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Bingqiu extras my beloved... They're so playful and affectionate with each other I scream!

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Fingon and smol🤏 Gil-Galad

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Fingon's design

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Big if true

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Bald Shang Qinghua where the northern lights shine on his beautiful shiny head so beautifully Mobei Jun falls in love all over again

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When you are both trying so hard to pretend you are not impressed by each other-

(mission failed, this is straight up flirting)

Day four of @feanorianweek

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I have mixed/varying feelings on the Halenthir scenario of "he thought they were getting married (bc LaCE) but she thought it was a one-night stand" But in such a scenario this is I think the best possible way for it to go:

A few days later, while she's working on preparations to leave Thargelion and lead everybody west, Haleth hears a couple of elves talking about "Lord Caranthir's wife", how valiant she is and how clever and how well-suited to him. It does not occur to her that they're talking about her. She assumes that Caranthir is married and didn't tell her; she's going to eviscerate him for leading her on and making her think he was available and dishonoring his wife like that. (And is definitely not jealous at all, no sir.)

Meanwhile, Caranthir hears a few Haladin gossiping about their chieftain's new lover, calling him beautiful and clearly a huge sap for her. He assumes that they're talking about someone else, some adan, because clearly that's not him. He's hurt and angry, not sure whether this is a case of Haleth having this lover before she wed him and not telling him, or of her just taking up with someone else already.

While he's trying to figure out whether to confront her about this or to just let it lie because she's leaving soon anyway, Haleth comes marching up to him in a fury about the wife he didn't tell her about, and they end up having a towering argument in which all the misunderstandings are, eventually, revealed and cleared up.

(The scene is public enough that both elves and Men write semi-humorous ballads about it. The names changed to maintain plausible deniability for the writers, but at least one version preserves a particular speech pattern of Caranthir's, which is how Maglor and then the rest of the Feanorions find out that their middle brother semi-accidentally married an adaneth.)

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Unpopular opinion no one asked for: I don’t headcanon Maglor as a subtle, melancholic minstrel with a tender soul of an artist, though I love this interpretation as well.

Idk, he’s just. He’s a son of Feanaro with hot blood boiling in his veins. An over-privileged prince from the land of Gods. A representative of a nation which became famous for their love for drama and bling. A superstar. A legend. An icon.

You know, not the type to sing ballads for a sleeping forest under a starry sky. More like gathering a full stadium of devoted fans and running across it with glittering makeup and in a jumpsuit made of diamonds, mostly because he can.

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I am a firm believer that despite all the crimes Caranthir has done (kinslaying, fraud, etc), he will only be arrested for tax evasion when he gets re-embodied.

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if celegorm had whatsapp

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sort of armor studies

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I love, Love, LOVE the idea that at any given time Caranthir is committing 13 forms of tax fraud and 12 forms of tax evasion, cause like it’s his own family members he’s meant to be paying taxes to.

If he starts doing it in Valinor, he’s ripping of dear old grandpa Finwe, who really truly his happy that his angstiest grandbaby has a hobby, its just that he wishes that hobby didn’t involve depriving his own government of funding. Caranthir doesn’t think he needs the money anyway.

If he’s doing it to the high kings of the Noldor in Beleriand, he’s doing it to his father, brothers, uncle and cousin who do actually really do need that money,what with the economy being in shambles and would be very grateful if Caranthir would empty his pockets out at the earliest convenience, thank you.

Gil Galad turns out to be Caranthir’s favourite high king soley because he just doesn’t expect him to pay taxes and thus doesn’t chase him up on it.

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Maedhros didn't give up kingship.

In the Silm it sounds like he went to Fingolfin and said "I don't wanna be king anymore, it's your turn." because it's so shortened and his giving up of the claim to the crown is put BEFORE the council.

In The Grey Annals is a longer version where the council VOTES, on who should lead the Noldor. And Fingolfin wins. Maedhros ACCEPTS the decision (unlike his brothers) which could be called "waving his claim to kingship", yes, but it's still a very different situation than in the Silm.

The kingship going to Fingolfin not by Maedhros initiative also fits the whole "dispossessed" epithet a little better. The kingship is rather taken than given away.

(Also interesting is that it seems like that Maedhros might have become king if Caranthir hadn't behaved that badly at the council.)

Here's the bit from The War Of The Jewels if anyone's interested:

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