#i was debating making him related somehow to lenwe but i feel like thats too much of 'everyone is related'?

[sesamenom]

here's some eriador nandor as nomads in the dunland area

(somewhat inspired by cave creature thingol)

i feel like they would favor varda as Lord of Arda over manwe, since without the treelight, their only light source would be the light of her stars + her creations are basically the only ones they're guaranteed to see every day/night.

some groups of the eriador nandor (namely lenwe's group) created glowy starlight tattoos (like a wearable version of feanor's artificial gems) as a dedication to varda (and a convenient light source). and since it's mostly dark except for the starlight, they have purple/sable face paint for war/hunting to enhance the glowy starlight effect. they mostly stop doing this after the rising, though, since the sun/moonlight makes the contrast less effective than regular green/brown camo, and it becomes more of a traditional than practical thing. (maeglin got his color scheme from the sable paint)

eol is one of the former-nomadic-nandor laegrim who migrated sometime in the first age and ended up in nan elmoth (his starlight tattoos eventually faded bc he spent too much time either indoors or in a very dark magic forest and also he was evil so varda stopped recharging him or something)

the rising of the moon and sun + morgoth + men + migration of laegrim leads to an erosion of nandorin nomadic culture (since its a lot harder to wander around mostly-peacefully stargazing when the continent is suddenly full of orcs and men) and by the third age there are like three nandorin nomads left around the southern coastal region

the oldest nandor (born between cuivienen and the rising) are more cave-creature-y, with semi-translucent skin, really big dark blue eyes (like the waters of cuvienen at night), and extra good night vision but worse normal light and color vision. the ones born after the rising have normal skin and eyes, though most of them still have the white/silver teleri hair.

#silm #silmarillion #nandor #headcanons #i still dont know how to spell cuivienen? cuiveinen? whatever it is #i imagine legolas of gondolin as one of the old laiquendi born under only the stars bc of his whole cat eyes thing #since the old nandor have worse color vision (bc they get night vision instead) i wonder if their clothes focus more on greytones? #like alternating light and dark layers #with the darkest purple/blue thing on top to make them less visible at night #but they take it off/put on a light layer when they're safe so others can see them easily #i think the brown haired lady will be my design for legolas' mother for now #i was debating making him related somehow to lenwe but i feel like thats too much of 'everyone is related'? #also the more Just Some Guy he is the better #so his mom is half nomadic nandor (grandmas side) and half rhovanion nandor/silvan (grandpas side)