#now he lowkey like like arwen lmao

[sauronpilled]

celebrimbor, son of curufin.

[tathrin]

So is au a fusion? Like SW characters are Tolkienized or the other way around?

Yeah, the characters from Lord of the Rings are dropped into a Tolkien-ified version of the Star Wars universe. Aside from a few cases like the Thrawn(Kreia?)/Witch King idea that I posted before, there aren't many straight-up character mash-ups, and even in the case of Thrawn it's more about merging the characters' roles and styles into one than actually blending the characters.

The only other straight-up Combined Character that I've come up with so far is Elrond effectively being either Bail or Breha Organa. Here's thoughts from the unhinged bedtime typing:

Elrond: Bail Organa basically. Elrond, Senator of Alderaan, whose capital city is named Imladris and lies in a valley surrounded by rivers, so it's often nicknamed Rivendell by the locals; it's a peaceful planet that is secretly helping to fund and run the rebellion. His wife and three kids are in on it too (and the twins definitely take advantage of the fact that they look alike in order to alibi each other and generally just cause shit that the Empire has to deal with a la that post about Bail's ships "getting stolen, guess the Empire needs to reimburse me now!" and pre-ANH Leia being…well, Leia, lmao and just basically using her diplomatic status to Be A Shit), and Arwen and Aragorn totally are in love but cannot be together unless the Empire is destroyed and the Jedi can stop being hunted because she won't abandon the Rebellion and he won't turn his back on the Order so they can't just run off together; the only way they can be together in more than secret stolen snatches is after a complete victory. (Or if Alderaan gets exposed for the shit it's pulling and the Alderaanian leadership manages to survive and go on the run, of course. But that's not exactly the result any of them are hoping for.) Maybe when he was younger Elrond used to go on sort of "Space Doctor Without Borders" missions to help in war zones and refugee camps and stuff, and that's part of what radicalized him to join the Rebellion. That bg gives him good holonews cred, motivation, and a backstory that puts him in a position to have potentially been involved in military action in a very media-friendly sort of way (e.g. Last Alliance Herald) without actually having to have had the Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire be a recent thing. Either Celebrían is the queen of Alderaan like Breha, or we're making Alderaan a democracy and he's just their duly elected senator, but she's definitely some kind of Ruling Figure at home like a member of Alderaan Congress or something idk. (Or should she be the senator, who commutes to Coruscant, while he's the one who stays on Alderaan in between Mercy Missions, since he's the one in the "homely house" so to speak?)

Neither Arwen nor her brothers are likely going to serve as straight-up Leia analogs btw, because even the twins are more sensible and prudent than Leia, and we're going more for a Three Hunters And Company storyline (I think, in the story that definitely is not being written) than any sort of direct ANH/ESB/ROTJ sequence of events. But they basically serve the role that Leia did before she took over as senator, e.g. the children of the senator and queen? ish? who go around being an Optics Issue and lowkey pain in the Empire's ass while secretly moving information/supplies/etc around for the Rebellion, getting away with it because of Diplomatic Status.

Although the more I try to think of what to do with him, the more Gandalf seems to be falling into a sort of Kenobi/Yoda role. Which I'm pretty sure leaves Saruman as—a little too appropriately, yes I know—a Dooku/Tarkin combination. Oops?

*I'm keeping links to all the posts I make on this ridiculous au collected here, if you want to see any more rambling about it.

[flying-elliska]

Lord of the Ring?

yayyyyyyyyyy a good one (i’m focusing on the movies tho i don’t remember the books well enough) 

the first character i ever fell in love with: ARAGORN my first crush. Or was it Legolas ? I don’t remember I feel like I crushed on most of them at some point. 

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: nah they’re all still great 

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: same

my ultimate favorite character™: Eowyn

prettiest character: yeah, still Aragorn. 

my most hated character: Denethor. I mean, Sauron is this far away burning eye in the sky, he’s scary but he’s not really a character enough to hate, you know ? he’s more of a personification of how power corrupts. But Denethor is just splendid as a villain, like this horrible mix of abusive authority figure and crap father and John Noble nails the role soooooo well. Ugh. 

my OTP: Faramir x Eowyn. I mean, in the books mostly, I wish we’d seen more of them in the movies, they had such an interesting potential compared to yaaaaaaaaawn Aragorn x Arwen. Also in non canon I dig Legolas x Gimli a lot lmao

my NOTP: Yeah Aragorn x Arwen purely because they are so extremely boring they are the very illustration of ‘they’re in love because the plot says so’ i’ve always been like ????? 

favorite episode: lol Return of the King

saddest death: ...Boromir....sniffles

favorite season:  n/A

least favorite season: n/A

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: hmm idk 

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: noo

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: Faramir 

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: don’t have one 

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: Frodo x Sam