#hc; mablung

[thegreatstrongbow]

[ cum ] ― what does it take to make them come? can they come multiple times in one sitting or do they need longer breaks? //for Mabs

He has that sweet elf stamina, but it still only takes a little dedicated attention to make him come, unless he is specifically focused on holding back. He could probably go once or twice without a break, maybe three times if he's feeling energised.

[lycheesodas]

incoming sudden headcanon/thought :)

Beleg and Mablung have seen each other at their best, and at their worst. During the lowest moments in their lives, when tears mixed with mud, blood, and hoarse screams; emotions drove them to the edge of madness; where they showed their deepest vulnerabilities, the ugliest parts. The sun might not always shine at the end, but they embrace and forgive each other's flaws. At the end they are there for each other.

OHHHH YES THIS ABSOLUTELY.. just imagining them clinging to each other like a lifeline.... oh this hurts in the best way thank you for sending this in ; ~ ;

[ladysternchen]

You know, I'm quite glad that we're getting the fanon vs canon concerning Elu Thingol and the Sindar in general into focus a bit. When I first came to Tumblr, it felt to me as though I were just about the only one who cared about him (which of course was never the case, but I at least had no-one to talk to about my elf).

But there's a stale note to it- that it seems there must be more fighting, and hardened fronts, more never-ending discussions that always burn down to one thing- do we accept canon or not.

And really, I don't want to go down that road anymore. I really don't want to spend so much time quoting and explaining and re-reading to make sure I get my argumentation right only to have the other side say stuff like 'yeah, true, but I still get a different vibe so I'm gonna ignore canon and keep hating'

And while I really want to emphasise that there is nothing (!) whatsoever wrong with feeling a story, feeling characters and liking or disliking them (yes, happens to me, too. Canonically, Aredhel has done absolutely nothing wrong, and yet I really dislike her), basing actual character-bashing on these 'vibes' is a problem. Excluding people who defend their favourite characters with CANON from discussions. Making up yet more hateful fanon. Accusing people of certain political beliefs because they like the Sindar (and yeah, I did delete a lot of what I've written here. It just... this makes me so so is angry, but starting to insult people is not what I want for this post, so I deleted, and sat on my fingers until I was able to pick up civil tones again).

But I can't change it. I can't change what other people think, and who knows, maybe I'm no more right than they are. Maybe there is no right. Maybe we could accept that this fandom is vast enough for ALL OF US?

So dear fellow Sindar-stans, let's stop arguing and fill Tumblr instead with the content you want to see. Share your headcanons, write your fanfictions, draw and share your fan art.

Let's discuss it all, dive deep. Comment on the works you like, ask for things to be written. Yeah, I have an obsession with character death, I find grief and mourning an incredibly beautiful thing to write and read about, and as I kill off my favourite characters in general, Elu Thingol's death is my prime motive. (who would have guessed, ey? 🤣) And I'd love to read it from time to time, rather than always write it myself. But that is my very specific hyper fixation and understandably not everyone's cup of tea. But give me all those tender moments of love and friendship and loyalty. Give me the conversations between Elwë, Olwë and Elmo on the journey, give me Daeron's backstory, give me Mablung and Beleg standing unwavering behind their king. Give me drunk Elu and Melian and HER found family. Give me an insight into Nimloth's head. Give me loving reaper-like comics with Elurín and Eluréd and Námo Mandos. And hell, yes, all you talented artists out there, give me some spicy Elu and Melian, please? Give me an insight into all those tender moments. Give me the moment of their reunion, and please please please will anyone draw the moment that Elwë stumbled into Olwë's arms on legs that would not yet carry him (lol, ok, that's too specific. But I have that weird hc that Elves that are released from Mandos need some time to get accustomed to their body again, like a butterfly needs to dry after it emerges from its cocoon).

Ok, now I waffled enough, but will we try that, please? Spread some love instead of discord? That belongs to Bauglir after all.

[maironsbigboobs]

Turin and Nienor for the character ask game

Give me a character and I will give you my thoughts on

one aspect about them i love: Túrin, what I love most about him is his heart - he has a very clear and strong sense of what he thinks is right and wrong and despite everything that happens to him he tries to do what he thinks is right. For Nienor, I love her courage, her strength of will - she snuck out of Doriath, she faced off a dragon, she forgot everything about herself and had to build her identity anew, and still had so much courage.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them: I think people sometimes mischaracterise Túrin as an idiot, but I don't think that's fair. He's actually clever and from some of his lines quite witty. Nienor I actually can't recall any common bad takes on her - I would like to see more takes on her in general though we need a Nienor renaissance.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character: I think Niënor learnt to bake properly in Brethil. She always wanted to but in Dor-Lomin supplies were limited and in Doriath she was focused on finding out where was. I think Túrin wanted to name his first daughter after Lalaith.

as well as

one character i love seeing them interact with: Túrin & Thingol make my heart melt. I love Niënor &/ Mablung too.

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: Túrin and Mim I think they have such a fascinating dynamic. I would love to see more about Niënor and Morwen's relationship.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: I hc Niënor was watched over in Doriath by Nellas just as Túrin was. Also I think Túrin should have been tutored by Celeborn at some point.

[polutrope]

Beleg, for the character asks, please?

Thank you!!

one aspect about them i love

He's so GOOD. He follows his heart but with wisdom. He says "love would lead me and not wisdom" or whatever it is, but I think he actually balances both well.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

Hm he's not a blorbo of mine, but I'm not sure how much his military prowess and strength gets emphasised? Maybe it does, but it's something *I* don't often think about.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

So one thing I don't subscribe to is Beleg "who wist no sire" as in The Lay of the Children of Húrin, i.e. him being a first gen Cuivienen elf. I don't really hc any canon characters as unbegotten (besides the six who explicitly are). I like if even the Elves of the "Elder Days" have a mythical, even more remote past that stretches way further back than anyone but a handful of Avari and even fewer Eldar can remember. I do think Beleg is pretty old though, and born at Cuivienen.

one character i love seeing them interact with

Besides Túrin, I love some Sindar warrior bonding with Mablung (platonic or not).

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

There's that business where he and his marchwardens (Sindar with axes!) fight with the Haladin in the aftermath of the Bragollach; it'd be cool to see some of his interactions with humans before Túrin.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

I think him and Thingol go way back, like pre-Elwe-being-appointed/elected-emissary-to-Valinor. Beleg respects his authority and will ask him for permission to do things (well... most things, sometimes it probably just isn't convenient), but they both know he's going to do what he wants/needs to do regardless.

[serregon]

Mablung for the character ask game?

Give me a character and I will give you my thoughts on

one aspect about them i love

my underrated beloved! it’s gotta be his devotion to saving Túrin and Nienor. dude’s a real hero and he puts his duty first. and the tragedy of it all! his devotion wasn’t enough to save them ;_;

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

I mean, people just don’t really pay attention to him much in general. fanart and fic about him is pretty rare, he’s overlooked. y’all don’t see the potential he has as much angst as the fan favorite finweans

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

okay not really a headcanon, but more of an observation. the name Mablung is an epessë meaning “heavy hand”, referencing how he held the silmaril after it was cut out of the wolf. so Mablung isn’t his real name. kinda want to come up with a real name for him myself but I’m bad at naming characters lol

one character i love seeing them interact with

I love him with Nienor. we don’t get a whole lot of lines about them, but what we do have kills me every time. Mabs spent three years searching for her, and he arrived just one day too late ;_; I’d love to explore their relationship more, maybe about how they developed their friendship in Doriath

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

I want to know more about his relationship with Túrin. they must have been close, but Tolkien didn’t really give us much. Mablung was the last person Túrin saw before he ran away from Doriath, the last person Túrin saw before he died, and the first person to find Turin’s body. so it’s like, Túrin’s curse kind of both begins and ends with Mablung

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

I hc that him and Beleg used to take care of Lúthien when she was a kid, and Mablung taught her how to use a sword (cone on fanartists give us warrior Lúthien!!!)

[from-lothlorien-to-helms-deep]

🍁🐅🦄

🍁 - Physical locations, flora & fauna.

Uhhhhhh horses in Doriath. They gotta have their own horses, breed their own horses, so that the horses are used to living&moving in a forest. But the elves still got them patches of land with no trees (where they keep other livestocks too). Horses are used so people can move quickly, not used very often in fighting (because stealth often works better, and although they are elven horses imo are noisier than elves), and maybe used as a labor source. (is this hc even unusual at all)

🐅 - Characterization: character habits, personality, etc.

Uhhhhh does Beleg not being among those who first awoke count (I don't think so) (anyway to be brief I hc him as born somewhere during the migration to Beleriand)

Uhhhh does Turleg count as popular fanon (if so I would like to say I personally do not see them as a romantic pair at all.)

I have some headcanons regarding Mablung and Beleg and Doriath marchwardens (I think this one isn't talked about often?) (to make this not completely about world building I'm including my two blorbos XD) Mablung is part of the earliest form of it and he was not in a leadership position until some time later. Overall it's been quite a large part of Mablung's life. Same with Beleg, except maybe he has a more balanced personal and work (being a marchwarden&chief of marchwarden) life XD

🦄 - Characters' physical appearance.

Thingol is the tallest person (elves and men) in Arda.

Ok this uhhhh I headcanon Beleg as having something like beige or light brown colored hair, not silver (nor black sorry Tolkien if you wanted him to have black hair)

Reminder: Turin is very handsome and has always been throughout CoH (and the Silm Turin chapter), doesn't matter what crap he is going through or has gone through :))

[sakasakiii]

just stopping by to say that I really like your art! your style is cute and I love how you draw the Finwean family and the Valar. do you have designs for any other Silmarillion characters, like the Doriathrim, men, or dwarves?

hihi!! thank you SO much for your kind message ahh! 😭 im tickled pink to hear that you like my art and renditions of the cast of Keeping Up with the Karfinweans 😂🥰 i love that disaster family too much so admittedly i overlook 99% of the other characters in middle earth LMAOOO so thank you for asking about other designs!!

this gonna be a massive sketch dump of some of my initial ideas so... brace yourself !! here's my takes on the Doriathrim and my favourite men characters 🤗 (may be subject to change in the future)

if you notice, it ended up being mostly elves again... i have a problem and that problem is a total inability to draw facial hair?! (as evidenced in my excuse reason to have a clean shaven turin lolol)

last min edit: WAIT I DIDNT DRAW ANDRETH ueueue i knew i was missing someone *insert arthur clenched fist jpeg here*

but i didnt wanna leave without honouring the request so here is my shoddy attempt at drawing a beard thru azaghal my mans (plus elrond's family cuz i wanted to draw them for the longest time >:D)

soz this ended up being a bit longer than usual, but thank you again for the lovely ask! 🥰 i had so much fun doing it!!

[cuthalion]

Ngl your icon could and should be MABLUNG 😍

oooooo i like 👌🏻👌🏻

[bouncingbeleg]

Because I am super curious: what's is your headcanon about Beleg and Belthronding? Where'd it come from? Is it /really/ enchanted?

So you know my hc about Mablung having sung Beleg to life from the bark of a tree? It never comes up but I am obsessed with it. I've thought maybe what if Belthronding was from the same tree as him so it's like a part of him a part of him. Not enchanted in the way of a spell put on it or woven into it, but like. It's as magic as an elf? It's strength is the same. It's imperviousness.

I think maybe he was drawn back to the tree when he was looking for something suitable to bend into a bow.

[sweetearthandnorthernsky]

speaking of gondor adjacent hcs, one of my favorites is that faroth is faramir’s dog (or one of them) which leads to the pc inadvertantly stealing him (aided + abetted by mablung)

[thegreatstrongbow]

🍁 [ leaf ] — an outfit that your muse would wear during autumn / fall - Beleg & Mablung!

Doriath in my HC has quite gradual autumns, that fade from summer and winter slowly. At the start of autumn, summer clothes with an extra layer would work just fine.

Once it starts to get colder properly, though, outfits change. Out on the Marches, Beleg wears longer wool tunics, with long sleeves, and if he is not wearing armour (padded leather) he will wear an additional vest or overshirt over the top on colder days. He sticks to his usual colours, though, greys and browns and greens. (Except, of course, his white cloak and red boots. Slay.)

Mablung wears similar outfits on the Marches, but in Menegroth itself he is more fashionable, preferring long, lined overcoats over plain undershirts and trousers. He usually only needs two layers within the city. He tends to favour smarter, tighter cuts. His choice in colours varies with the trends in Doriath (although 1 elf fashion season is like, 50 years or something), but he has a preference for warm, deep colours. He usually wears boots, but has a softer, warmer, comfier pair for in the city

[ladysternchen]

💛 a favorite familial relationship and 🩷 a ship that you like, even though it could never work in canon

💛 Elmo and Elwë… I know I have long since overstressed that point in my fics (and will continue to do so as long as I write), but I just love them so much (and the realationship I span in my hc out of ‘Elmo remained with Elwë, by whom he was beloved’)

🩷 I really had to think long about that one, and truth be told, I’m still none the wiser.

I might put the Mablung/Elu Thingol of my current WIP in here, or the familial relationship between Eärwen and Lúthien that canonical could never be, but no, I go for Lúthien/Fëanor. 😂 why it could never work is obvious, but that’s just too explosive to even think about (so naturally, I do). That could either end in Arda imploding or actually work as well as their dads’ friendship worked.

Thanks so much for asking 😊

[adwendoodles]

Finally finished the Doriath crowd (some of them, at least). So the Doriath royal family + Daeron, Beleg, and Mablung!

this is gonna be long... why did i decide to make so many characters. the count is up to 72 now. 72. And I might add others like Oropher and Thranduil and Voronwë if, you know, i I feel like torturing myself

anyway

- i was honestly not going to include daeron, beleg, or mablung and then i realized that 80% of the reason im making this is so my friend, who is constantly lost about the silmarillion (yet valiantly tries to read the fanfics i rec) has a reference and even though these are mostly minor characters i was like... oh well time to draw them. i still quite enjoy the detail that the sindar look a lot like the noldor and most of them have black/brown hair so i gave him that + the typical doriath skin color bc im an idiot and forgot to add more genetic diversity to doriath aljdlkfdslkfds

- why does everyone draw beleg with silver hair????? i realize it might be 90% not caring that silver hair is usually a trait of thingol’s kin or i mean, he might also have silver hair on his own, but if that got described in the silm i completely didnt process it and so now im just so curious. is it canon?? is it fanon??? is it fanon so fanon it might be canon??? pls enlighten me

anyway regardless of the reason im really into silver haired beleg lmao. i went ahead and did it. he’s actually reffed from a real person for once! isn’t this guy just so hot??? i dont think i meant him to be beleg when i pinned the image but when i was trying to figure out how to draw beleg i saw it and i was just like!!!  so i follow my thirsty brain instincts

*disney voice* now all of china knows you can’t ref

- mablung i have like zero mental image for but i finally realized i could like... use more than one skin color for doriath.... ..... ...... so i went ahead and did it. kinda inspired by a google search of his name tbh??? in related news if anyone is up for hearing me gush about dakkun39′s silm art at them for 30 minutes hit me up bc these were some of the first silm fanarts i ever saw and they STAYED WITH ME i LOVE the piece with galariel at the first kinslaying like THAT SHAPED HOW I SAW THAT ENTIRE SCENE and the first time i saw it i had no idea who any of these people were i LOVE IT 100% that’s my entire galadriel look headcanon. im also quite fond of their haleth and all of their maedhros pieces are amazing as well

*cough* moving on

- i’ve done thingol melian and luthien so moving onto beren... uhhh idk about beren im always torn between ‘scruffy forest man hasn’t bathed in a decade’ and ‘handsome rugged dude’ and i landed far away from both but im okay with this?? the real question is why he’s blond. normally i picture him with dark hair?? i think i should blame the internet for telling me his hair in canon is blond cuz i... do... try and respect canon... usually.....

- i really love this one hc that dior the fair looks like beren hahaha. he looks enough like luthien that ppl can praise the resemblance, but truthfully he much more closely resembles Young Handsome Lordling Beren. i feel like i messed up his eyes but i’ll... fix that in post production

- nimloth!!! another person i have no headcanon for except “dark hair question mark” i used the opportunity to try and draw a cool headdress i saw on pinterest... with dubious results.... also curious that she wears a crown/headdress and dior doesn’t...

- elured and elurin!!! i had to draw them as kids for obvious reasons :’c they’re wearing simple child clothing i guess, and have silver hair bc they’re elu’s heirs so im guessing that to ear that title when they’re like, 6, they must resemble great grandpa a bit (also im quite fond of the silver haired elu twins hc)

- conversely, elwing resembles melian! not actually a headcanon i had but it really worked here???? also i like that out of all of melian’s descendents besides luthien (who is always an outlier and should not be counted), elwing is the one that actually uses maia-adjacent powers (i do like the idea that the power to transform was somewhere inside of her, and ulmo helped bring it out. im not sure a normal elf would survive literally turning into a bird).

i actually drew like, 4 different versions of elwing. there’s child elwing, adult elwing with nauglimir, bird elwing, and adult elwing without nauglimir

in related news, i now need to draw earendil with the silmaril forehead lamp to make everything consistent

- the one thing i’ve learned from this is that even with refs i cant draw kids ahahahah... something to practice on i guess

- also in case anyone was curious ive now finished 57 characters. the only remaining elves that are currently on the list (aka: the house of finwe. tho knowing me im prooobably gonna add voronwe... *sigh*) are gil-galad, gwindor (boyfriends and spouses count as part of the house, right? of course they do thats why i drew them), arwen, elladan and ellohir (mostly bc im still debating whether to give them the noldor background color or the sindar bg color), and glorfindel and echtelion who are not part of the house of finwe (tho they might be depending on the headcanon) but are relevant enough imma draw them anyway. the remaining rest are humans (me, biased?? nooooo)

[adanedhel]

Beleg!

Sexuality Headcanon: I think gay. He just has such a vibe of being a man who loves men in such a distinctly male way. A very “guys being dudes” type. Blushes and looks away in the locker room type. Steams when he gets a sporty “good job” slap on the ass type.

Gender Headcanon: I definitely see him as a cis guy, and part of that is because Túrin has a story that can be so easily read as a trans experience, and I think Beleg’s not quite understanding him fully is important in that sense, too.

A ship I have with said character: There is legitimately no doubt in my mind that he and Túrin were 1000% married. My mind cannot be changed. I understand that some people don’t read them that way, and that is fine, but they are wrong. I have never read a love story so tragic and so wonderful and I refuse to accept anything else as canon. Thank you and goodnight.

A BROTP I have with said character: MABLUNG who is so underrated, and so is their relationship. They are such ride or die bitches for each other, and it’s one of those super beautiful super brotherly loves that Tolkien loves to throw at us. And I think their relationship and how close they are, and how Different Beleg treats Túrin highlights that the relationship to him is very different. But Mablung is so good and content of them together I just eat UP.

A NOTP I have with said character: hmm there’s not really one I can think that I HATE but I am not the biggest fan of him with Andróg. I can see the appeal but it just doesn’t do anything for me personally.

A random headcanon: I big hc that he’s the one who gave Mablung his battle epithet. Before they had fought on the borders of Doriath deep in the trees and mostly used bows and occasionally polearms or even swords, but after they were in the middle of it during the Nirnaeth and he saw Mablung swinging a warhammer he picked up off a dead orc he started calling him the Heavy Hand while recounting the stories, and it just sort of caught on.

General Opinion over said character: I love him to bits and I think he is the #1 “deserved better” character in all of the silm.

[maglor-still-lives]

Fav character from each: the Silmarillion, LOTR, and the Hobbit?

You’re a lifesaver!

Silmarillion:

1. Maedhros, surprising no one, because everything he does is simply laden with literary potential

2. Maglor, who is actually a thinly veiled excuse to write fanfic about my favorite historical figures (kidding, he’s excellent in his own right)

3. Marbling Mailing Mablung, for no reason except I like him

4. Túrin, because again, literary potential

5. Pengolodh. I stan a nerd.

LotR:

1. Aragorn, whom I appreciate (leadership is hard! It’s scary! He’s also carrying most of the fellowship on his shoulders for a lot of the book. Wonderful man.)

2. Éomer, handsome horse man

3. Nazgul and Saruman, for unparalleled aesthetics

4. Bill the Pony, an undercelebrated MVP

5. Background elves in the movies who I can hc other characters onto (those are the sons of Elrond! And that’s Glorfindel! And Maglor! etc)

The Hobbit:

1. Kili and Fili (book) bc when my mom read it to me as a kid I thought they were very cool (and wept inconsolably when they died)

2. Beorn, who really has the right idea about how to live the good life

3. Smaug, for his excellent interview with Stephen Colbert (look it up! He’s voting for Rand Paul!)

4. Bard, who as I recall was the only person there with a sane head on his shoulders

5. The Arkenstone, which I almost called a Silmaril because it DEFINITELY IS and JIRT CAN FIGHT ME

Kitten picture, as promised: