalwen