#especially elrond

[adwendoodles]

Hello @thelien-art I saw your DTIYS and I was instantly inspired to do a quick celebrian x elrond because it's super cute and also I've... never actually drawn them together? blasphemy

This was super fun but shading clothing defeated me. I definitely tried to keep the really cool flowing shapes you had for the hair and clothing folds. I made the bg pink whilst sketching and then committed too hard, now it's shojou romance time

ft. live king reaction below the cut

#silmarillion #elrond #celebrian #celrond #shading the hair was so much fun ngl #clothing tho #f me i cant do clothing. metals? np! fabric??? big f #im sorry elrond u especially suffered from this i just could not.................... #anyway thelien i discovered ur art via seeing these dtiys so! thanks for doing it now i have another good silm artist to follow #srsly tho kudos on the fabric love the drape love the colors cannot for the life of me replicate easily #inktober #artober... #i didnt feel like doing yesterday so... today two characters....even if its for a dtiys and not inktober.... #also her other hand her other hand was hell to do i think its still. too small.... f... anatomy.................. #anyway this was very fun

[sesamenom]

elladan has Opinions about aragorn's elessar outfit

(btw arwen & elladan have silver hair in this one bc of their treelight hair thing)

#silm #silmarillion #lord of the rings #lotr #aragorn #arwen #elladan #hc: elronds family uses the nickname 'el' for literally everybody #[el]rond; [el]ros #[el]ladan; [el]rohir #est[el]; undomi[el] #+ [el]wing; [el]ured; [el]urin #the sleeve things aragorn has are meant to be worn with a different shirt/robe #so you can have a fancy loose robe or shirt but functional sleeves #which is especially helpful for people with a craft where you dont want sleeves getting in the way #but aragorn for some reason is wearing a matching sleeveless shirt and shirtless sleeves and defeating the point of both #so is vardamir #though he at least has the excuse of having a craft that actually benefits from the separate sleeves

[chicotfp]

Inspired by that one scene from LOTR where Legolas is a sassy little shit)))

'Mykolaichik' For @graphicabyss ♡

#thranduil #lee pace #bard #luke evans #lotr #the hobbit #tolkien #bard the bowman #men are useless but very amusing and kind of adorable #especially future kings with long hair and charming smiles and in desperate need of hot shower #elves #are graceful sassy bastards #especially those two from mirkwood royal family #yes its elrond's attire #looks much better on Thran anyway;) #thran looking at how deep in the snow bard is: we should have invited Dain with us #edit/photo manipulation

[radjerda]

The Lord and Lady of Rivendell and their children!

This started out as a doodle of Elrond, but then he looked lonely on his own. And so like the reasonable person I am, I drew him the rest of his immediate family instead of sleeping

#Lord of the Rings #lotr #Elrond #Celebrian #Arwen Undomiel #Elladan #Elrohir #elrond peredhel #Rivendell #Imladris #Tolkien #Radj Draws #Drawing the circlet/crown things was far more difficult than I thought it would be going in but it was fun! #Trying to keep them symmetrical especially was interesting #But anyways #I just love this family they absolutely deserve many happy years together

[thefangirlofhp]

“The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal” but let’s talk why that is an oxymoron. 

To love is to be changed, goes the saying. And when Durin is faced with a drowning friend holding out his arm for salvation, Durin thinks little of his own empire. His father, King, is wary: knows that Middle-Earth and all its variations are landmarked with remnants of empires and old glories fallen to memory and time and knows that, like all else, the elves have a time, the end of which they must eventually meet, no matter how long. It is bitter, as all passings are, and inevitable like all truths. To save the elves would mean their own demise; to risk dwarven lives, to plunge deeper into the depths of the earth with its foreboding reality hanging overhead: to dig further would be turning over the soil of their own graves. And yet, Durin does exactly that. 

To love is to be changed, and who’d have thought a dwarf would defy king and duty for the sake of elves (read: one half-elf who’d taken up a sword to save his life from a troll or two. Some think three and that the sword be a bow, but that is of no matter) and yet it is exactly what Durin does. Cripples his empire to save his friend (in hindsight, it does not fall in a day or two but years do feel like days to elves), and no-one talks much about how yet another ruin fell for love. When mentioning Durin’s great line, it is with the bitter taste of remembering yet another glory of another time brought to its knees. The dwarves pinnacled in their lifetime, it is remarked, but greed is a vicious master and they met ends in the depths of mountains where fire rears its head with a whip and a wizard would meet his match, where even Orcs and fell creatures of the dark cower in fear. But there is no-one to reiterate: Durin dug deep for his friend (read: the entire elven race). Durin’s empire had little gain from elven timber of a Whatnot Sacred Forest or wheat and grain though it turned the interest of dwarven lords, but Durin—loved and loving, against his wishes and better judgment—who rushed under crumbling mines to save his mining subjects from death defies king and country, and digs up precious ore for a most vicious greed: that he should keep his friend, for one more day, and one more lifetime. 

Empires are built to fall: it is the inevitable truth. Someday, whatever day it be, regardless of the cause. Empires believe they are eternal, or so the saying goes, and offers the evidence: ruin littering the earth. Yet all recognize the ruin, and the song such empires once hummed haunt the corridors and abandoned archways. Durin’s line broken, Gil-Galad fallen. Elrond passing into memory.

To love is to be remembered, and Elrond carries the memory of Durin’s hearty laugh and the set of his brow over determined eyes and recognizes its bearing in his descendants. Thorin looks little like his late friend but for the same fire in his eyes, the same secrecy and pride. Elrond is tempted to uncover such secrets if only to see whether the same spluttering indignation exists; Elrond misses it. Durin and his kingdom fall, or rather, it shatters into scattered starlight, yet it still remains. In elven memory, and elven kingdoms, shedding its light onto changed, remembering hearts. 

#elrond and durin #elrond peredhel #the rings of power #durin #the rings of power drabble #look the show was...something but i found that if you kinda plug your mental ears to the fact that it's meant to operate on the same #wavelength as the hobbit and lotr and pretend it's something of it's own then you kind of see something enjoyable. #there were a lot of interesting storylines/messages in the subtext or so i discern #anyways elrond and durin's friendship struck me #because it kind of goes past typical enemies become friend/from enemy countries sort of trope. #especially considering durin pushed for mining mithril just cause elrond asked for him to save his race. #“the dwarves were greedy” yeah but the king shut down the mines because they were dangerous and they had no real need of them #so really mithril was mined for the elves AKA: for Elrond's sake #or at least in the show's narrative i have no clue if this is true in the books I'm yet to read the Sil. #which you know still is a beautiful fact: mithril was dug up for the elves/fast forward to Khazad Dum and the Balrog and yeah.. #it struck a heartstring.

[twofoursixohjuan]

reasoning in the tags!

#the silmarillion #tolkien #ships #to be honest i actually dislike most of these but ESPECIALLY silvergifting #fingon #maedhros #caranthir #haleth #celebrimbor #annatar #aredhel #celegorm #beleg #turin #sauron #morgoth #galadriel #elrond #gil-galad #glorfindel #ecthelion #not putting canon ships in here because i don't wanna get in that kind of fight #polls #tumblr polls

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Lasgen having to make small talk with the visiting elves from imlardis.

Lasgen: Sooooo, how’s Maglor doing these says?

Visiting Glorfindel: he’s good, he’s stopped wailing about his woes for the most part.

Lasgen: really? Man that’s great. It’s about time he got over it.

Visiting Glorfindel: yeah, except for the fact that he COMMITED 4 MASSACRES!

Lasgen: *looking anywhere except at Glorfindel* uuuh, pfft, i mean who hasn’t went insane with rage and gone on a killing spree at some point so you know you take what you can get man c’mon-

#lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #the hobbit #lotr elves #thranduil #legolas #mirkwood #greenwood the great #silvans #lasgen #glorfindel #maglor #the silvans were the ones to find maglor #but gave him back to elrond post hast #because #maglor is driving them crazy with his depressing songs #the silvans are a lot more chill when it comes to violence than most other elves #especially oropher’s line #lasgen what’d you do? #pre-orome elves were a mess and a bloodbath

[winwin17]

Canonically, Elladan and Elrohir are practically identical, so close in appearance that few can tell them apart. Therefore, I kind of have this headcanon that they used to mess with kid Aragorn and purposely confuse him as to which one of them was which.

#I'm guessing it's easier for elves to tell them apart #and probably over time Aragorn eventually got it straight #but i imagine they loved fooling people whenever they got the chance #especially if they ever got to fool a dwarf #lotr #lotr headcanons #elladan #elrohir #sons of elrond #aragorn #lord of the rings

[theoppositeofprofound]

Elwing, who ruled a mixed elven-human town of refugees, who managed diplomacy while her husband was away, who spoke multiple languages and loved the waves, was a much greater influence on the politics of early Númenor than local boat dad Eärendil or feral coleader of a political movement turned jewelry-ownership cult crawling towards the end of the world Maglor.

#elros got most of his adult skills from human leaders and Gil-galad and Círdan #but his early education is down to Elwing #Maglor taught him the basics of PR spin and some desperate tactics as well as seventy ways to feed a warband in a wasteland #all of which are useful but not civilization building #you think the feanorians were constructing stuff and improving in those last horrible years #as the earth began to surrender to Morgoth’s blight? #nah that was their mad max boarding school period #Elwing was the one showing them how to open oysters #how to defuse city council meetings #how to thatch roofs #and mend fishing nets #how to not just survive but thrive #how to speak Gondolin Quenya and Taliska and Sindarin #elros is especially her child #he’s the one who chose to rule! #who chose the sea and the press of people #the valar’s gift over middle earth #Elrond is the artist the hermit the one limboing from positions of ultimate authority like Eärendil and Maglor #Maglor’s time holding the high kingship football was a stalling pattern and by god was he good at it #but there’s not evidence he was good st much else #second sons born into the house of feanor only know slaughter their enemies write epic poems play the harp and lie #thinking again about that post on parallels between Eärendil and Maglor thank you warrioreowynofrohan

[runawaymun]

i am literally begging someone to do a side-by-side gif comparison of 

a) Elrond fighting the ring-wraiths in The Hobbit vs Aragorn fighting them in The Fellowship (besides obvious parallels they move!! the same!! way!!) 

b) Elrond commanding the archers at the Battle of Five Armies vs Aragorn commanding the archers at Helm’s Deep

I just have a lot of feelings about how Elrond’s fingerprints are all over Aragorn everywhere you look and how it’s very clear that he taught him medicine and music and how to lead an army. My boy was singing about Luthien late at night during Fellowship and you cannot tell me that he didn’t learn that from Elrond as a bedtime story. I have FEELINGS, okay. 

#elrond #aragorn #tolkien #lotr #like im constantly in my feelings about dadrond HOWEVER #today i'm especially in my feelings about dadrond with aragorn specifically

[averagenolofinwean]

Elrond: Whenever people hear about my childhood, they always tell me I should've been at the club. I tell them that no, I should've been at the library and not at a club. Then I tell them they should've been at the library when they were a child. They usually back off after that.

#Elrond hates drinking especially in clubs and bars. its just not for him #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #incorrect silmarillion quotes #incorrect quotes #incorrect lotr quotes

[aiwe-the-little-bird]

Aiwë's Masterlist

Rings of Power

Durin/Elrond/Disa:

Where Shadows Lie

Something New

Velvet and Gold (Sequel to Something New)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place on Ao3 or Here

That One Bath Scene (Sequel to Between a Rock and a Hard Place) on Ao3 or Here

Durin/Elrond:

The Stars For Company

Somewhere in the Woods on Ao3 or Here

Celebrimbor/Elrond:

For The Lovers on Ao3 or Here

#I decided to start compiling my works #especially since it's totally gonna grow #rings of power #rings of power fic #elrond #elrond peredhel #durin #disa #elrond x durin #elrond x durin x disa #have a good freaking time reading

[lotr-bitches]

i am currently experiencing maglor and elrond feelings. please return in a day or two

in all seriousness, have this scene:

‘Do you have the key to the fortress?’

Elrond looked at him strangely. Maglor just sighed.

‘Do you have it?’

‘Atar, I don’t know what you want from me.’

Maglor sighed heavily. ‘The key. Do you have it?’

Elrond turned to rifle through his desk. Truthfully, he wasn’t really looking, but he would never tell Maglor that.

Maglor sank into the chair behind him, chest heaving. He sighed which slipped into a laugh. When it eventually found its way into a sob, Elrond turned to face him again.

‘It’s all I have left of him.’

‘It’s not all you have left.’ Elrond spared a cursory glance for his father’s tears.

‘I lost him. Mae is gone.’

‘You don’t think I didn’t lose him too?’ Elrond’s voice was quiet.

‘You don’t know how it feels.’

‘I am the only person who knows how it feels.’

Elrond sighed, trying to fill the silence. ‘The fortress is inaccessible,’ Elrond said.

Maglor snorted, an undignified sound, incongruous of him.

‘So it is.’

‘It is us, in the end.’ Elrond smiled at his father and went back to his desk.

‘At the end, it is me.’

Maglor turned West.

#silm fic #silmarillion #maglor #elrond #a small scene of a larger idea #i am having a lot of feelings #about how Elrond is really the only one #who understands deeply losing a brother #especially one so close to you #I feel like mags went a little off the rails #especially at the end of the third age #when Elrond was getting closer to leaving #mags is a melancholy guy

[amethysttribble]

It occurs to me that I feel like I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about Elros’s motivations for why he chose Men but little and less on why Elrond chose Elves. Which is an oversight. 

But what metaphysical, philosophical reasons might one have to choose the fate of the Elves? The immortality and god paradise are enticing, sure, but that feels like its far to shallow for Elrond, especially considering he didn’t go to the god paradise until literally the curtain call. I also hesitate to say it was to have the time to help others over many years- which is what he ends up doing- because that’s so dismissive of the Elvish Condition

There has to be something worthwhile, philosophically speaking, to taking on Elvish metaphysical suffering and Elvish metaphysical joy.

I just don’t know what it is and I’ve never bothered to wonder and still’ve got few thoughts on the subject.

Which I think is funny, and far more telling about the Human Condition, because even in fantasy books, we bend over backwards to try and explain why one might want to be Human and never even question why one wouldn’t want to be one.

#even in Middle Earth where some people don't live to die #there is meaning to life #and to dying #fascinating bit of philosophy #especially if you ask the question #'Are elves even alive if they can't die?' #(i know they 'die' but come on that's really regeneration) #(this question is just like my dad asking me at the age of 7 about my new puppy 'does Walker know he's alive?' of course! - #'does he know he can died?' Of course not! 'then how can he know he's alive?' blew my child mind I love my dad) #I propose that a lot of Mannish language have a third state of being besides alive and dead and that category is exclusively for elves #I want more mannish philosophy give me those Gondor dissertations #and I have also completely gotten away from the question of 'what is worthwhile about being an Elf" #which is very telling #anyway #tribble post #elrond #tolkien

[legoyass]

Goddamn those elves have some nice tits

#thank the valar for giving me elf eye candy #tolkienverse #celebrimbor especially #and young elrond #the celebrimbitties #lotr #lord of the rings #rings of power #the hobbit

[pacificgasandelectric]

on god one of these days i am GOING to write that dismissive-avoidant-attachment-style!elrond fic that the world Needs

#mine #when ppl say 'e&e's fostering should be written as more fucked up' why do they never mean #'e&e should come out of their nightmare of a childhood more fucked up'. is all i'm asking #like i think they Get Better Eventually but especially if you're an elf and have literally forever and don't Need affection like humans do #lol. lmao. the speed at which elrond begins to start caring about other ppl is plausibly what might be described as 'glacial'