#steampunk Silmarillion

[ofmiceandwomen]

The Silm Steampunk AU is my current hyperfixation.

And that’s why I supply you with Steampunk warrior Maedhros.

[stuff-silm-server-says]

The Steampunk Silmarillion Lore (part 1/?)

Since multiple people expressed a certain level of curiosity and I am currently very bored, I have decided to share some bits of our Silm AU.

The story takes place in Tirion, the largest elven city of Arda. There is a reason for its size - unlike the rest of Arda, Tirion underwent a surprising level of industrialization and is currently the leading economic and military power with several colonies. The only rival in the field of technology is some human kingdoms, especially Harad ones which are often under attack for their rich resources of coal and eventually petroleum. The citizens of Tirion are not aware of the existence of any other elves.

The Society of Tirion

Life in the Kingdom of Tirion is not easy. At least, unless you are rich. While you will probably get hit by a steam (or even petroleum!) powered car in Tirion while admiring the impressive architecture of the Taniquetil, life in the countryside is significantly harder. Money is everything - it means food for the family, education for the children, access to healthcare, and finally, respect.

All of the elves aren't equal and we have a perfect example of a stratified society. We have the rulers - Valar. This group is a mystery to all of the citizens of Tirion as they are seen very rarely and they spend most of their lives in the palaces of Thaniquetil.They are the indisputable authority and they are believed to have created the whole Arda thousands of years ago.

The executioners of their will are Vanyar - the fairest of the peoples of Arda and they are the only ones allowed to enter the Thaniquetil palace. They make an interesting mix of clergy and police as they make sure no laws are being broken. Their only loyalty is to the Valar and they are known for extremely harsh upbringing and discipline. Since there are not enough of them and they are all related, they found two possible solutions - marrying the other elven ethnicities (meaning Noldor) or... Inbreeding. And unfortunately, the latter choice is considered better. The head of the Police department of Tirion is Ingwë, who also happens to be the leader of the Vanyar.

The Noldor are the ones keeping the economy going by owning the business, working in the factories, or agriculture. The Noldorin nobles are often focusing on studies - mostly arts and sciences. While the Vanyar are focused on religion, the Noldorin focus is mostly material.

And then there are the Sindar - former indigenous people of the forests that were destroyed by the wood mining. Having lost their homes, the Sindar moved to Tirion to seek compensation for their loss. All those freedom-loving elves got was racial segregation. Most of the Sindar are unable to get any employment and therefore there is many of them ending up on the streets. There are many laws limiting the Sindarin rights: they can't even marry formally. However, some of them managed to gain some respect by their extensive knowledge of nature and healing.

There are multiple ongoing issues in the Tyrionian society, including

Unpaid labor - when finding workers, certain factories offer a competitive salary that can only compete with the work camp - rumors say that many Angband industries are not getting paid, and the worker housing quality is atrocious. The owner of the company is Vala and the “king of innovation” Melkor with lord Mairon as his chief executive officer.

Discrimination - the Sindar are more likely to become a target of violence, sometimes even including police brutality.

Healthcare - the average lifespan of an elf in Tirion is around two hundred years, but this number is influenced by the rich who can afford their relax and the best healthcare. Some of the working class elves only live up to 100 years and then fading away as the result of exhaustion.

You can expect more of these posts describing certain aspect of the lore in more detail.

In fact, you can even decide what!

[oopsbirdficced]

Here's one of my two arts for @tolkienrsb 2024!

Watercolor pencil and micron liner pens on watercolor paper, half of the sheet has been dyed with tea, while the other half has been left starkly black and white.

Please watch this space for links to the finished fic, written by the lovely @godlikecunning, featuring a Bloodborne-inspired gaslamp fantasy adventure! Fic reveals are on September 6th!!!!

[sesamenom]

no living man may hinder me: The Gilded Wraith of Numenor

from the Reverse Gondolin AU, based on @who-needs-words's idea for Ar-Pharazon's fate! (they also wrote a ficlet for it, check it out here!)

[tinnictheguardian]

Me: *Thinking about an alternative universe where the Feanor and his sons invent and build blimps. So can leave Valinor on their own transportation and don't have to resort to kinslaying and stealing*

The Universe and YouTube's algorithm: Steampunk in Tolkien, more likely then you think!

[wyvunn]

Steampunk Maeglin

[tilion-writes]

fic directory (for pinned post purposes)

Hi, I'm Tilion over on ao3! Decided to make a directory for my Silmarillion fics:

Scion of Mystery (Elrond investigates Gil-galad’s origin story, vaguely steampunk canonverse)

Ghosts of the First Age 'verse:

Conspire to Ignite (Fëanor haunts Eärendil's Silmaril)

The Sun Must Go On Rising (Fingon breaks Maedhros out of the Halls of Mandos)

Red, Red Moon (Keep On Rising) (Celegorm & Eluréd and Elurín)

Burning All the Way Down 'verse (On Fëanor, his sons, and madness; canon-compliant)

Maedhros & Maglor Week 2024 fics

[infatuate]

9 book recs meme! tagged by @roobylavender; ty faatima <3333. this ended up being longer than i wanted it to be but oh well

the bloody chamber & other stories - angela carter

angela carter quotes get circulated out of context on this site every 2-3 business days but i really do think everyone should tap into the bloody chamber at least once. i have written many a paper on this book & each time i uncovered some new aspect i had previously overlooked but which carter hadn't. i'm not sure what i could say about it that hasn't already been said; this is one of the best fairytale anthologies out there, period. not to mention, those quotes are so much better in context.

decreation: poetry, essays, opera - anne carson

the first book of carson's essays/poetry i ever read cover to cover after crashing against plainwater hard when i was like 16. decreation is very aptly named - it's disjointed & deconstructed & more than a little strange, moving from subject to subject, essay to poem to play to opera and back again, but it managed to capture my attention the way none of carson's other works did. decreation is a journey through the self (through sleep & the subconscious, the spirit & God) that doesn't really arrive anywhere but is worth reading for the journey. aside from showing me just what could be done with form, it also introduced to me to marguerite porete, who became my own personal medieval mystic-martyr special interest. i've since read a lot of carson, but i still think decreation is her most interesting (& maybe underrated?) work.

violence & the sacred - rene girard

a solid 75% of my essays in my last two years of undergrad used this text as scaffolding of some sort. even when i wasn't writing about violence, sacrifice, or mimesis, i was thinking about it. this is a dense book of theory that flies by because everything girard is saying is simultaneously insane & so so compelling. other people have if you're interested in rituals, the societal function of violence, the origins of the word scapegoat, or you just want to find a new jumping off point for your own thoughts on any of these topics, i think you would find violence & the sacred a really fascinating text.

the children of húrin - j.r.r. tolkien

i read the children of húrin directly after reading the hobbit at age 14; i wanted another 'short' 'standalone' tolkien book to read before diving into the lord of the rings or the silmarillion. (i clearly did not know anything about tolkien at this point in my life.) but i don't regret it at all, because it's probably the best thing he's ever written. CoH is, for the most part, about the tragic life of túrin son of húrin & how the curse on his family dooms him & everyone he crosses paths with. the tighter focus on túrin's various fuck-ups and miseries is more intimate, more detailed, and more character-driven unlike a lot of tolkien's first age work. it's also the darkest thing tolkien's written, in my opinion; this is his longest most extended greek tragedy moment & he leans into it 100%. hubris, unintentional incest, accidental murder, suicide - the children of húrin has it all. túrin turambar you will always be famous!

a master of djinn - p. djeli clark

this is my favorite new fantasy read of the last couple of years. i went into thinking i wouldn't like it at all—it's set in an edwardian-era alternate history magical steampunk cairo, for one—but clark's writing is incredibly immersive. he's very skilled at reimagining history in a way that both makes perfect sense & is wildly inventive. i thought some of its critiques of colonialism were a little shallow but otherwise it was fun. and lesbian! the main character is a dapper muslim butch, and while i'm not usually a 'representation for its own sake' kind of person, i couldn't help but be obsessed with fatma. it helps that it has a more refined perspective on islam compared to virtually any other muslim/arab fantasy novel i've ever read (this is not a high bar). a master of djinn comes with not one, but two short stories set in the same universe, so you can check out clark's writing for free & see how you like it.

as meat loves salt - maria mccann

this one was recommended to me by a twitter mutual almost 2 years ago and i haven't reread it since, but i think about it frequently anyways. it's a historical fiction novel set during the english civil war, following jacob cullen, a man initially of gentle birth who becomes a servant who becomes a soldier in the parliamentary army. characterizing it beyond that gets tricky; how do you properly describe the completely insane depths of rage, lust, love, & obsession that mccann plumbs? as meat loves salt is for the hannigram girls, the heathcliff/cathy girls, the girls who enjoy devotion & obsession going hand in unlovable hand. major tws for rape & violence, & i don't think i could read it again unless i was in the right headspace, but this one is really good.

ship of magic - robin hobb

i could have put any robin hobb book here, because i do think everyone should read robin hobb at least once. especially if you have even a passing interest in fantasy. ship of magic made the final cut because it's the perfect beginning for anyone who might be turned off by the slow character study that is the farseer trilogy. liveship traders is more fast-paced with a rotating cast of v unique characters and the best villain she's ever put to paper. it has talking ships, terrible parenting even for a fantasy book, representation for awful horrible teenage girls with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, & a truly original take on dragons.

beowulf: a new verse translation - seamus heaney

when i decided to minor in medieval studies, beowulf was at least 60% of the reason. i read the r.m. liuzza broadview translation for class (which i love, to be clear), but my prof recommended that we go read heaney's translation anyways, because it's both a good translation of beowulf & an exercise in poetic brilliance. to me, heaney's beowulf feels less like a translation & more like a free-verse poem he wrote while possessed by the spirit of a 7th century scop. i know there are better, more accurate/faithful translations, but this one has a spirit to it that's difficult to find elsewhere. honestly it's worth reading for the introduction alone.

the fortune men - nadifa mohamed

my token contemporary non-fiction fiction novel of the past couple of years. i'm always rooting for everyone somali but also? nadifa mohamed is just a great writer. this novel is set in 1950s cardiff, wales, and dramatizes the true story of mahmood hussein mattan, a somali man who was wrongfully executed for the murder of lily volpert. mohamed approaches the events with so much empathy for both victims and the extensive research she did shines through at every moment. the consistency and conviction and clarity of her writing will convince you that, even if you don't know anything about the city or the time period or the events unfolding, she definitely does. she was kinda robbed for the booker but that's just my opinion.

tagging @derelictship; @misericordae; @hesitationss; @yevrosima-the-third; @gawayne; @butchniqabi & anyone else who wants to do it!

[that-dinopunk-guy]

My Rings of Power hot take that nobody asked for is that they should lean further into being a weird not-quite-LotR show and just do whatever the hell they want. Just say it's an alternate timeline or something and go nuts with it. Deviate completely until there's no way we could possibly get The Lord of the Rings from it, kill off Galadriel, say Isildur survived the season finale by getting turned into a steampunk cyborg by a convenient bunch of Dwarves we never saw until now, give Sauron a gun, add a third Blue Wizard and have them played by Baby Metal, it's not canon, anything goes.

It might still be awful, but at least it would be awful in a way that's not just "store brand Silmarillion."

[ofmiceandwomen]

I have challenged @mersilisk for the “Two artists, one palette” challenge.

We agreed on these colours, also because it quite corresponds with our beloved Strampunk!Silmarillion.

My piece focuses on Fingon’s melancholia, that accompanied ever since his beloved pen-more-than-a-friend Nelyafinwë disappeared.

[oopsbirdficced]

sweet dreams and flying machines

Art by @oopsbirdficced / ingenious_spark (ao3)

Story by @godlikecunning /godlikecunning (AO3)

Fic rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic depiction of violence, blood, major character injury, minor character death

Relationships: Beren/Lúthien, Beren/Finrod, Beren/Lúthien/Finrod

Characters: Beren, Lúthien, Finrod, Sauron

Tags: Alternate universe - steampunk, developing relationship, introspection, polyamory, polyamory negotiations, hopeful ending, character death fix

Word Count: 9868

Summary: Beren threw an unimpressed look at them. “Were you scheming?”

Finrod had the decency to pause, but Lúthien only pressed a peck against the stubble growing on his cheek, then another on his smiling lips, then on Finrod himself. “Only ever in your favor.”

The Lay of Leithian under lamplight, in fourteen cantos.

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A collaboration created for the 2024 Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang, @tolkienrsb !

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

Rings of Power makes 500% more sense wenn you realize that amazon doesn't have the rights to the sillmariollion

-> I thought they had ONLY the rights to the silmarillion

-> That still doesn't chang ethe fact that the writting is bad

They can't do anything that actually happened in the third age

Thing is

Why didn't they just go all the way?

We know what happened in the past (silmarillion)

We know what happened in the "present" (Hobbit & LOTR)

BUT we have know idea what happens in the future

So, why not come up with new adventures wholecloth?

Hobbits still exist

Sam had children

Pippin and Merry canonicalyl spend a lot of time travelling between the shire and Rohan

Ents still exist

Dwarfs still exist

Most elfes left middle earth (though not al at once) but not all of them

Gimly and Legolas are hanging out in middle earth together at least for a while

Aragorn and Aren had children

Humans still exist

Eowyn married Faramir and they had children

SO depending on how far you set it in the future, you can even still use original characters

Also orcs and trolls still exist

Also Shelob was injured but did not die

PLUS

three palantiers are known but there used to be seven

The rings of the dwarfe kings have been lost to time, but Sauron held presumable the 3 lesser of the dwarf rings (he offered them to the King under the Lonely Mountain for their alliance)

So, you can have someone find the dwarf rings and then have humans, and dwarfs fight for who gets to have it, throw some Hobbits i to the mix that accidentalyl ended up in the middle and just want to leave, bring Legolas and Gimly out of retirment, invent some decendents

BOOM

Adventures galore

PLUS

Because it takes place in the future you can have things that weren't in the books

Depending on how far in the future (100 years or 1000 years etc ... )

You can even change the aesthetic

Either go with generic fantasy

Or you could have a victorian steampunk world with dwarfs and ents etc ...

Or you could even go full sci fi if yu want

Or idk ... time travell accident ... so you can have all of the above ...

But nope, amazon decided to write bad silmarillion fanfic and call it a day ...

[gaykarstaagforever]

Take 1: Elden Ring is way more interesting if you think about it being one weird-ass island in the world, inhabited by a lunatic cult, and what we're seeing is their perception of the ritual nonsense that controls their lives.

Like if you go there, it's a bunch of people high on mushrooms in burlap LARPing goofy magic battles in the woods. And if you ask them why, you get like a 2 hour discussion of incomprehensible chaos you can't tell if they're making up or not. But they are TOTALLY serious about it.

Take 2: This is a Japanese pastiche of Western high fantasy. It isn't supposed to make sense. It's about a vibe. The lore is just the loosest possible justification for tying the hard fights against cool bosses in weird landscapes together.

I'd enjoy it more if the magic / item system wasn't so willfully unintuitive. Like I get rewarding exploration. But I feel like you're wasting my time if I don't even know that I don't even know that I don't know stuff. The lore should provide a basic guidance on what I need, when, and where to get it. But that's not what we're doing, here. Or in any of the Souls games. I feel like Bloodborne was better about this, if only because the root complexity was slightly streamlined. But the rest of these feel basically impossible without a walkthrough or me keeping notes.

Take 3: They looked at Soul Calibur and went, "What if we really leaned into the story and characters?"

What? No! Why? That's not what that's for! That was always the weakest part of those! It just gets more confusing and incomprehensible as it goes! And that's the point, because why else is a big tiddie lady with a razor whip fighting a fencing vampire, for a magic sword he stole from a pirate, who found it in an ice cave after defeating a Steampunk cyborg samurai and a lizard man? Like this being nuts is the whole point.

Elden Ring is the people who think that is a concise narrative doing a Silmarillion. Like you play it for 50 hours, and don't even know what the hell thr Elden Ring is or what it does, besides being an excuse for why you never suffer permadeath, and can summon a big ram to ride.

And that's fine, because this is a game, so the exploration / boss-rush loop is what really matters. But trying to sort out this lore is the same as trying to figure out what the hell was going on in Soul Calibur IV, a game where also this happened:

Take 4: The Souls games really should take a page from the DoA series, and do a spin-off where all the sexy monstrosities put on bikinis and play beach volleyball.

Like, DoA knew what it was. Ninjas were battling robots made of water, which were made by a Japanese electronic company, to find out how to use professional wrestling to take over the world. Sexy volleyball with gambling minigames is exactly where this should go.

...Though I for one would certainly play a story-heavy openworld Team Ninja game. Like Skyrim, set in the Big Trouble in Little China universe.

Man. That would be sweet af.

[ao3feed-tolkien]

Oh where is the sun

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/W2wuy8X

by AdmirableMonster (Mertiya)

Lilóteo, the erstwhile Royal Physician of the Númenorean court, is waiting to be sacrificed when he receives a strange visitor.

Written for the prompt "And the Empire grows, the seeds of its glory, for every five tanks, plant a sentimental story" + manekimi's OC Death and Sauron or others

Words: 1025, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Steampunk Númenor, Part 9 of Variegated Tolkien Prompts

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Sauron | Mairon

Relationships: Original Male Character & Original Female Character, Original female character & Sauron | Mairon

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Númenor, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Torture, Prompt Fic, Sacrifice

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/W2wuy8X

[quinthejester]

Day 6 of Silvergifting Week: Alternative Universe

@silvergiftingweek

Steampunk AU! An evil scientist convincing an inventor to help him change the world <3

[animatorweirdo]

Steampunk humans visit valinor

(Some humans in steampunk style. I hope you like it and sorry for taking my time with this. Things are sometimes better when cooked slow, and excuse the bad tittle. I couldn't come up with anything better)

Requested by anonymous

Warnings; mentions of a rough life, nothing else really, Feanor is a headache.

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I'm gonna assume the human woke much earlier and had been surviving on their own in the darkened lands of middle earth.

They struggled a lot because there wasn't a lot of light, and the monsters would often snatch them into the darkness. They managed to survive and learn some skills from some elves who took pity on them.

I know you mentioned that they disliked the valars, but I can't help but imagine that Ulmo took notice of their arrival and helped them get through the struggle. He would give them a safe place and taught some skills to live beside the sea, and because of that, he would be the only liked valar among the humans.

When the humans managed to build a safe home, they started developing gadgets from metal and discovered further usage of water and fire. They then found technology and managed to better their lives without anyone's help.

They built better homes, great walls for protection, inventions for farming, and even went far to make the first airship. Water, coal, and oil were their most prized resources. And after discovering gunpowder. Humans managed to develop a gun, a great weapon against the orcs and other creatures of the night.

Humans knew there were other valars like Ulmo, but since they left them and everyone else on middle earth to survive on their own. The humans disliked them and didn't regard them as their rulers. They harbored the precious light and favored the elves. They did nothing to help the humans during their darkest time, so humans didn't see a point to have them in high regard.

Humans had some trifles with the avari and the people of Thingol since the valars favored elves the most but over time and discovering they were in the same situation, they overcame their conflict and became loyal neighbors. They even shared some of their technology with them.

Humans lived peacefully for years, but ever since Sauron took notice of their existence. Orcs and all kinds of monsters have relentlessly harassed them and their homes. Sauron tried to persuade them once to be on the same side, but humans didn't trust him since he was from the same race as the valars, thus the reason for the conflict.

They managed to repel Sauron and his creatures, but another severe problem came to their doors. Since humans lived in darkness, there wasn't enough light to raise crops and food. They managed to grow their crops thanks to the gems of starlight they received from the elves. They worked as artificial light, but there weren't enough gems anymore, so that caused a severe problem. Fishing was one of their lifestyles, but their fish stock was low because there wasn't enough fish in the sea anymore. Hunting was also an option, but the elves prohibited hunting more than agreed on, or they might risk overhunting.

The humans managed since they traded food with the elves, but if the crisis continued. The elves would face the same problem.

A terrible famine was coming, and one way to solve it was to have some light from the trees of Valinor. If the valars shared the tree's light with middle earth, it could solve their current food crisis and have Sauron's creatures back off.

Since the humans respected Ulmo, they asked him to persuade his brethren to share some of the tree light.

Ulmo heard their pleas and delivered the news. The other valars knew about the humans, but they didn't think they needed to interfere since the humans had managed for a long time on their own. They said they couldn't do it for some reason, but Ulmo found that unreasonable since it was their duty to care for all of the children of Eru. They promised they work on some alternative for the secondborns, but time passed, and they still had done nothing.

The pleading continued, but after several failed attempts to gain the Valar's attention. The humans decided it was enough and time to travel to Valinor for a serious meeting. If they didn't lend their ears through Ulmo, humans have to come themselves to have them listen.

Ulmo couldn't convince them to stay, so he at least told his brethren that the secondborns were coming for an audience. They didn't believe him at first until the humans finally arrived.

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-A mysterious ship flew through the sky, gaining everyone's attention on the ground. The elves of Valinor were frightened by the giant construction and watched as it flew above them.

-The giant ship flew near one of the mountain tops, then people inside threw ropes and anchored the airship to the mountain.

-Some of the elves went to investigate, and when they got there. A hatch opened, and a ramp fell on the ground, allowing the strange people to walk out.

-The human diplomats and leaders greeted the elves and asked to be taken to meet the valars.

-Humans have arrived.

-The valars and the elves were shooked by the giant construction the humans called an airship. The valars paled a little when the humans demanded an audience to deal with the problems of middle earth.

-Ulmo knew about their coming, so he was the least surprised.

-The valars had no choice but to hear the humans out since they came all this way. They couldn't throw them out since they didn't cause any trouble, except a minor fright with their arrival.

-The diplomats were more than respectful and subtle with the valars, so the meeting was tense.

-The elves were fascinated by the airship, and many went to greet the people on the ship. They were excited to meet the rumored humans.

-The crew members were friendly, and the visitors from middle earth wanted to do some business with the locals.

-They shared treasures and currency, and the crew members bought coal and retrieved water to refuel the ship. The other visitors wanted to buy crops and a lot of food they could deliver to middle earth to deal with the famine. So, several owners made a killing that day.

-Many inventors like Feanor were curious about the airship, so they went to see it. Feanor was frightened by the aircraft when it arrived, but when the humans assured they weren't a threat. He wanted to get inside and know its construction.

-You were the captain of the ship and leisured on the main deck. You watched the Valinor from the windows. You would have loved to go sightseeing, but you couldn't leave your position, so you satisfied yourself watching from your ship.

-You did have one of your excited crew members go out and take some pictures with a camera.

-One of your crew members asked for permission to give a couple of elves a tour of your ship. You allowed it, thinking it wasn't harmful.

-You did give them a rule, do not touch anything.

-Well, that was five minutes ago. One of your crew members came back in panic, telling the elf called Feanor was touching everything.

-You were protective of your dear ship, so you joined the tour to remind the elf lord to keep his hands to himself.

-Feanor might be a prince, but since you were the owner of the ship and not one of his people, you had the right to throw him out if he caused problems or damage.

-He obliged, but he was less than pleasing company as you showed him around your ship.

-He had good ideas on how to improve the ship's mechanics but considered most of it poorly designed.

-He was pretty much getting on everyone's nerves, especially your head mechanics.

-Feanor then got curious about your gun which was strapped against your waist and stole it a couple of times for an inspection.

-You had to unload it in panic before he accidentally shot himself.

-You had enough when his son, the little copy of him, almost tampered with a system that would have caused a severe explosion.

-You ended the tour since they had seen everything and made them walk out of your ship.

-You were polite toward strangers, but when it came to your ship. That's when you cross the line.

-You ordered your crew not to let any inventors inside. Ordinary people were okay, but not the inventors.

-If Feanor came back, he was to be shooed away with a broom.

-Unfortunately, even with your warnings, some inventors were stubborn and tried to get inside and scramble everything.

-You had a headache, so you hugged your cat for therapy.

-Luckily, your head mechanic knew how to relieve your headache and showed some love to motivate you to get through the day. He was your fiancee, so there was nothing weird about it.

-Some locals gave you two weird looks since your fiancee was an elf. They questioned you a lot because humans were mortals and elves immortal. They shouldn't be together. Well, jokes on them, your brother is marrying an elven princess in the next summer of twilight.

-In the town, Galadriel's attention was caught by a young refined-looking elven lord dressed in silver, who came to visit some relatives.

-Lord Celeborn, a representative of Thingol and his people in middle earth.

-When they saw each other, it was love at first sight, and Celeborn became clumsy, which got teased by the humans.

-Melkor, who was released from Mandos and allowed to walk upon Valinor, was surprised but interested by the humans and their technology.

-He had an idea to influence them to his side, but surprisingly, the pride of humans was almost bigger than Feanor's.

-They knew him well and his wretched subordinate Sauron, so they hated him on the spot.

-Sauron had managed to replicate some of their technology and weaponize his orcs which humans considered a great insult to their successions. Sauron was nothing but a wretched copycat.

-The diplomats wanted nothing to do with him, and you didn't allow him inside your ship since he creeped your people out, so he didn't get through with humans.

-It would frustrate him since you arrived when he planned to destroy the trees and steal the silmarils, and it didn't look like you were going to leave any time soon.

-Melkor was stuck postponing his plans, valars were stuck with angry humans who refused to leave until the valars gave in to their demands, and you were stuck with a pretty stubborn elf trying to dismantle your ship.