#most of the party prob towering over him lmao . :/

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i laugh abt the height difference here bc i'm pretty sure the tav in-game height is well over his canon at best 5'5 height ??

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finarfin for the meme, if you haven't done him?

1-3 things I enjoy about them

he’s quiet but not in the sense of not talking a lot, instead in the sense of talking A LOT but at a very low volume, which doesn’t help anyone’s temper

tried to get himself adopted into someone else’s family, the only reasonable response to being a child of the house of finwe

he is all five of his beautiful children’s first and most formative experience of ‘meeting a person we can’t push around.’ it probably disturbed them most when he listened to them temporarily post-darkening tbh

Something interesting about them based on tenuous circumstantial evidence

“And now they murmured that Finarfin’s son was not as a Vala to command them”… I know this isn’t necessarily meant as anything other than “one of Finrod’s many possible epithets” but I’m curious about whether (or rather, to what degree) Finarfin turning back was actively resented among the Exiles, or alternately venerated/resented depending on reigning mood—the coup at Nargothrond as a mini reenactment of the flight of the Noldor is cute on both sides

A question I have about them

“…andin the city of Tirion upon the green hill Finarfin yet ruled the remnant of theNoldor in the deep cleft of the mountains. For all those of elven-race, even theVanyar and Ingwë their lord, must breathe at times the outer air and thewind that comes over the sea from the lands of their birth; and the Valarwould not sunder the Teleri wholly from their kin. But in the Calacirya they setstrong towers and many sentinels, and at its issue upon the plains of Valmar ahost was encamped, so that neither bird nor beast nor elf nor man, nor anycreature beside that dwelt in Middle-earth, could pass that leaguer.” V CURIOUS ABOUT whether Finarfin was involved in desperate negotiations with the Valar re: not sealing off the fucking mountains lmao. I like how the paranoid insularity of the watchtowers miiiiight also be an opportunity for him to keep a very direct personal connection to the outer lands, insofar as that’s still available to him. it’s cute. I think I swapped my tenuous suspicion and question.

A random relevant line I like

But in that hour Finarfin forsook the march, and turned back, being filledwith grief, and with bitterness against the House of Fëanor, because of hiskinship with Olwë of Alqualondë; and many of his people went with him,retracing their steps in sorrow, until they beheld once more the far beam of theMindon upon Túna still shining in the night, and so came at last toValinor.

My preferred version, if there is more than one version of their story (or part of their story)

~canon~ plus shibboleth things about him marrying young? if that’s where that’s mentioned, I forget

Favorite relationship(s)

Earwen, Olwe, all his kids/grandkids but esp Finrod and Galadriel and Orodreth, Fingolfin, Indis, probs Feanor but let’s not dig too deep

Reaction to Tom Bombadil

Watchful tea party

Something I think people forget

He probably dated all Olwe’s children in succession, Earwen was just waiting. No.