#do the noldor have 3D printers? im sure they do

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there's a lot to be said about idril and her line's talent for grim foresight, but i have to say, the idea of young turukáno in valinor carefully carving and raising doomed, adorable, impressive architectural marvels in 3D puzzle format is my new favorite headcanon.

sometimes he enters a fugue state and wakes up to find he's smashed his carefully constructed model city. this repeats every time, so that it's just a thing that happens in his family's rooms. yes, there's anairë's lap loom for where she's bored, irissë's whittling (careful with the shavings, keep the knife away from the ground!), findekáno's collection of maps and travel journals, arakáno and nolofinwe's adorable sketching corner, and - there's turukáno again, at five or fifteen or fifty years old, suddenly white-eyed and intoning ominous warnings in a voice like the sea's while deliberately toppling his cute toy towers, oops, there he goes again.

this does not lessen his love of 3D puzzles of architectural marvels any, however - he's just certain next time it will not happen, certain that this time the sheer beauty and singularity of the effort of building his project will eliminate its eventual destruction at his hand. which is just to say that the finwëan strain of stubborn hubris is very strong in him, but we already knew that. to be fair to him, that's just what being hardcore about puzzles is like.

#turgon #nolofinweans #the silm #do the noldor have 3D printers? im sure they do #no im not procrastinating on my puzzle. what makes you think that