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#elrond deals with his emotions like an elf and is thus completely incapable of turning them off
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everyone knows that elros’ father is eärendil. of course he is; a not-insignificant amount of elros’ political legitimacy in númenor comes from the descent from the three houses of the edain he can claim through eärendil. it’s eärendil’s name on the king list, eärendil who gets honoured during the festivals. ask elros who his father is, and he’ll answer ‘eärendil’
elros doesn’t talk that much his father, which is weird, because he’s an incredibly talkative guy. he’s got precisely three canned eärendil anecdotes he rolls out whenever someone asks about him, and that’s the most he’ll say in public. in private, though, among people he knows well, he’ll occasionally drop a reference or an off-the-cuff recollection into conversation, always in relation to some other topic. ‘my old man said this’ ‘you sound like my old man’ kind of thing
but if you, like, listen to what he’s saying, maybe collate some of his stories, the person he describes as his old man doesn’t sound much like eärendil. his old man was actually around for most of his childhood. his old man taught him everything he knows about horses. his old man was someone he can consciously imitate when he’s trying to be intimidating. his old man had specific and extremely arcane opinions about chord progression
when people try to follow up on this, elros without fail dodges the question. the closest he’s come to actually addressing the discrepancy is a somewhat wistful comment that sometimes you make do with what you have
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