#line of elros

[melestasflight]

A Flower of Nimloth

Third art submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2022.

And [the Eldar] brought to Númenor many gifts: birds of song, and fragrant flowers, and herbs of great virtue. And a seedling they brought of Celeborn, the White Tree that grew in the midst of Eressëa; and that was in its turn a seedling of Galathilion the Tree of Túna, the image of Telperion that Yavanna gave to the Eldar in the Blessed Realm. And the tree grew and blossomed in the courts of the King in Armenelos; Nimloth it was named, and flowered in the evening, and the shadows of night it filled with its fragrance.

#numenor #gondor #line of elros #valinor #tolkien #fall for tolkien #scribbles & drabbles #my art

[nolofinweanweek]

The Fourth Age signified the end of the Elven era in Middle-earth and the end of Tolkien's canon. What about your own ideas for this time frame? How does Gondor change under Aragorn and Arwen's rule? Who are their children? What kind of culture develops as the Elves leave Middle-earth? What about the Elves who return or are reborn in Valinor? Can they integrate easily into the place they once called home? Is Valinor even a physical place?

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#nolofinweanweek2023 #day 6 #numenor #rivendell #gondor #line of elros #line of elrond #peredhil #arwen #silmarilllion #lord of the rings #tolkien

[marietheran]

I’m thinking how at some point Elrond, who definitely saw many Men die during his (immortal) life must have started saying something like “If you meet my brother, give him my love” to them on their deathbeds. And I think it became something of a tradition, something he was actually expected to say and maybe eventually when you had the Rangers of the North leaving Rivendell on some dangerous errand, they would add “I hope we meet again but if we don’t - I’ll be sure to tell Elros...” to their farewells and no one would be sure if that was more heartbreaking or heartwarming

#More heartwarming actually #But it would spoil my last line if I were to change it #elros tar minyatur #dunedain #Tolkien headcanons #the professor's mythopoeia #Elrond #My post #tt

[arlenianchronicles]

Thank you all so much for the kind words on my dark!Mae AU! Here’s another painting for it, this time featuring Elrond as he dances at Maedros’ dark fae court, similar to how Lúthien danced for Morgoth XDD In the same vein, Elrond (and Elros; he’s hanging around there somewhere) is trying to lull Maedros into a sense of security/ease.

I imagine Elrond’s dance is close to a ballet style, hence his pointe-like shoes. That said, I wanted to practice with perspective for this painting, and got some awesome feedback from the Artists of Arda discord chat, but ultimately set that version aside and went with this! I do feel that this version has a better composition story-wise: Maedros wants to keep Elrond close, and won’t let him dance too far away.

Also, while I was drawing Maedros’ guards, I realized that they kinda resemble my designs for Maglor and Celegorm ... Which led to the idea that Maedros subconsciously surrounds himself with people who look like his dead family :’’’’D Angst ahoy! loll

For this painting, I referenced the setting of the Swan Lake ballet, starring Natalia Osipova, specifically Odile’s Black Swan solo before the queen and her court. And the first version of this painting is under the cut, if you want to see:

Help I hate drawing grids lmaooo

#also please ignore the sketch lines behind the guards #i know they're an eyesore i'm so sorry ^^;; #i was just too tired to define them properly #clean lineart? what's that?? loll #art #my art #tolkien #silmarillion #fanart #au #dark maedhros #kidnap fam #kidnap dads #elves #eldar #noldor #sindar #elrond #maedhros #elros #my friend also mentioned that the painting gave her alice in wonderland vibes #especially with the red/white colour palette #which got me thinking about mae being the red king #watching the white pawn dance for him #while not knowing that elrond the pawn will rise thru the ranks and become the white king/queen #then again elros might fit that description better loll since he becomes king in canon XDD

[tilions]

thinking about how "the hands of the king are the hands of a healer" implies that out of the two of them it was elros who was (possibly partly due to maia blood in his veins) the better healer and i'm thinking about how much elrond despite all the skills he definitely has acquired over the years must have wished for elros to be there with him after his sons rescued celebrian because he realised that his own skills weren't enough to help her

#nfjshfhdj #look i firmly believe that both of the twins were born with some degree of special maia skill or power #for elronds it's it's strong foresight and the ability to resist evil and so on #for elros it's healing powers #and like for him and his children it was still relatively strong but further down the line the powers get watered down #but they're still above what normal humans can do and in some generations they show themselves stronger than in others #elrond #elros #tolkien #silmarillion #lotr

[ettelenethelien]

I actually think Mandos divides the line of Elros into those belonging to the Line of Lúthien and those of the House of Finwë for his own use. "Line of Lúthien" being the civil, non-trouble-causing ones (even though Lúthien herself caused up quite a stir), say Elros himself, and "House of Finwë" signifying the very trying ones (not even necessarily the very, very worst ones - but, for example, your run-of-the-mill colonialist overlord who hasn't been told "no" since that one (subsequently discharged) nanny when he was three and thinks he can shout the Lord of Mandos into granting his requests) (not much unlike Fëanor actually).

#found it in drafts #actually I've already made another post like that but. #my post #Namo #Valar #tolkien #Silmarillion #silm #númenor #elros #house of Finwë #line of Lúthien

[shrikeseams]

Once again considering the au where Miriel darts out of Mandos the instant Finwe bites it, and appears unheralded in Tirion like Eru swung a metaphorical two-by-four at the back of Feanor's head right before he's about to proclaim the Oath.

#Tolkien #Just take all the wind outta his sails #Knock his feet out from under him #And make him confront the idea that he now has his mother (much missed moured and longed-for) #Explicitly at the cost of his father (and what son could love his father more or however that line goes) #...also Fingolfin getting to experience the loss of a parent in a way that allows his half-sibling access to theirs #Which in theory he gets some idea of upon reimbodiment in Aman post-canon #But I think it would be very different when 1) the grief was still fresh and raw and 2) feanor was there visibly benefiting #Even if feanor had also still lost something #And now I'm on a tangent about a feanor-elrond(&elros) dialog about processing maternal abandonment... let's get elladan&elrohir #in here too

[isilwhore]

I’m not going to get nitpicky about Númenóreans with beards, but the choice to give Elros one is so funny to me.

He’s just like: “This is who I am, Elrond. I’m a man now. I have a beard 🤷‍♂️

#this is Isil-related like literally he’s related to him lol #I think a lot about Elros #and how his line got stupider over time #and how Elrond didn’t mention him in his sad orphan origin story #but that’s a rant for another day #I respect his ‘I choose death’ attitude and his beard #elros #elrond #lotr rings of power #rings of power #trop

[aroace-moron]

10 first lines

I wasn't really tagged for this, but I am absolutely bored out of my mind right now because of The SicknessTM, so here we go. Only 9 of these are actually published, but since I don't even want to think about anything I have written outside of this fandom, I am not going to tag them either.

So you get one extra line from a wip.

Rules: Put the first sentence from whatever fic you want in the post. Can also be the first two, or three, if you'd like. Link the fic. It doesn't have to be 10 first lines, it's just a pretty number. You can do 11 too. That's an even prettier number.

The words are written in your blood (and it's gone, gone, gone) : There is a hand on his right arm when Maedhros pushes himself up from a place in the grass he is sure he has not been lying a few minutes ago.

Winter: The Man was sleeping.

You gave me water: The wind is cold as the sun disappears behind the waves, and Galadriel hugs herself tighter.

Starlight: It was not dark.

Let me take you home: Beleg kept his distance as he led Tyelpe back to his chamber.

Blood runs thicker than water (but both feel the same when your eyes are closed): Sometimes he wades out into the river and lets it flow around his chest.

Faint Music: Sam slowly crept around the corner, careful as he did so, and his heart seemed to thunder louder in his ears than the sounds the old Mister Bilbo had described the stone giants make in their battle, though hearing those tales lay a long time back, and the little boy that had clung to the old man's words (though he had never seemed old, not to Sam, at least) and the events Bilbo had spoken of laid even farther in the past.

Red paint: Findekáno is bleeding.

In Vain: The howl that echoed from outside the cave they had found, and Finrod could not tell whether it was a few paces from the entrance or halfway across the arena, was enough to jerk Beren from his sleep, and the only thing that worried Finrod more than the boy tearing open the haphazard stitches on his hip was that the howls seemed neither human nor beastlike.

And why it was Tomorrow came (and with his grey hand led us back): Elrond had never stood on the beach he woke up on, though he recognized it instantly.

Open tag, but also: @potatoobsessed999 @tathrin @camille-lachenille @thescrapwitch @tanoraqui @thelordofgifs @that-angry-noldo @babybat98

#first line tag game #my writing #silm fics #maedhros #beren #luthien #galadriel #elrond #finrod #beleg cuthalion #celebrimbor #samwise gamgee #fingon #elwing #elros #the cottage of lost play

[thevalleyisjolly]

Headcanon that because Lúthien’s features were so prevalent among her descendants, they learned to distinguish even the smallest differences in each other’s features, even though most other people find them near enough identical: 

Lúthien always said that Dior looked more like her mother than her (though Lúthien herself looked a great deal like Melian), and Beren thought he had something of Emeldir in the sharp lines of his jaw.

Elúred and Elúrin were very young and still had the soft features of childhood when they died.  However, Dior and Nimloth both used to agree that Elúred’s little pout whenever some small thing upset him was very akin to Thingol, and that the proud tilt of Elúrin's chin was all Nimloth.

Elwing is the only descendent of Lúthien to have silver hair, thereby escaping the most obvious Lúthien comparisons.  Ironically, she is also the one who grew up to resemble Lúthien the most in features, though some of the Doriathrim who escaped with her to Sirion told her that her strong brow probably came from Beren.

There was no one left who could have told Elros that his dimples and the way his hair sometimes seemed to shine golden-brown in the sunlight were common features among the Haladin and Haldar’s line.

When Elrond arrives in Valinor, Elwing declares through tears of joy and sorrow mixed that he is the image of her father save for his eyes when he smiles, which are all Eärendil’s.  Eärendil agrees, though he adds that since he’d gotten his eyes from his mother, it’s really Idril’s eyes that his son has.

Most people cannot tell Elladan and Elrohir apart at a glance, though of course their own family can.  Celebrían maintains that Elladan gets his ears and his long nimble fingers from her father.  Elrohir is harder to pin down, but Galadriel thinks that the way he smiles is just like her brother Finrod.  When Celebrían goes to Valinor, she takes with her a locket containing miniature portraits of her family; Finrod takes one look at it, shakes his head, and gleefully declares that his dear sister is actually wrong for once in her life because Elrohir clearly has their cousin Turgon’s thin mouth.

(Celebrían asks if he will be repeating that statement to her mother’s face when she sails.  Finrod promises to make sure she has a front row seat when he does so)

Nearly everyone compares Arwen to Lúthien and they’re not wholly wrong, but it’s technically not Lúthien that she resembles.  Elrond always thought in private that she had a great look of his mother, and indeed, save for her dark hair, Arwen is the image of Elwing who herself bore the closest resemblance to Lúthien out of all her descendants.

The Númenoreans and subsequently the Dúnedain have had so many generations that while most of them still have dark hair and grey eyes, there is sufficient genetic diversity that it’s quite possible to tell them apart once you get past the more obvious traits.  However, Aragorn does have a strong likeness to Barahir.  He isn’t his double by any means, but if the two of them could have stood side by side, not a soul would have doubted that they were close kinsmen.

Eldarion is the first in many generations of Arwen’s side of the family to have no resemblance to Lúthien whatsoever, save for his dark hair and the colour of his eyes.  But the shape of his eyes are Gilraen’s, really, and he’s got Arathorn’s smile; his hair falls in tight curls like Celebrían’s, his heart-shaped face is just like Thingol’s, and though no one recognizes it, he has Tuor’s broad nose.  Meanwhile his sisters, respectively, bear striking though not identical resemblances to Aragorn, Eärendil, and Galadriel. 

#lotr #silmarillion #dior #elured #elurin #elwing #elros #elrond #elladan #elrohir #arwen #aragorn #eldarion #the wild genetics of the line of lúthien #long post

[tarninausta]

#the lord of the rings #the hobbit #the silmarillion #tolkien #i refrained from adding the entire house of finwe because there isn't enough space in any poll for all the fin- names or any of the other #shared elements #also went for names that had similarities in meaning.fili and kili are toeing the line but i decided a file and a wedge were ok #elrond #elros #elured #elurin #elladan #elrohir #amrod #amras #eowyn #eomer #hurin #huor #haleth #haldar #fili #kili #belladonna took #donnamira took #mirabella took

[arofili]

@halfelvenweek​ day three | heritage ✦ númenóreans | the king’s men

Now this yearning grew ever greater with the years; and the Númenóreans began to hunger for the undying city that they saw from afar, and the desire of everlasting life, to escape from death and the ending of delight, grew strong upon them; and ever as their power and glory grew greater their unquiet increased. For though the Valar had rewarded the Dúnedain with long life, they could not take from them the weariness of the world that comes at last, and they died, even their kings of the seed of Eärendil; and the span of their lives was brief in the eyes of the Eldar.

[...]

But the King said: ‘And does not Eärendil, my forefather, live? Or is he not in the land of Aman?’

To which they answered: ‘You know that he has a fate apart, and was adjudged to the Firstborn who die not; yet this also is his doom that he can never return again to mortal lands. Whereas you and your people are not of the Firstborn, but are mortal Men as Ilúvatar made you. Yet it seems that you desire now to have the good of both kindreds, to sail to Valinor when you will, and to return when you please to your homes. That cannot be.’

#halfelvenweek #tolkienedit #oneringnet #silmedit #silm #silmarillion #numenor #numenoreans #king's men #children of azrubel #my edit #tefain nin #basically: these are the peredhil of elros' line who desire to be both elf and man; to be peredhil #those who resent the Choice and the doom chosen for them by their ancestor; those who question why it is #they cannot be as unto the eldar their ancestors #don't get me wrong - i think that they did some fucked up shit - especially in the times later; after atanamir (the king in the quote) #but like. those are some good fucking points my dudes. why NOT?

[winterpinetrees]

Rereading the hobbit after reading Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion for the first time is unlocking special new emotions that I cannot describe. They’re close to EXU Calamity emotions, but so much stronger.

The Hobbit introduces Elrond like this. “The master of the house was an elf-friend—one of those people whose fathers came into the strange stories before the beginning of History, the wars of the evil goblins and the elves and the first men in the North. In those days of our tale there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors, and Elrond the master of the house was their chief.”

It’s vague and it sets the scene. It’s enough.

But like, that’s the Silmarillion right there! “wars of the evil goblins”, you mean the war against Morgoth? The battle of sudden flame, the fall of Gondolin, Fingolfin’s duel, every high king and kinslaying and death contained in a line. Elrond’s ancestors aren’t just some “elves and heroes of the north”, they are Beren and Luthien and Melian and Earendil! No one but Tolkien knew back then, but they did happen and they did matter!

The Silmarillion is out there now though, and so many people have read it. I read it. Maedhros and Maglor’s kidnap family mattered. Elros and Numenor mattered. There used to be a continent called Beleriand and a dog that talked three times and entirely too many grandchildren of Finwe. And it’s all gone now.

What’s left? Well, there’s two swords in a troll cave. There’s a wandering Maia with a fun hat. There’s a shiny stone that feels suspicious now, even though I know Tolkien wouldn’t have put a silmaril into a story so casually. Lastly, there’s Elrond, and he’s as kind as summer.

Elrond is as kind as summer.

#by me #tolkien #the silmarillion #the hobbit #lord of the rings #Elrond #exu calamity #kind of

[overthinkinglotr]

I was watching LOTR with friends the other day and someone pointed out that a major reason film!Elrond is upset about Arwen being in love with Aragorn is because of Elrond's own broken relationship with Isildur.

In the films Isildur and Elrond are kind of set up as....a broken failed parallel to Aragorn and Arwen?

Arwen reassures Aragorn that "he is Isildur's heir, not Isildur himself," and "is not bound to his fate"-- but Elrond disagrees, confident that Aragorn will be just like Isildur.

Film!Elrond is so certain that trusting in mankind is a mistake that will only lead Arwen to misery because he once trusted in mankind, and the man he trusted ended up failing him. His ally from the line of Elendil ended up falling to the power of the Ring and dying; he believes Aragorn may do the same thing. He doesn't just want to save Arwen's life and keep his daughter by his side; he wants to prevent Arwen from experiencing the same betrayal/heartbreak he experienced. Film!Elrond is very stoic and unsentimental, but there are all these hints at Elrond and Isildur's past relationship throughout the series. Everyone likes to make the joke "why didn't Elrond just toss Isildur into the fire?" but to me the answer is, partially, because he cared about Isildur. They were allies who fought side-by-side. After describing what happened in Mount Doom all those years ago, Elrond tells Gandalf that "It should've ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure." And I think it's interesting that he goes into passive voice for a moment, instead of saying that Isildur specifically allowed to evil to endure--because he's also blaming himself for allowing evil to endure, blaming his own failure to be harsh with Isildur and take the Ring from him by force. He's regretting that he was merciful and didn't "just toss Isildur into the fire."

His complicated emotions about Isildur also appear again in the Two Towers. After insisting that Arwen needs to give up Aragorn as a lost cause and travel into the West, Elrond has a conversation with Galadriel where she guilt-trips him for abandoning Middle Earth/mankind. When she asks him "do we let them stand alone?" Elrond walks into the study, and spends a long moment looking at his mural of Isildur.

He then, in the film's canon, agrees to send military support to one of Isildur's descendants."I don't care about Isildur anymore, men are weak," Elrond says, standing in front of his elaborate mural of Isildur and his shrine dedicated to Isildur's sword.

And yes this is all, again, a drastic departure from his characterization in the book-- most of the Aragorn-Arwen-Elrond stuff in the films is a drastic departure from the book. The films radically alter their dynamics, including eliminating stuff like Elrond being Aragorn's adopted father and all the "their bloodlines are related" stuff and etc etc etc etc etc. But honestly, now that I see it, this interpretation makes the film!Elrond-Arwen dynamic engaging in a way I hadn't recognized before? In some ways it puts Isildur into the role that Elrond's mortal brother Elros played for him in the books, because Elros is cut from the films entirely. Isildur is the reason film!Elrond knows what it's like to have some kind of close relationship with a mortal and then watch them die. When Elrond angrily speaks about the folly of trusting men, or insists to Arwen that Aragorn "is not coming back" so she should just get over him, he's speaking from experience--he's projecting his own weird failed broken betrayal-ridden Thing with Isildur onto Arwen and Aragorn. And in this context, his hopeless monologue about how Arwen will regret staying by Aragorn's side also feels like it's partially from his own experience. "If Sauron is defeated, and Aragorn is made king, and all that you hope for comes true, you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality." When he fought three thousand years ago Sauron was defeated, and Isildur did become King, and yet... TL;DR : Film!Elrond had a nasty kind-of breakup with a mortal man 3000 years ago and instead of dealing with it he decided "Men Are trash Weak" and began projecting all of his drama onto Arwen

#overthinkinglotr #lotr #XD #I like book!Elrond better in theory #but to understand elrond better id have to reread the s*lmarillion #sorry #no #X #also Im so glad the films cut all stuff about Aragorn/Arwen/Elrond being related #and all the Elrond being Aragorn's foster father stuff #I don't like it #hot take unpopular opinoin #alskdjfsdf #there are some things i wish the films hadn't cut but those aren't them #Youtube

[aragornsrockcollection]

Look, I love Maglor.

Maglor makes me feel things.

I am firmly in the camp that Maglor is the Most Gentle Feanorian, he hates violence, he sees the wrong in all they do, he has an immense amount of empathy.

And don’t you see… this does not make him The Best Feanorian, morally superior to his brothers, pure and good.

This interpretation… kinda makes him the WORST of his brothers?

Maedhros stands aside when the ships burn. He believes abandoning their cousins and people is wrong and takes a stand no matter how futile. Maglor doesn’t. Maglor burns the ships.

We don’t know that Maglor thought that was wrong, we don’t get his perspective in that part of the story. But once we start getting his perspective we get him arguing against the final acts of murder that would retrieve the Silmarils, with full knowledge that it is a bad thing to do… and then doing it anyways. I think Maglor knew burning the ships was wrong.

If you interpret Maglor this way… he doesn’t come out looking good. At least Curufin and Celegorm had conviction that attacking Doriath was right. Going along with it knowing it’s wrong is WORSE. It’s FUCKED UP.

Maglor, in many ways, is a coward. Not when facing the enemy, but when facing his brothers, or his father. He may have had the most of Nerdanel in him of his brothers, but he didn’t get her spine, her ability to say “no this is wrong” to someone she loves, and step away. I even think Maglor’s “no this is wrong” was internal until the very end, when he only had his closest brother left.

There is a period where Maglor is in charge, after Maedhros’s capture. And a lot of people headcanon Maglor having a lot of guilt over his inaction in this time. I agree he has a lot of guilt over it (I think guilt and conflicted emotions drive almost everything Maglor does) but I also think this is the BRAVEST AND MOST CORRECT MAGLOR ACTS IN THE ENTIRE FIRST AGE. The Noldor should absolutely just be seeking to survive at this point, trying to rescue Maedhros would get them all killed. Inaction is the correct call here, despite pressure to do otherwise.

And also, I can’t remember if I made this up, but I have a memory of Curufin and Celegorm both clamoring for Maglor to give up the throne in favor of Celegorm, who is absolutely a more decisive leader in line with what their father would have wanted. Fending this off would be the only recorded time when Maglor stood firm against his brothers.

Some people portray Maglor taking in Elrond and Elros as an act of defiance against Maedhros, to which I say… why? Maedhros frantically searched for Elured and Elurin to save them, he clearly was very against the murder of children, and Maglor has exactly zero instances of putting his foot down against Maedhros.

Tl.dr. Maglor having the most developed moral compass of the feanorians, far from making him a perfect angel, actually mixes with his actions and inactions to make him INCREDIBLY flawed in a completely unflattering way, and I think that’s fascinating.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #jirt #silmarillion #silm #jrr tolkien #Maglor #Maedhros #feanorians #characterization #look #I feel bad for Maglor #he was not equipped to be in the position he was in and do the right thing #but that does not make it right #I bet people will be mad at me for this #just my take #doesn’t have to be your take #he was brave when it came to battle?

[ettelenethelien]

An incomplete list of Namo Mandos' metaphorical headaches:

Fëanor (no comment needed, only how on Arda can he think Mandos is putting up with him because he wants to and wouldn't throw him out if he actually was ready to leave. Doesn't help that he's actively trying to get thrown out)

The sons of Fëanor (aside from Maedhros; can't you all follow his example and actually be repentant of, you know, mass murders??)

For that matter, unrepentant followers of Maedhros, who don't care that Maedhros himself has decided they were all in the wrong

Eöl & Aredhel

Finrod (no, listen - Finrod is good and (mostly) courteous, but he's tried to wheedle out what the fate of Men is from him on ten separate occasions and is a general troublemaker. At least he didn't stay long)

The rest of the house of Finwë. There isn't an untroublesome soul among them, which is living proof that Elros is line of Lúthien. Some of his descendants though...

Númenoreans who think they can shout the Lord of the Dead into submission, demand that he give them more life, and haven't been told "no" since that one nanny when they were three who was subsequently discharged

Númenoreans who rail at him for the injustice of the universe which allows "lesser men" to take up arms against slavers and doesn't he know how unfair it is to rob someone of their life like that

People just blaming the nearest Vala for their own bad life choices

#my post #valar #namo mandos #mandos #namo #tolkien #Silmarillion #house of Finwë #silm