#like Elrond is doomed in Rings of Power once he properly meets Gerda and Gamli

[aspiringnexu]

Headcanon that Elves generally keep to themselves not through the aloofness brought about because of their immortality but because they are fucking helpless when it comes to mortal children.

Any mortal children. Man, Hobbit, Dwarf, any kid. Elflings are beloved for a reason but Elflings are still Elves at heart and do not possess the frankly worrying amounts of curiosity and determination that mortal children have and which gives them a certain aura of adorable that the Eldar cannot resist.

I know Elrond took Aragorn in because they took his mother in but I cannot help but think he also saw a tiny human and it clicked in his (admittedly half-Elven but it still counts) brain that this is an adorable baby and he needs doting on.

#lotr #lotr headcanons #elves #look maybe this came about because I'm reading a really good fic on Ao3 #where Thranduil is his usual bitchy self until the Bardlings set their sights on him #and he's done for #I just like the idea of these immortal idiots going so utterly soft for little babies and adorable kids #like Elrond is doomed in Rings of Power once he properly meets Gerda and Gamli #smol dwarvish kids will steal his heart away #the fic is called My Heart is an Empty Vessel if you're interested #by likethenight #its really fucking good #though its so fluffy my internal angst writer is waiting for the other shoe to drop #it does not trust the domesticity #or Thranduil being happy and spoiling Tilda with presents #Tilda just making friends with the whole Woodland Realm as well #they were helpless against the adorableness #Elves react to mortal kids like we do with particularly adorable puppies #lots of handflapping #and noises that are MOST DEFINITELY NOT highly undignified squeeing