#the hands of the king are the hands of a healer

[kingofattolia]

Breaking News: I Am Obsessed With Aragorn

[softlysilverfountainsfall]

All I'm saying is that "the hands of the king are the hands of a healer" can't have come out of nowhere, and I bet it goes back to Elros Tar-Minyatur and Numenor because there's no reason for Elros not to be a healer too, and the idea/phrase just traveled all the way down to Arnor and Gondor through the Third Age.

[gwaedhannen]

[Excerpt from Sorrow Beyond Words: Collected Testimony of the War of Wrath, 3rd Edition; edited by Elrond Peredhel. Kortirion Public Library, copy received TA 2510]

“The worst thing I saw during the War? Ancalagon of course, but you won’t find anyone who won’t mention him. Second worst thing? It was a few months later, once Morgoth had been de-footed and dragged out by the stumps, and we were cleansing Angband. We knew we had limited time; the continent was barely holding itself together before a certain dragon collapsed Thangorodrim in its death throes. Delving into the iron hells, with practically every maia of Ulmo, Aulë, Yavanna, and Tulkas singing continuously to keep it from collapsing utterly and taking the entire north with it, just having seen what they brought out of the upper levels, was a rather daunting task. Still had a curiously large number of volunteers, since within you couldn’t hear Morgoth laughing and screaming in his cage.

“So we went fast, killing orcs, experimental monsters, the occasional Umaia. Glad to say I missed the Balrog in the forges; it killed two score before Meril finally took it down. All distractions, regardless. The pits were the real goal.

“How do I even describe them? There were, as best I could divine, about three tiers of thrall quarters. The cells, for prisoners Morgoth and his lords deemed important, general quarters for most thralls, and the pits. The Valar said that he could no longer twist elves into orcs even by the time of his first imprisonment, but from the conditions there, from the bodies we pulled out…I don’t think he cared. Every torture, every debasement, every abomination against the Eruchîn that could be imagined. For each we thought might survive if we got them to the surface, there were five who wouldn’t, and ten corpses. And in the deepest, blackest pit of them all…

“The second worst thing I saw during the War of Wrath was High King Finarfin’s face when he found his sister again and knew he couldn’t save her.”

[ruthlesslistener]

☠ , ☮ and maybe ൠ with Hollow?

HOLLOW MY BELOVED

☠ Angry/Violent headcanon

-Hollow is naturally extremely slow to anger and is very good at controlling said anger when it starts to kindle, but once they've properly gotten angry, it's all over. Expect a cold, calculative fury that is deliberatly honed to an edge by all their built-up grieviances, as well as a grudge that'll never quite go away. Their siblings get a pass to an extent in that they won't hate them forever if they be annoying about something, but Hollow will also never let them live it down. For actual hatred, though, just take a look at what they did to the Radiance in Dream No More, where they tore open her face and staring deep into her eyes as they held her in place to be ripped apart by their other sibling. That's what Hollow's anger looks like. They've got a long fuse, but the explosives attatched to the end of that fuse might as well be a nuclear warhead

As for the violence aspect of it- they've been trained to be a godkiller, and even if they failed bc the actual plan of attack was rather passive, that doesn't mean that they aren't any less dangerous. They won't ever feel the desire to turn that violence upon the civilians of Hallownest (unless they turn to the Radiance or otherwise be a problem), because they believe it to be their duty to protect anyone living within the caverns, but outsiders don't get that luxury and would be dead in a fight against them before they even had a chance to draw a weapon. Hollow's also got a deeply-buried hunting instinct as well, so there's a double layer of them viewing enemies as both adversaries and prey that makes them extra fatal in a fight

☮ friendship headcanon

-Hollow doesn't really make friends as much as people sort of be nice to them, and they gain increased loyalty to them in return, but I like to headcanon that the closest they ever came to having a friend was with Quirrel, back when he was young and Hollow was still an adolescent. Monomon and the Pale King were both friends (though PK himself didn't think of it as such), so as Monomon's apprentice/adopted son, Quirrel got brought along quite often. Eventually when he was around 15 and learning how to mentor others, he was given permission to practice his lessons on the Pure Vessel as a dummy student, and eventually began to talk to them just as a person and a confident when he was left alone while Monomon and PK did their research. He had no idea that Hollow grew to be quite attached to him in the process, and neither did Hollow- they just knew that they felt calmer and at ease when he was around, and that realization both baffled and frightened them

In post-canon aus, I like to imagine that they reconvene with each other while Hollow's still recovering, and form a closer bond as a god of the lost and their favored disciple. That sounds really fancy, but it's basically just a souped-up qpp that accounts for the fact that Quirrel and Hollow are alien to each other. I also like to imagine them as fwbs when Hollow begins to have heats again post-recovery because Hollow is aroace and trusts nobody but Quirrel, while Quirrel himself is easygoing and curious enough about his friend's strange nature to offer a helping hand

ൠ random headcanon

-This is entirely inspired by Broken Open, but I feel like Hollow would be a really good midwife and/or caretaker for those that are fragile and close to death. The Void is aligned close enough with endings for them to technically qualify as a death god, and they've had enough brushes with it for them to be able to identify it when it's close. More than that, however, I feel like as the God of Nothingness they have a naturally numbing/calming aura around them that stills the world into silence, which is very useful for soothing people who are frightened or in pain. I also feel like their protective nature would mean that they'd naturally fall into the roll of a caretaker, and that a profession opposite from what they were reared for would suit them well, even if they would never be able to fully shake their knighthood. They're a protector first and foremost- they don't know how to be (or want to be) anything else

[bellatheinkdemon]

Boredom kicks my ass once again

For context, Eary Gray and Dark Choco canonically can't see very well. (For Earl Gray, it's if he loses his glasses and for Dark Choco, he just can't see too well to begin with)

[moe-broey]

Idk I also just hate the future actually. My ass is Always living in the past or simply day to day 💪💪💪

[iminye]

Please reblog if you vote and tell me your reasoning behind your choice!

[krakenartificer]

LOTR fandom - help

I haven’t the patience or focus or … something … needed to read Tolkien’s books all the way through, but I am in desperate need of reading some scenes or conversations that say that it’s OK to be a glorious victorious warrior and also to be sick and disgusted that you ever had to fight at all; that it’s OK to be grateful and overjoyed to be home and safe and also to be unable to quite relax just yet.

So … what chapter(s) of Return Of The King do I flip to, for that? (Or any other of his works, I suppose)

[acourtofquestions]

Never thought of this one this way (until a fan pointed it out to me today); but

Arobynn Hamel is Celaena Sardothien’s

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve

like LITERALLY

“give me back my girlhood it was mine first”

[godsprettiestprincess]

The first time Sam sees Lucifer’s chest scars and asks about them Lucifer tells him it was the bear that’s now his cape and the fact it was able to draw blood why he kept it

[kingofattolia]

i'm going to have to rearrange my schedule... too busy thinking about Aragorn's healing abilities for the next few days...

[peppermintgrim]

*blows a kiss to my computer* this one's for you, Aldith Sereda Wilhelmine Aeducan, kinslayer & kingmaker

[rohirriiim]

The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.

Aragorn + hands

[mithrandirl]

Then an old wife, Ioreth, the eldest of the women who served in that house, looking on the fair face of Faramir, wept, for all the people loved him. And she said: ‘Alas! if he should die. Would that there were kings in Gondor, as there were once upon a time, they say! For it is said in old lore: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer. And so the rightful king could ever be known.’

[aotearoa20]

Lotta fics with little elrond and elros tend to have Elros being more drawn to fighting and Elrond to healing, which is all well and good

But I propose to you an Elros who was the first to lean towards healing and medcines. 'The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known' is Aragorns sign, and he is from Elros' line.

For sure both of them have that association and Elrond choosing Immortality means he likely surpassed Elros in terms of skill just for fact of living longer but Elrond was Gilgalad's Herald and Bannerman, in my mind he began as the fighter and Elros began as the healer

[iceunhie]

head empty, thinking about jealous!jiaoqiu who purposefully puts ten times the spice in the food he presents to your admirer/s whenever they go and seek some of his eternally praised cuisine for a health benefit or something to heal their injuries. my petty king 🤩

with the few careless (and frankly, dense, because what in Lan's name did they think they were doing, cozying up to you in front of him) individuals who had the actual nerve to flirt with you right in front of jiaoqiu cooking, it doesn't bode well for them. at. all.

(the yaoqing receives a huge number of people who seem to have a) fainted b) fell ill c) couldn't taste anything afterwards.)

soon after, an unspoken policy is formed, warning any that ask for your hand.

if the healer jiaoqiu is in the vicinity, cease all closely intimate and casual actions with [name] at once.

if jiaoqiu sports a gentle, close eyed smile while preparing his concoctions, please prepare for an intense assault of spice. (note: smile with teeth showing indicates immense level of malice! we do not advise visiting jiaoqiu's services at said time.)

please do not attempt to flirt with healer jiaoqiu's lover; should you value your life.

-> the subject of this policy is a point of laughter for you and jiaoqiu (but mostly jiaoqiu) for a long, long time.

when you ask why he doesn't dispel the rumors of him accidentally poisoning people with spice, jiaoqiu smiles, hiding his gloat behind his fan. “it's more convenient that way.”

?????? what is happeningngh........ am i transforming into a jiaoqiu simp 😨😨