#god i love celebrimbor so much it's not even funny anymore

[yeesandhaws]

celebrimbor hurts me so

i don't know why but this particular time i looked at my homescreen (which is celebrimbor because duh) i got struck with this sudden, intense, yet very tender bout of adoration for him as i remembered how gentle and kind he was (at least as far as i know from my trop watching) and that he literally was just a man (elf) who wanted to create something beautiful and lasting (and don't we all?) and he was so very sweet to all around him and he was a whole lord of a whole city and he cared so much about his people and their well-being AS WELL AS his craft and creations and he was so very trusting and yet somehow all of these beautiful qualities were manipulated so evilly led to his downfall and anyways i feel so deeply about tyelpe i can't even begin to elaborate i think i'll cry myself to sleep

[arofili]

legolas or celebrimbor??

celebrimbor doesn’t have a tumblr, he made that shit. he and narvi are @staff.

(well. they were @staff…)

leg …. pre fellowship

their blog url

green-leaves-in-a-green-forest

(or something equally long and horrendously hyphenated and fake poetic)

the kind of posts they reblog

random shit he finds amusing

like, cat pictures and social justice posts from 2013

no theme at all

i would never follow him

the first person they followed

tauriel

she convinced him to get a tumblr because of the memes

a year later, she regrets this immensely

she matured and has a better blog that she doesn’t even use much

legolas is the exact same.

what kind of theme they’d have

tumblr default theme

what kind of text posts they make at 2am

he will wake up in the middle of the night and post about the dreams he just had, but without any context

“made some chocolate milk with the lady who pulls the sun. tasted like weed. also, that one girl who i thought i had a crush on in 3rd grade was there. awkward.”

“sweating so much!! just ran a marathon with my dad while we were being chased by oliophaunts. the racetrack turned into a river halfway through. we won!!”

he thinks he’s funny

(he’s not.)

leg …… during fellowship

their blog url

he privated his blog for the first part of the journey because he thought it would be safer

after a few weeks he gets bored and starts liveblogging this shit

at that point his url becomes “fellowshipoftheleg”

his blog title is “Eight Idiots And A Gorgeous Elf Save The World”

“Hello! My name is Legolas Greenleaf. I am currently on a quest to save the world. The details are ~secret~ but I needed a place to vent so here we go. My companions are all idiots, except for me. My interests include….”

you know the type of subtitle i’m talking about.

the kind of posts they reblog

he basically stops reblogging and only makes original posts during this period of time

the liveblog

legolas had >300 followers before this, but his posts about his journey start to gain traction

his liveblog is pretty much petty complaints at first

he talks shit about gimli

he cracks “jokes” about boromir

(again. he’s not funny)

he reports on the weird stuff gandalf does

he gushes over the adorable hobbits

(until one day he accidentally bumps into frodo and sam tries to jump him.

he’s a little afraid of them after that.)

he quotes aragorn like there’s no tomorrow

some of these are like, actually deep

most of them sound like stuff from inspirobot

or they’re stupid inside jokes

everyone gets code names, cuz legolas isn’t that stupid

gandalf is “old man”

aragorn is “the bro”

boromir is “angstlord”

the hobbits go through tons of nicknames

“itty bitties”

“curly boys”

tiny monsters

eventually they get their own, but by that point the fellowship has split

gimli is “asshole dwarf”

after a few weeks… he becomes weirdly popular.

his story reads like a trollfic, with stupid plot twists and bizarre anecdotes

this mostly is anecdotes, not the full scope of the quest

he mostly makes text posts, with a few pictures here and there

every now and then he’ll post a snapshot of the fellowship roasting marshmallows

or a selfie of him in lothlorien

or a sneaky pic of him drawing dicks on boromir’s face while he’s asleep

he used to be low-profile, but shit’s gone whack.

he’s gaining hundreds of followers a day

his top post has half a million notes.

he’s a tumblr “cewebrity”

everyone on tumblr thinks this is just a story, not real life

people dig through his old posts looking for clues and foreshadowing

they’re baffled by the dedication the mod of the blog has to building up this “legolas” character

or they’re puzzled by the mod’s decision to turn this shit blog into a dedicated storytelling platform

legolas is bombarded with asks and @ mentions

but like…this bitch don’t actually know how to use this website.

he can make a post and reblog one

but that’s literally it

he’s the kind of blogger who leaves stupid captions on popular posts

he can’t figure out how tags work

he’s never heard of xkit

all his asks go unanswered

he’s only sort of aware of what’s going on

he’s blogging 100% from mobile, which makes it even worse

the Legolas Fandom goes buckwild

there is not enough time in the day to over it all

ship wars.

fan theories.

headcanon drama.

it’s a mess.

and again, legolas has no clue that this is going on.

when he catches feelings for gimli…things get insane.

he writes gushy, cringy, angsty posts about gimli

he posts pics of gimli with flower crowns

he composes bad poetry about gimli

the fan base is infuriated.

they’d all been shipping him with aragorn.

and like, no one in the fellowship has a fucking clue this is happening.

at least, not until they get to 

it’s ironic that Isolated Horseblr User eowyn is the first one to recognize legolas

she finally gets up the courage to ask him about it

“has someone been stealing your selfies, or…?”

he is astonished.

if Leg could, he’d shut down the whole thing

even if eowyn had wanted to help him do that, he’s just in too deep

he’s in this for the long haul.

now, Legolas starts to make shit up.

that’s when his popularity tanks.

he’s getting callouts

he’s everyone’s “problematic fav”

people dig through his blog to find dirt instead of clues

Legolas is more aware of this now, and he pouts for days

then gimli, a Twitter-Only lad, finally sees a masterpost explaining everything

he connects the dots way quicker than anyone else did

and oh fuck.

he’s frantically tweeting–

“wtf do i do??”

“i think i’m the asshole dwarf??”

“but he’s like in love with the asshole dwarf now??”

“oh my god, my crush likes me back??”

“has he been liveblogging EVERYTHING??”

eventually he deletes it all and decides to confront legolas

the leg boy caves under pressure and spills the beans.

they figure their personal shit out

of course, aragorn knew everything all along.

at least, that’s what he says

gimli takes over the liveblog for a day and everyone goes nuts.

together, he and leg decide that they’ve got to end this fake-ish story

even though they don’t know the ending of the real one.

for someone who’s never used it before, gimli picks up tumblr etiquette quickly

and on mobile. that’s a whole nother level of perseverance.

he starts streamlining shit, collecting information, making use of fan masterposts

he ties all the loose ends together

with a little bit of help from legolas to make it suitably weird, they close the story strong with a bang and a kiss.

aragorn finds their version of events…amusing.

after the real dust settles and the news stories about the Real Quest hit the press…

now legolas is a Real Actual Celebrity

his fans new and old start to see…similarities between the two stories

plagiarism?

insider info?

conspiracy?

coincidence?

no one can decide.

leg ………… post fellowship

their blog url

Legolas has three blogs now.

“fellowshipoftheleg” is kept as an archive. he doesn’t post there anymore.

he has a secret personal blog, “greenwood-gossip”, that he just posts random shit on like before.

and finally he has a Real Life Famous Person Tumblr Blog, “legolasgreenleaf”

the kind of posts they reblog

with the help of gimli and tauriel, he figures out how to actually use this website.

like most celeb blogs this one doesn’t post much

but he does reblog edits of himself and of his friends

every time he’s asked about fellowshipoftheleg he answers that he is not responsible for it and has no idea about it and would you all please stop asking about it.

the first person they followed

aragorn’s new Famous Person account.

this blog is deactivated after two months because he never uses it.

what kind of theme they’d have

something that should be really classy but with awkward shades of green

like, it had potential but again…legolas has a terrible eye for design

what kind of text posts they make at 2am

he doesn’t usually make original posts

but sometimes he’ll complain about gimli’s weird habits

and once - just once - he confessed that he was the one who ran that liveblog all those years ago

he deleted the post an hour later, but there were screenshots.

legolas is the Ultimate Troll.

[forerussake]

RULES: choose any three fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions. Then tag some friends tagged by @legolasgoldy thanks :D I choose: Tolkien, MCU, Lucifer The first character you loved: Tolkien: Legolas. I was first introduced to the fandom when I was nine. You see, my friend’s father was a Tolkien-fan and he had been showing her the movies over the span of a couple days. She asked me to watch the ending with her. I had no idea what I signed up for at the time, but boy, am I glad I did. I fell into it about halfway through RotK and the first thing I saw was Shelob. I was so confused, I had no idea what was going on. But then Legolas showed up and it was love at first sight. MCU: Cap. His first movie was the first MCU movie I saw. I wasn’t familliar with the comics (I’ve been doing some catching up), so The First Avenger was my introduction to Marvel in general. And how could I not love Steve? Lucifer: Lucifer. I rarely if ever like the main character best, but this show did it. They made me fall in love with the main character, well done. The character you never expected to love so much: Tolkien: Maeglin. I don’t know why, I barely remembered the fall of Gondolin the first time I read the Silmarillion. I think he is a really tragic character who made some reaaaaaaly bad mistakes (as in reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaly bad), but I just can’t stop loving him and wanting to protect him… MCU: Loki. I’ve always loved Loki. When he showed up in Thor with his sad face and daddy-issues I simply couldn’t not love him. But my love for him grows deeper every time he appears on screen. I can’t wait for Ragnarok to come out, so I can feel my heart burst from love for Loki. How is it even possible to love a fictional character so much. Lucifer: Mazikeen. She's super badass and sarcastic and I love her. The character you relate to most: Tolkien: Finarfin I guess? Having to be the reasonable one and never getting any credit. Being ignored because your not as adventurous (read: stupid) as others. That's pretty much me in a nutshell. Though I guess I relate to Finrod really well too, his endless loyalty and his determination to do the right thing resonate really well with me too. MCU: That's a hard one. Cap too, maybe. Feeling like I'm much older than most people my age. Lucifer: Chloe. A tough female character who's determined and intelligent and who doesn't have her character defined solely by her intimate relationship with the male lead character? Sign me up. The character you’d slap: Tolkien: Can I say all the sons of Fëanor? But no, really. If I could walk up to anybody in Tolkien's legendarium and give them a piece of my mind it would probably be Manwë, as the representative of all the Valar. I mean, letting Melkor out? Really?! Okay, so not a smart move, but not yet all that big of a deal. Letting Finwë remarry? Sure, what can go wrong. Letting Melkor corrupt the Noldor, now here's where things start to get ugly. Allowing Finwë to accompany his son into exile, holding a party while failing to protect the Two Trees from Melkor, who btw wasn't attending said party and no-one noticed or cared, letting Finwë be killed, not doing anything to stop Fëanor from swearing the Oath, allowing the Noldor to brutally murder innocent people at Alqualondë and then exiling them, just to get them of your hands?! Are you kidding me? You're supposed to be the gods of Middle-Earth, and that is the only sollution to the problem that you can think of, letting the people of Beleriand deal with it? Not a great plan. (I still love you, but come on, really?) MCU: Thanos, though I'd probably die if i tried. Lucifer: Luce's mom. I can't stand her. Three favorite characters: Tolkien: Just three? Uuuuhm, Eönwë, Finrod, Celebrimbor? Idk, the list is too long... MCU: Loki, Vision, Dr Strange? Lucifer: Lucifer, Mazikeen, Ella A character you loved at first but not so much anymore: Tolkien: I used to really love Glorfindel, but he has kind of faded into the background, still love him, but not as much as I love Finrod for example. MCU: Cap? He was my first love in the fandom, and I still like him, I like everything about him, but don't love him, not anymore. Lucifer: I loved Amenadiel for a while, still like him, but not as much. A character you did not like at first, but they’ve grown on you: Tolkien: Ecthelion? Didn't really care for him at first, I had Glorfindel, but now I love Ecthelion much more than him... MCU: Nick Fury. Sometimes I wanna punch him in the face, but he's an awesome character. Lucifer: Dan. Thought he was a jerk, turns out to be really nice and funny and I like him. Thanks again for tagging me :) I'm tagging: @radicalcupcakemassacre