#i initially wanted to make him cousins with pengolodh or brothers with rog but ended up deciding against it
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sakasakiii Β· 3 years ago
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hiii! i love the twins with silver hairπŸ₯° but hey, i got curious on how you drew erestor...... are those scars on his face? how do you headcanon him? do you think he is a noldo (i saw many people with this headcanon and i personally love itπŸ˜…)?
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hello hello nonnies!!! first off, major apologies for the delay in this (and the absence!!! currently swamped with work guehshsdh) but thank you all so much!! im so sosos blown away that you guys took interest in that one pic of erestor in this ask waaaghb-- plus, you're all onto something!! heres a guy who gets his own sketch page LMAOO not even 80% of the feanorians have their own sketch pages hoho
so um! to explain... i have a rly big headcanon/fascination with the concept of Himring being some sort of safe haven for the escaped thralls of Angband, given Maedhros' own history with what I would presume to be the stigma of having been in Morgoth's clutches. And so that's where ol' Restor comes into the picture! I hc him as a Noldo/Sinda-- perhaps his father was one of the exiles who settled down with a local Sinda... But that perhaps his village was overrun by orcs around the Dagor Bragollach, so he was captured with his people and taken into servitude in Angband.
After escaping, I'd imagine he wandered around Beleriand with nowhere to return to-- he has no more home or people to return to... Regular settlements turn him and other escaped thralls away... Gondolin, despite the House of the Hammer of Wrath, is a no-go bc where tf even is Gondolin?? But then he remembers old rumours of the Lord of Himring, formerly a thrall himself, who takes in those who went through the same horrors as he with some amount of caution. So Erestor tries his luck, turns up in Himring half-dead, is beyond himself when he is actually welcomed by their stoic lord, and for the first time among other elves who dont shun him for the nightmares, or gawk at him for the scars on his skin.
yadayadayada... so he remains in service to MΒ² up until the War of Wrath, and it's only then when he receives orders from them to take the Peredhel twins and go seek refuge with Gil-galad. Erestor abides, and is allowed to stay to watch over the Peredhel twins under Gilgal's rule. And so he remains, living discreetly and working behind-the-scenes even as Elrond becomes Gilgal's herald. I like to think he fought in the War of the Elves and Sauron, and that he nearly took a boat back to Valinor after the fall of Eregion with Pengolodh and the others.... but ended up staying because of his babysitter/older cousin/uncle-like attachment to young Elrond. And thus from there, it's the usual Imladris stuff :DD
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as is tradition (one i haven't done in a while eh!!!), obligatory πŸ‘ sketch πŸ‘ page πŸ‘
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(Transcription of Erestor's outburst: YOU STUPID IDIOT I HATE YOU NEVER SHOW YOUR FACE AROUND HERE EVER AGAIN THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR JUST UP AND DISAPPEARING STUPID STUPID STUPID I HATE YOU)
this turned out a little more rambly than usual (mY APOLOGIES) but coming up with the backstories and relationships of textual ghosts has to be one of my favourite things to do, so thank you for allowing me this opportunity nonnies!!! I hope this answers your questions, and thank you again for such sweet feedback on ol' Restor!!! πŸ’“πŸ’“
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