#Gil-Galad

[fflewddur-feanorion]

today on Fic Ideas I Will Never Write:

Gil-Galad is a random elf who happens to look exactly like Fingon. He's successfully conned his way into becoming High King of the Noldor, and lives in fear of someone discovering his secret.

Elrond is 100% part of the Noldorin royal family, and wants out of the line of succession by any means necessary. He is also very good at forging documents.

They embark on a ridiculously over-the-top, entirely illegal adventure to get Gil into the royal family.

#tolkien #silmarillion #elrond #gil-galad

[welcomingdisaster]

The Kings of the Noldor do not cut their hair so long as they reign. But before taking the throne, each king-to-be cuts his hair in mourning for his predecessor.

Elven hair grows very, very slowly.

Finwë dies surrounded by an ocean of raven-dark hair, spilling around him as blood. Gil-galad's ankle-length hair smolders as fine silver ribbons tossed into fire.

Fingolfin, riding to Morgoth's gate with fire in his eyes, tucks his dark waist-length braid into helm.

Turgon's dark braids fall just over his shoulders as he takes up his great-sword for the last time. Fingon's curls, too short to braid, spill out of his helm and fall in his eyes, sticking his bloodied cheeks.

Fëanor had cut his hair unusually short in mourning of his beloved father; had hewed messily at the braids until his scalp was visible through the uneven tufts of hair. It looks much the same when he dies, the bald spots barely covered.

Morgoth cannot cut Maedhros's hair when he captures him, for Maedhros has already done the job himself.

#lena speaks #maedhros #feanor #fingon #turgon #gil-galad #finwe #headcanons ig!!

[hellofeanor]

"Gil-galad is acting like a dick" my brother in Manwë, Gil-galad is High King of the Noldor, a position that traditionally comes with a 100% on-the-job mortality rate. I think he's justified in being a lil bit stressed out.

#rings of power #gil-galad

[echo-bleu]

Noldor Hair Headcanons (4/4)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | On AO3

There isn’t anyone left who knows how to do Maglor’s Mourning Braids, but they are described in a lament for Fingon that’s still doing the rounds, so Elrond and Elros make their best try. That style is henceforth known as Elrond’s Mourning Braids (because Elros gets forgotten by the elves a lot after he dies, let’s not lie to ourselves).

A decade of nothing but Mourning Braids really hammers in that Elrond and Elros weren’t just hostages.

It doesn’t do a lot for their reputation, but they don’t particularly care.

Bit by bit, Elros adopts mannish customs after making his Choice, and even goes so far as to cut his hair above the shoulder. Elrond is pre-grieving his brother too much to be properly shocked about this.

(It’s still long enough to braid. It’s fine. It’s not like his brother is leaving him on purpose. Or rejecting him. Elrond knows that.)

Everyone thinks Elrond should wear his hair in the Sindarin custom but he refuses to give up his Noldor braids. Elros braids his brother’s hair until he leaves for Númenor.

Elrond and Gil-galad do each other’s hair through the Second Age. Because they’re the last of their family and the only ones to keep to the old traditions. Not at all because they’re close. Of course not. Wouldn’t be proper. (They spend two hours at it every morning alone in Gil-galad’s chambers.)

Elrond revives his Mourning Braids on his 500th birthday.

Celebrimbor learns about dwarven hair culture. It’s Very Different but kind of similar, in that fancy hairstyles are a status thing. (Or really, long hair/beard is a status thing and then you have to do something with it because otherwise it catches everywhere.)

Narvi isn’t in fact the first dwarf to touch elven hair, but that’s only because Finrod had a very extended concept of family.

Annatar magically braids his own hair, when he even bothers (his hair doesn’t even singe in the forge if it falls into the fire). This hurts Celebrimbor’s sensitivities, but he adapts to Annatar’s ways, and adapts again, and adapts, until he really can’t.

Sauron cuts off Celebrimbor’s beautiful dark braids full of dwarven beads and ties them to the spears of his personal guard. Elrond never quite manages to get that image out of his head.

At war again, Gil-Galad invents locs. Well, re-invents them really, because Silvan elves have worn them forever, but he’s the first Noldor to do it. (He has Fingon’s hair texture. Does that mean he’s Fingon’s son? Who knows. He’s not telling.)

It’s only after Gil-galad’s death that Elrond teaches himself how to braid his own hair.

He hates it.

But he won’t wear his hair loose.

(The first style he masters is Maglor’s Mourning Braids.) (It really shouldn’t be because it’s Intricate but Elrond is nothing if not stubborn.)

Imladris has a full salon, like the Noldor palaces of old.

It doesn’t get that much use, to be honest.

Erestor learns to braid really tiny braids into Glorfindel’s hair, so that he never wears his hair fully loose but it still looks like it’s loose. Everyone else thinks it’s ridiculous. Glorfindel thinks it’s the best thing. Elrond watches them with a knowing smile.

Celebrían wears her hair half-loose in the Sindar style until she marries Elrond. It takes him several years to find the strength to ask her to do his hair, but she lets him do hers and he sneaks in more and more braids until they settle on a mixed-style. When he finally allows her to do his hair, Celebrían makes her mother grumpily teach her proper Noldor braids.

Elladan and Elrohir only wear practical Sindarin braids for the day to day, but they delight in doing each other’s hair in complicated styles for feasts and ceremonies. Elrond cries the first time they accidentally replicate Maglor’s favourite hairstyle.

Arwen is a little gremlin who squirms out of her parents’ lap when they try to braid her hair. She’s also inherited even more of Melian’s hair than Elrond, so even when they manage to do a braid, it’s gone in a few hours.

It takes years after Celebrían sails, because they’re all grieving, but eventually Elrohir offers to do his father’s hair, and Elrond lets him. They don’t do it every day, but it’s a large step in their recovery process.

By the way, Thranduil’s thing for flower/leaf crowns isn’t a Sindar or Silvan practice, it’s just that he wanted to be Fancy but Not In a Noldor Way, thank you very much. He’s also very vain. His servants do his hair.

Little Estel is very cute, has very silky hair for a man, even of his line, and makes a great doll for the twins to play with. He likes his hair touched A Lot.

Arwen learns about that early on. She’s a very good silver smith. Aragorn now owns a lot of hair jewellery. He can’t make a braid to save his life, but that’s fine, because Arwen can’t wear them anyway.

In the North, he wears his hair like Elros, cut above his shoulders. Once he becomes King, he lets it grow to his waist. He’s the first Man since Tuor to casually wear his hair in elaborate Noldor braids. He accidentally sets a fashion.

Arwen also does Éowyn’s and Faramir’s hair regularly. The first time is for their wedding. Éowyn isn’t a fan of the unpractical Fëanorian styles, but the Nolofinwëan battle braids look incredibly good on her.

Wandering on the coast for two ages, Maglor no longer does anything with his hair. It doesn’t enjoy the salt at all.

When Elrond finally finds him, he almost has to cut it all off. Instead, he spends weeks carefully untangling and moisturising Maglor’s hair until he can finally braid it in the old style for him. Maglor cries.

Elrond cries too. He cries even more when Maglor sits them down on the floor and braids his hair like he used to.

They sail together with the other Ring bearers, and there’s a lot more crying when they find Celebrían, Gil-galad and Maedhros waiting for them together.

Celebrían is wearing her hair in one of the Fëanorian styles that can be done one-handed.

Galadriel isn’t entirely happy about that, but she sees Finrod and forgets about it.

There’s some more crying.

Fingon is also there (the amount of gold in his hair is a bit blinding, not that Elrond will ever tell him) and also wearing a one-handed braided style.

There are some fights over who gets to do Elrond’s hair in the next few weeks.

Celebrían wins most of them, because she’s inherited Galadriel’s viciousness, but she lets everyone have a turn.

Elrond would like to know why he doesn’t have a say in it.

(He does. They would never touch him if he didn’t want to. They’re just very happy to see him.)

He does go to visit Elwing and Eärendil in their tower, and he goes with his hair down, because he’s a peace-maker at heart.

But in Tirion, he always sports the most complex hairstyles, just barely coming short of overshadowing the High King’s (mostly because his hair is still too silky for it to hold well), because his family all want to outdo each other.

He earns the reputation of being the most beloved of all the Noldor.

It’s not wrong.

Some visuals & more in my art tag

#noldor hair headcanons #if i am to braid my mystic crown #echo's fanfiction #silmarillion #tolkien #silm fic #tolkien fanfiction #elrond #gil-galad #lotr #the lord of the rings #aragorn #arwen #celebrimbor #maglor

[anattmar]

Fingon and smol🤏 Gil-Galad

#silmarillion #silm #illustration #fingon #gil-galad #sketch #tolkien #noldor

[myceliumelium]

Maedhros has cared for a great many children through out his long life, some with more success than others. Rip elured and elurin

#in green is mae and itty bitty caranthir #in red is mae and Gil-galad #bc I cannot contain myself to one theory on that man #been doing a bit of mental exploration of gil son of mae and good fucking lord #that shit can get angsty #especially about Sirion #maedhros #caranthir #gil-galad #silmarillion #tolkien #art

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

You know what would really kill you with either tears or laughter?

All those “Unhealthy Kidnap Dads” fics but with M&M surviving via Divine Peredhel Intervention. So now M&M, who are codependently attached to each other in despair and love in equal measure, have to live confined in an apartment or something within Lindon.

And of course, the elves have to keep an eye on The Kinslayers™️, right? And Gil-Galad is demanding at least a status report once a week about The Kinslayers™️

Anyway so M&M, as is their way, are still doing their unhealthy bullshit to each other and the Lindon Elves are slowly but surely starting to intervene whenever a despairing Maedhros snarls at a hopeful Maglor, or an angry Maglor throws a wine glass at a solemn Maedhros.

Eventually, the Lindon Elves are straight up like “We need an actual mental health professional before we put these two grown-ass elves in time-out”.

And Gil-Galad, of course, is being harassed daily by Elrond about the difference between Sickness and Evil, until he just grants Elrond’s request for a mind healer (or the closest thing they have to one at the time).

Anyway, the summarized concept of this is that M&M makes the Lindon Elves see them as people not because they wish to die, but because they so obviously live in despair.

#silmarillion #silm headcanon #silm headcanons #maedhros #maglor #elrond #gil-galad #lindon #tolkien lindon #tag.words #kidnap fam #kidnap dads #dysfunctional kidnap dads dynamic but make it from an outside perspective

[pansen1802]

Aeglos

#Gil-galad #the lord of the rings #silmarillion

[nin-varisse]

I think since Tolkien named the first high king of the Noldor "hair-guy", instead of the next heir inheriting the title, there should be a "Who has the best hair?" contest everytime a high king dies to decide the succession.

#just another elf hair thing #hair competition in memory of the softest shinest and most luscious hair ever #finwe #feanor #maedhros #fingolfin #fingon #turgon #gil galad #gil-galad #noldor #elves #headcanons #silmarillion #silm #nin's thoughts

[wildwren]

Every Friend Group Needs + Elves and Dwarves (and Halbrand)

made with @aadmelioraa

Part One

#the rings of power #rings of power #trop #rop #rings of power crack #elrond #halbrand #galadriel #disa #celebrimbor #gil-galad #durin iii #durin iv #bimbo elrond my beloved #rop memes

[peregrintook]

Rings of Power’s elven clothing & armour - design appreciation

Requested by @klngfili thank you I hope you like these!! ♥

My favorites are easily Elrond’s blue and gold outfit, Arondir’s chestplate and Galadriel’s armour.

rop design team very good job thank you

#rop #ropgifs #ropedit #tropgifs #tropedit #rings of power #mine #my gifs #this show is SO PRETTY #lotr on prime #galadriel #elrond #gil-galad #arondir #celebrimbor

[darksidelightside]

I'm into cross-stitching since a couple of weeks and I just finished this piece yesterday.^^ I really like how it turned out.

#personal #random #cross stitch #The Silmarillion #Tolkien #Earendil #Elu Thingol #Feanor #Finarfin #Fingolfin #Finrod Felagund #Finwe #Gil-Galad #Idril Celebrindal #Luthien Tinuviel #Melian #elven heraldry

[welcomingdisaster]

best flavor of gil galad is "somebody's gotta do something about this" followed immediately by "fuck, i'm the somebody"

#lena speaks #gil-galad

[hellofeanor]

RINGS OF POWER WEEK 2023 Day Five: Favourite Costume

The last whose realm was fair and free Between the Mountains and the Sea

Photos by @teadrunktailor, costume and edits by me

#ropweek2023 #gil-galad #rings of power #tolkien #my cosplay #these photos were taken almost a year ago #at the banff springs hotel #(it was cold) #and i was going to edit them last year at the end of nov #but then something terrible happened on dec 1 2022 #and i had to spend the next several months complaining #but HERE WE GO 11 MONTHS LATER

[echo-bleu]

Since you voted Gil-galad as your favourite ace elf headcanon, here's ace Gil-galad for Ace Week!

I have been putting off on actually settling for a design for him because there's no good way to reconcile my headcanons and still keep his parentage open to interpretation. This design lands him quite squarely in the "son of Fingon" case, though I have not done a proper design for either Orodreth or Finduilas (only a sketch) so I could adapt...

The four and six pointed stars are inspired by Tolkien's design of his heraldic device, though it's on purple here instead of blue in honour of the ace flag.

Queer Tolkien characters series

#gil-galad #ereinion gil galad #ace week #asexuality awareness week #ace pride #ace character #queer tolkien characters #silmarillion #silm #silm art #tolkien #echo's drawings #beautiful art #echo's october 2023

[eldamaranquendi]

Middle-Earth by  Craig Elliott

1.  Fall of Gil-Galad

2.  Éowyn Shieldmaiden

3.  Gandalf

#tolkien #jrrt #jrrtolkien #jrr tolkien #the silmarillion #silmarillion #the hobbit #hobbit #the lord of the rings #lord of the rings #lotr #gandalf #gil-galad #eowyn #sauron #mairon #nazgul #Witch King Of Angmar #witchking