#nelyafinwion

[aotearoa20]

Elrond and his Surprisingly Large Collection of Fathers (pt2)

Maedhros Fëanorion

[sandwichmustbetasty]

I CANNOT FUCKING BELIEVE THEY PULLED SECRET KHUZDUL NAMES

I-

thank you bagginshield fanfiction, without you i would never know about the secret names before watching rop.

i am forever grateful to all the authors.

[the-elusive-soleil]

My standard headcanon, which I do very much like, is that Elrond and Elros are essentially curse/doom kryptonite because of Luthien mojo, Tuor-blessed-by-Ulmo mojo, etc. But it occurred to me that there could be another possibility, and I don't have time to fully write it, so y'all can run wild with it:

What if, around the time Elrond and Elros have to make the Choice of the Peredhil, they're also told that they have to choose whether to be counted as (half) Noldor or Sindar? (For right now, we'll assume Elros also has to make this choice, even though he's going to be living as a human, because it will affect how he sets up his kingdom and who he can ally with.)

The thing is, ever since they joined up with the Host of the West, they've been confusing the snot out of everybody. They look like Luthien's line. They've been raised by Feanorians for, let's say, the past forty-odd years, and it's in their mannerisms, their clothes, the way they fight. They switch, sometimes apparently at random, between using Earendilion, Nelyafinwion, or Kanafinwion as patronymics. In a camp that is ostensibly all one army, but under the surface is positively rife with different factions, they insist on making friends with people from everywhere.

The Valar are getting confused, too: what exactly are they supposed to do with these two, with their absolute trail mix of heritages?

So Eonwe or whoever finally tells them that they have to choose. Either they can be Sindar and have the friendship of Oropher's people, go by Earendilion (or maybe Elwingion, to be safe) and never speak Quenya or wear the Star of Feanor again, but have the blessing of Luthien...or they can be Noldor, and stay in touch with the people and customs they've lived most of their lives with at the expense of associating with their mother's people. Also, in that case, they'll definitely fall under some kind of doom, but it won't be so bad if they declare themselves as Nolofinwean through Idril, rather than Feanorian by adoption.

Obviously, their first response would be to be stubborn and difficult and rules-lawyering, and not choose at all. And that would be really fun to see. But say they couldn't. Say they had to choose. What then?

Let's say they split the difference. Does Elros choose to be counted as (metaphysically and by origin) Sindar so that his kingdom can thrive, and then quietly keep Elrond and Maglor and (assuming he's survived) Maedhros under his aegis so their doom can't catch up with them? Does Elrond take this on instead, since he's the designated immortal one, and try to find some way to keep in close enough touch with his brother and fathers to pass along some of his luck? How well does this work? What happens to Numenor if its first king is carrying a family curse? What happens to Elrond if he's the cursed one, trying to dodge his way through the successive ages of the world once his brother is gone?

Or let's say they both embrace the Noldor side, just to pull the rug out from under everyone who thinks they'll take this chance to ditch the people who raised them. Presumably it doesn't get as bad as it does for, say, Turin, but how bad does it get? How do they deal with the guilt crises that Maglor and Maedhros absolutely will have over this? How long does Numenor last (or does it fall in exactly the same time and manner as in canon, just with people blaming something different)? Does Rivendell exist at all? What do the Second, Third, Fourth Ages look like now?

Or let's say, for whatever reason you like, that they choose their Sindar side. Maybe because it's a side of themselves that they never got to fully explore, and they don't want to give it up out of hand. Maybe in an attempt to keep the people around them safe. Maybe because they have just a bit of foresight and see that they'll be needed in certain roles in the future and this is the best way. Maybe because Maglor and Maedhros have taken the Silmarils and vanished, and the twins think their adoptive family doesn't want them anyway. What does that look like? How do they reconcile their new lives with their old ones? How many habits do they have to break that they didn't even realize would be looked on with suspicion? How bad is the culture shock, and how long until it wears off?

Assuming they choose, how much do you think they try to fudge it, aiming for a sneaky blend of both? How well does it work? Are the attempts an open, amused secret? Or do they try and fail, over and over again, until they realize that whatever they chose is set into the fabric of reality just as their choices between Man and Elf altered something deep in them?

How will the parent(s) they didn't choose to follow react when, inevitably, they all meet again?

[mamwieleimion]

Consider also. What if they first also tried:

Elrond/Elros Earendilion/Elwingion!

But it didn't sit right. So they tried it the dwarf way.

Elrond/Elros, Son of Earendil, Son of Idril, Daughter of Turgon, Son of Fingolfin, Son of Finwe! Come here right away!

Buuut that just made twins either laugh or cry withing first two generations. Maglor and Maedhros also felt like crying as they said that.

Only after that did they gave up and named the twins.

The only people who were allowed to call twins by these names were Maedhros and Maglor themselves and their other twin. No one else.

Celebrian though it was sweet when she learned it and was allowed to use it after their marragie. Because Elrond missed being called that name.

When Elrond finally found Maglor in somewhere in Third Age, he reminded his father of who he is by using that very name give to him by the kidnap dads.

After he sailed to Valinor and was expected to introduce himself before the court as a prince/lord/member of the Royal House of Finwe, he said:

Elrond [Maedhros' Name for him] [Maglors Name for him] Finwean (he could also use all his parents name instead of Finwe and it would go like this: 'Earendilion, Nelyafinwion, Kanafinwion' - i didn't use his mothers name cause it was the Noldor side he was talking too)

It would be as big of a scandal as Galadriel sailing in with unbraided hair.

Imagine, if you will

It does not take Maglor and Maedhros very long to give Elrond and Elros father names.

Oh, they try to resist it of course. They truly do feel terrible about the whole kidnapping ordeal. (Maglor feels horrible about many, many things, Maedhros even worse, not that that has ever stopped their blades.)

They have already taken so much from Elwing and Eärendil. Maglor especially does not wish to take their place in traditional naming conventions. (Neither of them know if Eärendil intended to name the peredhel with Noldor customs, they can’t very well ask.)

Still, both Maglor and Maedhros have spent centuries full naming their younger brothers (“CELEGORM TYELKORMO TURCAFINWË YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW OR SO HELP ME”).

As it turns out you just can’t quite fit the right amount of all consuming wrath and disapproval into just “ELROND” or “ELROS”.

The twins have father names within the year.

[ao3feed-tolkien]

Herding cats

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by GoschateWabn

Gil-Galad Nelyafinwion detested his name. But using Gorthaurion was even worse.

Most days he wishes he had simply sprung from the shadows fully formed. He had been happily pretending just that until his father dropped two feral Peredhel on his doorstep.

Words: 1386, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Ereinion Gil-galad, Elrond Peredhel, Elros Tar-Minyatur, Maedhros | Maitimo, Sauron | Mairon

Additional Tags: Humor, Gil-galad Son of Plothole, Past Rape/Non-con

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/SWBq1AD

[mittenyaare]

How Elrond became known as Elrond Peredhel.

"Eärendilion!" they hail them, even as Elrond and Elros come cloaked in Fëanorian colors, the star of Fëanor's house embroidered on the breasts of each tunic.

Elros' silver eyes harden to steel and Elrond's hands clench so tightly on the reins of his horse they turn bloodlessly white.

How can they be sons of a father they cannot even recall? Who did not come back for them when their mother told him of how the havens burned at the mouths of Sirion? How can they claim to be the sons of a star when the faces they recall as fathers are not golden-skinned and golden-haired, but scared both, one with hair of flame, the other of ink?

———

"Eärendilion!" the High King of the Noldor—Erienion Gil-Galad shouts at Elrond (and not at Elros, for Elros is off with the Men), tone a scathing scolding when he spots Elrond on the battlefield for the first time during the War of Wrath.

Elrond flinches (it will take some time before he trains himself out of that reaction entirely) and the flinch is not from the tone of Artanáro's voice, but by the name he uses.

Elrond has not felt like a son of that star (the star his fathers swore a dreadfully binding oath to reclaim). For all the Eärendil sired him (and Elros), Elrond would pluck that star from the sky and present it to his fathers (adopted they may be) as a gift in a heartbeat if he could.

If only it would make a difference. It wouldn't. Morgoth still has two others, and until he is brought out in chains by the only ones who have the power to do so, regaining the silmarils is hopeless.

———

"Eärendilion!" the golden-haired, reborn, part-vanya exclaims in greeting with a grin as bright as the sun.

Elrond does not flinch in response, he has long trained himself out of such. But his eyes do harden, and his lips thin into a straight line as he turns mithril eyes as sharp as spear-points towards one he is simultaneously grateful to (if Glorfindel had not saved his sire's life, Elrond would not exist) and also wishes to shove away.

"I am called Elrond Peredhel in these lands," he replies to the balrog-slayer-slain-and-reborn. "Welcome to Imladris, Glorfindel of Gondolin."

———

Years later, Elrond will explain to his children (first his twin sons, then his beautiful daughter), each so bright their spirits shine white as stars, why he has chosen to be called by what he is (though not accurate at all) instead of the more traditional patronymic.

He will tell of his fathers, all three of them. He will say he could not choose out of love for each, and so chose what he is instead of who raised him. (His children will not understand for many, many years, that his choice was made between two, and not three fathers).

He has discarded the bitterness by that point, replaced it with understanding. But also Elrond has realized that a father is more than a sire, and even if Eärendil was charged with a lofty Doom, his Fate separated him from his sons too often and too early. Even if Maedhros and Maglor gained twin sons with bloodied hands, those hands had healed and soothed shown care and love.

Elrond becomes Elrond Peredhel because he cannot connect to Eärendilion, and because he cannot be Nelyafinwion or Kanafinwion.

In his heart of hearts, deeply buried under duty, law, and politics, Elrond Peredhel calls himself Elrond son of Maedhros and Maglor, adopted and fostered grandson of Fëanor.

When he reaches out to family on the far-shores of Westernesse, the first he will call grandmother bears not gold, nor white, nor dark hair, but red.

[the-quiet-fire-of-defiance]

trans man maeglin my beloved!!! i just think he's neat

also elrond and elros are both trans :) however their genders are not entirely comprehensible to humans OR elves (or maiar for that matter) so they just pick different ones in different situations

Hi my name is Elrond Cantëafinwë Elenyafinwë Sandakáno Aþelairë Nelyafinwion Eärendilion Kanafinwion Elwingion Peredhel and my gender is eldritch monstrosity

[ao3feed-tolkien]

Herding cats

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by GoschateWabn

Gil-Galad Nelyafinwion detested his name. But using Gorthaurion was even worse.

Most days he wishes he had simply sprung from the shadows fully formed. He had been happily pretending just that until his father dropped two feral Peredhel on his doorstep.

Words: 1386, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Ereinion Gil-galad, Elrond Peredhel, Elros Tar-Minyatur, Maedhros | Maitimo, Sauron | Mairon

Additional Tags: Humor, Gil-galad Son of Plothole, Past Rape/Non-con

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/ehwxbHN