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mothdalf · 6 months

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Tolkientober day 14: Erenion, the High King with no castle

Just picturing a young Gil-Galad being suddenly in charge of the mess that is the Noldor in Beleriand like “well fuck”

#inktober #tolkientober #inktober day 14 #inktober castle #day 14 castle #first age antics #silmarillion #my art #erenion #gil galad who is his dad

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southfarthing · 1 year

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hc that gildor inglorion is the son of gelmir?? we know he's of the house of finrod, and "gildor son of gwindor" sounds cooler, but poor gwindor never got that far fhdbfjf 😩

so gildor son of gelmir, who is imprisoned and then brutally killed at the start of the nirnaeth arnoediad, which spurs his brother gwindor into charging ahead of schedule. and then miserable gwindor making it back to nargothrond to find little gildor now fatherless and unable to recognise his uncle 😔

#gelmir and gwindor are brothers in case that was confusing nffjfbfk #gildor #silmarillion #lotr #hc #i mean yeah inglorion but. inglor = finrod? who is also finarfin who is finrods dad and also his son. and both are gil galad's dads. so uhh #my hc

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legendaryevokercupcake · 1 year

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Oropher: Where the hell did we find this fuckin' kid, man?

Elrond: My mom threw herself off a cliff because she thought that my 'adoptive' fathers were after the rock she loved more than us and then you kinda just picked me up

Elrond: I remember that very vividly.

Gil-Galad: *Mildly horrified laughter*

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armenelols · 1 year

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For after the Last Battle and the overthrow of Morgoth, when the Valar gave Elros and Elrond a choice to belong either to the kin of the Eldar or to the king of Men, it was Elros who voyaged over sea to Númenor following the star of Eärendil; whereas Elrond remained among the Elves and carried on the lineage of King Elwë.

Note 19 - And also that of Turgon; though he preferred that of Elwë, who was not under the ban that was laid on the Exiles.

- Problem of Ros, HoME XII

Every once in a while I remember this passage and am sent spiralling into the orbit.

Elrond saw the disaster that were the Noldor and went 'nope, I am staying out of that drama. Sindar, here I come' and he's so valid for it. Living up to the as wise as a wizard. He looks at the elven side of his family tree, goes 'do you think I am stupid' and chooses the least problematic branch.

#my boy is a half-elf loud and proud but if he had to choose an elven side it for sure ain't the one that may get him exiled #plot twist: the real reason he let gandalf keep glamdring was to makes sure no one remembers he is in any way connected to finweans #at the council he's like *mumbling* 'my dad was eärendil aND MY MOM WAS ELWING DAUGHTER OF DIOR SON OF LÚTHIEN-'#noldor who? don't know any. what do you mean my best buddy is their king? haha i don't know that guy #and gil-galad is Right There #in any ase to everyone who thinks he considers himself feanorian #can you read the quote above and think for a single second he would put himself into that mess. willingly. nope didn't think so #he's hoarding all the brain cells. he's not touching that mess with a ten foot pole #that's beside the fact that sure 'love grew between them'. that was still a kidnapping after some batshit crazy murder drama #ANYWAY #i am fully of the opinion that elrond is very connected to all sides of his heritage #so noldor sindar númenor house of bëor etc etc #because he feels like that type of guy #but i also can't not find this quote absolutely hilarious #tolkien #elrond

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thefandomstorage · 1 year

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A part of me wants to write a fic with Gil-Galad somehow meeting up with an injured and still heavily traumatized Maeglin who now has white hair after the fall of Gondolin and just “Well I obviously can’t just leave you alone and injured in the wild, so I’ll take you with me.”

Gil-Galad then proceeds to lie his ass off to everyone about the strange elf he brought back and is obviously hiding. What elf? Oh that one! He’s just a friend. What’s his name? Uhm...What a coincidence, it seems to have slipped my mind! Gottagobye!

Gil-Galad keeps telling himself that he’ll exile Maeglin or hand him over to the Gondolin survivors, but he keeps putting it off, even when Maeglin is majority healed. Next thing they know, the armies of Valinor have arrived and the War of Wrath ramps up. With nothing left to do, Gil gives Maeglin a disguised name, armor and a sword, and together, they fight. They are quite surprised to discover that they work very well together. That’s probably when they start becoming friends.

And then Elrond comes in. And Gil is trying so hard to keep his two friends separated. Which is hard when you’re friends with a very curious and nosey peredhel who is very suspicious about the mysterious white haired elf who is always with the king.

It’s even funnier if Elrond is hiding Maglor

Elrond: Is that Maeglin?! Gil-Galad with an obvious Maeglin behind him: No no no, you’re seeing things.

*Maglor passes by behind Elrond*

Gil-Galad: Is that Maglor Feanorian?!

Elrond: No, you’re seeing things.

#Once again #I come back to terrorize the Silmarillion fandom with the nonsense from my head #I just think a Maeglin and Gil-Galad friendship would be interesting and messy #the enemies to friends arc #the guilt for enjoying a traitor's friendship #the guilt for being friends with the one who held his friend's dad hostage as a kid #Gil-Galad having to fight between his duty as a king and his own happiness as his own person #and his own sense of justice vs. the sense of justice as a king who is the leader of the people that includes the people Maeglin wronged #and on Maeglin's end #Regret lots of regret #A good bit of fear #trying to resist being in self pity but falls in it #Waiting for Gil-Galad to give him to the Gondolin survivors and be put on trial or smth #Then realizing he enjoys Gil's friendship and feeling guilty for that because he believes Gil deserves better #"Why would a king be friends with a traitor?'#Him deciding to do reparations by serving Gil-galad #Which is actually an excuse to stay with Gil-galad because he has no idea what to do with himself and Gil is one of his last family members #Lots of juicy stuff and ideas #But I already have like 2 Slim fics being written sooooo #This idea will have to sit in my mind #Or someone else can write it if they want #silmarillion #silmarillion fandom #lotr #lotr fandom #ereinion gil galad #maeglin #elrond peredhel #fic idea

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tathrin · 1 year

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Sleepy shitposting before bed, but: I think one of the biggest differences in vibe between Potter-fic and LotR-fic actually isn’t the difference in depth of world-building or era or epicness or anything like that; it’s that even before we all knew that Rowling was the absolute scum of the earth, Potter-fic was often about taking that story and making it better while LotR-fic is about taking the story and adding more. Expanding moreso than improving.

And I just think it’s lovely. And it’s always been like that, so it’s not even about spite for the horrid terfwaffle bigot; it’s that Potter was always predominantly appealing for its potential while LotR is appealing for what it is, already.

#which isn't to say that lotr is unflawed of course or that there's nothing that can be fixed or improved oh no #but tolkien was a genuinely GOOD person for all his flaws and failings #and he wrote a genuinely GOOD STORY and not just in terms of talent but also in sheer GOODNESS at its heart #and that shines through #just like the rot at the heart of jkr #and the fact that the two fandoms clearly felt that distinction subconsciously delights me #especially given that tolkien's world and lore is UNFINISHED and INCOMPLETE #whereas jkr clearly scraped her small brain completely empty and gave us every scrap she could muster and more #and still the reaction is: okay cool but what it if it was BETTER?#whereas in tolkien we don't even know who fucking gil-galad's damn dad is and YET #the overriding reaction isn't ''i could fix this'' but rather ''i want to make MORE of this''#idk i just think it's neat #fandom

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who-needs-words · 2 years

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Head empty only Gil-Galad

#eli rambles #gil galad #Gil-galad #Silmarillion #fucking how do I tag shit #thinking about Gil-galad’s parentage again #i raise you; it doesn’t matter who is dad is #what if he gets his right to be high king of the noldor via his mom?#we can argue fingon or finrod or orodreth all we want #it’s so darn confusing especially when you consider how succession works for the noldor #so like #maybe his mom is Lalwen #or maybe his mom was Finduilas #(or maybe he’s trans finduilas okay actually I like that)#or maybe we jump back to poor deleted Erien #his mom’s Erien now idk #listen #Finwë’s family is so complicated and so many of them die let me have this #Gil galad son of a plot hill

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havenotwillnotreadthebooks · 10 months

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Got a Celebrimbor headcanon this time, brainrot bless my nonexistent soul

I like the idea that Celebrimbor inherited Feanor’s Glare™️ because it’s a funny image to think of his father and uncles seeing him after being reembodied and at one point getting a Scalding Glare™️ and immediately getting war flashbacks from their first lives l’mao like-

Curufin, trying to Be A Dad: Tyelpë no

Celebrimbor, who spent thousands of years without Adult Supervision™️ in Endorë: *Glares Exactly Like Feanor*

Curufin, immediately yanked into 5 different flashbacks at once: i think i need to sit down *collapses into a chair*

Also funny to think of Gil-Galad and Elrond being completely unaffected by Feanor glaring at them cuz they got used to Celebrimbor glaring at them while sleep-deprived and covered in forge soot. They just can’t take a Feanor Glare™️ seriously anymore

#silmarillion #celebrimbor #tyelperinquar #curufin #elrond #elrond peredhel #gil galad #ereinion gil galad #silmarillion headcanon #silm headcanons #tag.words

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mag-lore · 8 months

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Gil-galad theory of the evening, he's Amrod.

Fëanor and co. burnt the ships, Amras is like "dad where's my brother?!" Fëanor goes "oh fuck" and the drama ensues, but! Amrod didn't actually die! He woke up in time to leap off the boat and float down the shore on some scrap of a ship. He's mad at his family because he feels like he was betrayed and abandoned (reasonable) so he decides not to rejoin the Fëanorian host and find somewhere else to live. He makes his way to the Falas and lives with Cirdan's people. There are initially weird looks because he has red hair and that's weird to them, but Amrod uses elf hair dye to blend in (sometimes he goes dark, sometimes he uses elf bleach) He goes by the name Artanaro (noble fire) at first because he survived a burning attempt and he lives there as a hunter.

Whenever his lineage is called into question he'll say something vague like "oh my family were nobles" and try to drop the topic. After a while he tells some people "I'm from Finwë's family in Valinor, no not those kinslaying ones what are you talking about" and he gets called the equally vague "decent of kings" for that.

Once everything goes to shit and Gondolin falls, Cirdan is like "you're the only one left from Finwë's line who's not a Fëanorian right? You're the king now" and Amrod just rolls with it because why not? What's the worst that could happen? And then he dies in fire and everything makes a full circle and it's cinematic something something poetry something something irony

#this has been in my head for weeks #not my personal hc but i thought it was neat #and a theory i hadn't seen before #silmarillion #Amrod #gil galad #ereinion gil galad #gil galad son of plothole

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imakemywings · 7 months

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SO SO SORRY BEING NEGATIVE IN YOUR ASKbox but It's the fact that Elrond continued the tradition of honoring Thingol by naming his twin sons Elladan and Elrohir, as well as the canonical references of ways Elrond and Elros honored their parents (by wearing their colors, the symbols, and the names!), that makes me so so so salty about the way people never write Elrond being proud of his sindar lineage. It's always noldor this, feanorian star that, that has me reeling so much, its so popular that has me rolling my eyes and thats coming from a die-hard feanorian fan, like it gets exhausting when it keeps getting pushed that Elrond bashes his mom and dad and wears the symbol of his peoples murderers, as well as hate his moms lineage, like the book says he dont, what the hell?

gjkndsgkbjnb Anon you can only imagine the amount of salt I keep off this blog by being privately salty in DMs XD

But yeah I agree...at this point I'm veeeery hesitant to read any Elrond fic by Silm fans that hasn't been vetted and approved by someone I know because I'm so weary of coming across Feanorian Elrond and Elrond-who-literally-calls-Elwing-a-bitch and Elrond who gets angry with people who justifiably do not love the Feanorians, etc.

At the very least, these sorts of takes never seem to address the devastating cultural loss that Elrond and Elros experience. Even if we want to assume the best about Maglor's ability to raise them, he simply lacks the knowledge to make up for that. What does he know of Iathrim traditions? He never even saw Doriath, except when he showed up to kill everyone. What does he know of Edanic customs, or anything of mortal life? What does he know of Gondolin, where the distinction between Sindar and Noldor all but disappeared? Elrond and Elros are isolated from anyone who might be able to help them understand their parents' cultures and their own heritage (Gil-galad, Oropher, Cirdan, etc.) and so they grow up without that knowledge, and that's just always so sad to me. I'm sure it has an impact on Elrond's later interest in collecting knowledge.

All of this is compounded, of course, by the fact that Maglor and Maedhros are quite literally responsible for the virtual extinction of the Iathrim and the total destruction of the unique culture at the Havens of Sirion.

yadda yadda opinions under the cut

These takes also rarely reckon with how disturbing Feanorian Elrond is from an assimilation perspective. Here we have a couple of young children, from a culture whose people have already been attacked, slaughtered, and driven from their homelands by the Feanorians, who experience a second such attack from those same people, who lose their parents, who are taken from any other adult in their lives who might have nurtured them, by two people who know nothing about their culture(s)...and it's supposed to be cute, the idea that Elrond prefers to speak Quenya? It's supposed to show how he ~loved~ Maglor, that he was raised so alienated from his own cultures that he prefers that of his kidnappers, of his family and people's murderers (the very people who so alienated him)? It's actually really, really sad.

And obviously these takes rarely genuinely address the trauma that Maedhros and Maglor caused Elrond and Elros, or the ongoing trauma of being raised by the people with the blood of your mother and your neighbors and your friends all over their hands. Sure, I can buy Elrond pitying them and even forgiving them eventually--but Feanorian Elrond who thinks they did nothing wrong feels like a joke.

I think of course that a large part of this is just because fans love the Feanorians and the Noldor and many of them are not interested in the Sindar (and Thingol is deeply unpopular, primarily for not getting along with the Feanorians), so they are not interested in exploring Elrond's canonical attachment to his Sindar heritage and the line of Thingol. Which is too bad! I love the Sindar and I think it's great that Elrond's biggest attachment to his heritage is to the Umanyar part, not the Amanyar part, and Elros' to the mortal part, not the immortal part. They both chose what some might (wrongly) call the "lesser" part of their heritage, and I love them for that.

In many cases I think Elrond is used as a morality pet for Maedhros and Maglor, in that if Elrond, beloved the world around, adores and champions and defends the Feanorians, then no one can defensibly dislike them. Which circles back into something about discourse surrounding liking ~problematic~ characters...you CAN actually admit the Feanorians committed multiple mass slaughters and stole two children (and killed a minimum of two others) and still like them. I do.

But also, as someone else on tumblr more eloquently pointed out, even if Elrond did feel something like this...he's tactful enough to be aware how much pain and suffering the Feanorians caused the Elves of Middle-earth, and he would never shove the Feanorians in their faces or think it was funny to watch them flinch hearing a Feanorian accent (a h/c I've actually seen) (apart from the fact that I really doubt the Feanorians continued using the thorn past the first few decades in Middle-earth).

To me, Feanorian Elrond just comes across as a clumsy attempt to redeem Maglor and Maedhros and I'm not interested in that, at the end of the day. I'm far more interested in Elrond's complicated relationship with them and his willingness or desire to hold them to account for the reality of what they did to him and his family, while also reckoning with his childhood attachment to the only adults he was permitted to grow attached to.

#asks #anonymous #anon if you ever exhaust my ability to be salty I will be amazed #mine

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daddiest-tolkien-elf · 10 months

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Daddiest Tolkien Elf: Round Two

Thranduil versus Círdan

Thranduil:

Have you fucking seen him?

I mean, come ON. That fashion sense? The jewelry?? The cunt he serves??? The absolute dom energy? Plus he’s a father but he’s also a bitch about it. In the books, he’s father but in the movies he’s daddy. Daddiest of the daddies.

The ultimate DILF. He's the hot dad, gossipy vodka aunt, and top drama queen all rolled into one and we all love him for it. I mean, have you seen him!? He's even got a sweet ride! (The elk)

He's a dad, so he qualifies, and he's hot and I love him

Círdan:

Cirdan is one of the oldest and least troublesome Elves; who wants to help everyone and waits by the shore for hundreds of years without going himself. He’s also got a beard.

He partially raised Gil-galad! He's the one everyone goes to for counsel and his advice DOESN'T MISS. His lands were frequently one of the last safe places for elves at different points in history - you can't tell me they didn't all regard him as Dad to some extent.

Feel free to add more propaganda and tag me (@daddiest-tolkien-elf), so I can reblog it here! Or send in an ask!

#daddiest tolkien elf #tolkien tournament #tolkien polls #the silmarillion #the hobbit #thranduil #cirdan

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haleth · 9 months

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Stop me if you've heard this one before, but I think Gil Galad, upon being reembodied, should get to go full Gorgug Thistlespring from Fantasy High and start asking any and all elves who were around in first age Beleriand if they're his dad.

#Gil Galad when Annatar showed up: “Are you my dad? Am I your son?”#Annatar was so confused he just left.#DO YOU SEE MY VISION #gil galad son of plothole #gil galad #silm #silmarillion #my posts <3

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vorbarrsultana · 9 months

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i have such a soft spot for arafinwean genealogy from home v and early lotr. you have the one and only inglor felagund, lord of caves, friend-of-men, king of nargothrond who is remembered by everyone well into the third age. then, there is galadriel, the eldest daughter, dad's little magician and an overachiever, who had decided that there are too many elven royals per square mile in beleriand and went over the blue mountains to found her very own realm, which would totally be better, more wondrous than dad's. his middle child is the famous gil-galad, star of radiance, the responsible one, who rules the elves of the west (like his father), dwells in the fair and free realm between the mountains and the sea (like his father) and has a phd in quendi-dunedain diplomatic relations (like his father). and enigmatic gildor inglorion is the quintessential youngest child, free to wander the woods, play his little harp, give sage advice to strangers and occasionally scare some monsters to death with songs about light of aman.

these three also make ruining sauron's day their hobby, and (mostly) succeed.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #finrod #galadriel #gil-galad #gildor #also galadriel gil-galad and gildor names all contain similar elements #which is a legacy of that version in the silm

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grey-gazania · 1 month

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I'm sorry someone bombarded you with bitchy comments 😭. While my To Read list is lengthy and continually lengthier (actually I think something of yours with her is on it), I'd like to hear more about Ianneth-Fingon-Maedhros if you want to talk about them.

@polutrope

It wasn't really upsetting, just annoying and honestly a little bit funny. This guy left comments on all six chapters of By Love or at Least Free Will, every time I updated the story, just objecting to the entire premise of the story and ranting about how Elves have incorruptible pure souls and are immune to lust. I was sorely tempted to respond with this quote from "Laws & Customs Among the Eldar":

Even when in after days, as the histories reveal, many of the Eldar in Middle-earth became corrupted, and their hearts darkened by the shadow that lies upon Arda, seldom is any tale told of deeds of lust among them.

'Seldom' is not the same thing as 'never', and furthermore, I don't think lust is even a major theme of my story. It's more about conflicting obligations and unruly hearts.

In the end I deleted the comments without responding, because I have a personal policy of not engaging with people who are acting in bad faith. But I have to assume that this guy has no actual hobbies if he spends his time hate-reading entire stories instead of just...closing the window and moving on with his life. Maybe take up crochet, bro? Or volunteer at a soup kitchen? Watch a TV show that you like? Grow some tomatoes? Do something that will be more fulfilling than typing long screeds on AO3. I promise it will make you a happier person.

Anyway. On to the actual topic of your ask! As you've probably noticed, I am very fond of Russingon. However, I am also very fond of Fingon as Gil-galad's father. At first I balanced these two ideas by keeping my Russingon ideas and my Fingon-father-of-Gil-galad ideas in two separate universes, but then I started really fleshing out Gil-galad's mother, and it made me think some thoughts. To repeat something I said to @cuarthol in a comment on AO3:

...half the genesis of Ianneth was seeing so many stories (in multiple fandoms, not just Tolkien) where the woman is written out of a canon or semi-canon couple to make room for a popular M/M ship instead, without the female character being treated with any respect. I decided that the female perspective on that situation would be a nice change of pace and interesting to write.

I'm not trying to point fingers -- I'll readily admit that I have my male faves just like the next gal and that it's fun to make them kiss -- but the wives and girlfriends don't get a lot of love in fandom, do they? And it doesn't help that the legendarium in general tends to be a bit of a sausage fest. So I decided that Fingon would have a wife and be in love with Maedhros. But instead of focusing just on the forbidden love, I was going to focus on the wife's feelings, too.

Ianneth ("bridge-woman") is one of the Northern Sindar, from the community that lives around Lake Mithrim. She's the daughter of Annael (yes, that Annael), whom I've imagined to be one of the more influential leaders among the Northern Sindar, and particularly among the Elves of Mithrim.

Her betrothal to Fingon starts as a political arrangement. Fingolfin loves Fingon dearly, of course, but he's also been hinting for a while now that Fingon really needs to settle down and start having kids so that there will be a strong line of heirs should Fingolfin die. After all, Argon's dead, and Turgon and Aredhel abruptly fucked off to god-knows-where some three hundred years ago and haven't been seen nor heard from since. Your dad needs some grandsons, Fingon, and this also seems like a ripe opportunity to strengthen the Noldor's alliance with the Northern Sindar.

I don't think political marriage is unknown among the Elves of Beleriand. (For one example in the text, see Celegorm trying to marry Luthien to force Doriath into an alliance.) And the quote I drew the title of the aforementioned Fingon/Ianneth story from, also found in "Laws and Customs Among the Eldar," is:

The Eldar wedded only once in life, and for love or at the least by free will upon either part.

Free will could easily mean, "Are we in love? No. But I'll still marry you, for the good of our peoples, and I'll bring some of Dad's soldiers along with me." That sort of thing happened all the time among real-world nobility, so I see no reason why it can't happen among Elven nobility in Beleriand, too.

At any rate, Fingolfin arranges for Fingon to meet the daughters of some of the more powerful leaders of the Northern Sindar, and he's hint-hint-hinting that Fingon really needs to pick one of them to be his wife. Fingon, having been in love with Maedhros since they were young in Valinor, is not exactly keen on this plan. But he goes along with it anyway because he is a dutiful son, he knows that his father is right about needing to strengthen the line of succession, and he also knows that revealing his (quite taboo!) relationship with Maedhros to his father would probably break Fingolfin's heart.

It takes Fingon a while to decide who to court, but he picks Ianneth because he likes her sense of humor; she has the guts to gently tease him at their first meeting, which he finds quite charming. He doesn't think he can love anyone besides Maedhros, but he does look at Ianneth and think, "This is a woman I could grow to care for and whose companionship I think could enjoy."

The trouble begins when, over the course of their courtship, Fingon starts falling in love with Ianneth without falling out of love with Maedhros. And he doesn't know what to do about this. He can't call off the marriage, and he doesn't want to break things off with Maedhros, so he decides to just...keep the whole thing with Maedhros a secret and marry Ianneth anyway. It's not a good decision, but really, are there any options here that won't end with someone getting hurt? I don't think so.

So we have Ianneth, blissfully ignorant of her husband's infidelity (for now); Fingon, in love with two people at once and feeling horribly guilty about it, but unwilling to pick one partner over the other; and Maedhros, resigned to the situation but still hurting because Fingon is no longer his alone.

Maedhros' feelings are complicated by the fact that, once he meets her, he finds that likes Ianneth. It would be easier, he thinks, if he could write her off as just a political necessity for Fingon, but it turns out that she's charming and intelligent and kind, and he can understand why Fingon loves her. His feelings soften further once Ereiniel is born, because Fingon is so happy being a father, and he loves Fingon, so how can he begrudge him that? There's a line from "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen that I always think of when I'm getting into Maedhros' head at this point:

And thanks for the trouble you took from [his] eyes. I thought it was there for good, so I never tried.

Things tick along about as smoothly as they can for thirteen years, until, in the aftermath of Fingolfin's death during the Dagor Bragollach, as Fingon prepares to send Ianneth and Ereiniel to the Falas for their safety, Ianneth learns his secret. This is understandably devastating for her, and leaves her wondering if Fingon ever really loved her as she loved him, or if his marriage to her was simply a politically expedient sham.

Add to that the fact that she leaves for the Falas less than ten hours after this revelation and spends most of that ten hours either crying or asleep, as she's too upset to really talk to Fingon about what she's discovered, and it leaves her with this horrible knowledge and all the worst thoughts that come from it gnawing at her nearly a full year until Fingon next comes to Eglarest -- time that she spends as the sole caregiver for her young daughter, among strangers in a foreign city, without her mother or her sister or any of her friends who might have theoretically been able to offer her some emotional support.

Theoretically is a key word there, though, because even if, say, her sister had come to Eglarest, Ianneth isn't sure she'd even be able to tell her. For one thing, she can't help feeling ashamed, because infidelity is very rare among Elves, and she can't help thinking that maybe she failed as a wife somehow, and if she'd done something different, Fingon wouldn't have strayed. Then there's the fact that he's the High King of the Noldor, and if this gets out it could cause a crisis in the Noldorin government and possibly tank the alliance between the House of Fingolfin and the Northern Sindar. Ianneth is a practical woman, and she's of the Northern Sindar -- the people who have been living practically on Morgoth's doorstep for centuries, with no Maia queen's magic girdle to protect them. Their alliance with the Noldor is vital, and she would never want to jeopardize it.

So Ianneth is just...completely alone with this pain. She has no one to turn to, no one who can comfort her. And that pain is central to her story, and a not insignificant part of Ereiniel's story, too.

#polutrope #turns out when you ask me about my ocs i turn into treebeard #ianneth #fingon's wife #fingon #maedhros #gil galad #woman king au #my ocs

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yourlocalnetizen · 2 years

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Rating Silm deaths

Miriel: 9/10 - Not a fun way to die but at least the child she died giving birth to was a special snowflake and not an average joe.

Finwe: 3/10 - Pretty lame if you ask me but gets points for trying to be a good dad.

Feanor: 11/10 - Spontaneously combusting sure sounds interesting. Athough it was stupid, I admire his bravery for fighting all those balrogs alone.

Elenwe: 6/10 - Poor thing. She was so brave going to middle earth with a bunch of crazy Noldor. The fanart of her death looks awesome though.

Argon: 7.5/10 - It’s said he killed an Orc Captain in the battle he was slain which seems pretty badass.

Fingolfin: 10/10 - Actually accomplished something by dying. Gets full points for his heroic sacrifice.

Angrod & Aegnor: 5/10 - I’m sorry my sweet summer children. You deserved so much better. Your deaths were unfortunately little more than footnotes though.

Aredhel: 7/10 - Took a Javelin to the shoulder to protect her son but I don’t see why she couldn’t have pulled both herself and her son out of the way.

Fingon: 8/10 - I cried like a b*tch when he died. His death sounded so painful, being held by a whip while being slaughtered by Gothmog.

Turgon: 2/10 - He got played like a fiddle by Maeglin.

Maeglin: 1/10 - Pfft. Lame. Imagine getting defeated and thrown off a wall by human with less than half your experience.

Glorfindel: 4/10 - Sorry dude. Your death wasn’t that cool. A million dudes guys died fighting balrogs and you weren’t the first to do it either.

Ecthelion: 15/10 - What a way to go out my guy. Imagine killing the dude who killed badasses like Fingon & Feanor. Wouldn’t have expected it from a happy little musician.

Finrod: 11/10 - Lmho. He went feral. Fighting a werewolf while naked and weaponless is sure something.

Celegorm: 1/10 - Turko, I love you but what a lame way to go out. A little baby half elf who might have been biologically full human completely owned you.

Caranthir & Curufin: ?/10 - We literally get no info on their deaths except that they died in a kinslaying.

Amrod & Amras: ?/10 - Same as Caranthir and Curufin.

Maedhros: 9/10 - I’m definitely not pro-suicide but his death just feels so right. Refusing to let go of the Silmaril despite the pain it’s causing him. A very fiery end for the hottest Feanorian.

Celebrimbor: 8.5/10 - It was brutal but it was far from boring.

Gil-Galad: 8/10 - I’d say it was pretty hot.

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