#moriquendi

[silmarillion-dnd]

Elvers:

Masterlist

Eldar:

Vanyar:

About: The Vanyar are the smallest host of Eldar, and were all blessed by Manwe who gave them gifts of poetry and song. All Vanyar have + 2 when using their voice, for singing or convincing others and advantage on Intelligence. They prefer to fight with spears and have white banners in battle. They are residents of Oiolossë and Valimar. They speak Sindarin (common) and Quenya (the Vanyar dialect). If they were born in Valinor they glow in the dark meaning enemies might spot them.

Description: The Vanyar all have golden hair.

Noldor:

About: The Noldor is the second host of the Eldar. Noldor means those who know, showing their thirst for knowledge. They are known for being the most skillful of the Eldar hosts and were loved by Aule, whom they learned from. Their most known skills include developing their language, building castles and towns, gem cutting, and smithing. They are also infamously known as being the proudest of the Elvers. They have advantage in Intelligence and Wisdom. As a Noldor you can be devoted to any of the Valar except Namo. They favor swords and shields above other weapons. They are residents of Tirion, Formenos, Nevrast, Hithlum, Gondolin, Nargothrond, Dorhonion, All East Beleriand, and Lindon (all over Beleriand these are just the most known of). They speak Sindarin (common) and Quenya. If they were born in Valinor they glow in the dark meaning enemies might spot them.

Description: The Noldor are known for their black (dark) and a few times red hair, and grey eyes. They are about 7 feet tall.

Teleri:

About: The Teleri is the third and largest host of the Eldar who moved to Valinor. They are known for their fair voices, which they were once named after. They have advantage in Intelligence and Charisma. They are residents of Alqualondë, Isle of Balar, Ossiriand, Doriath, Tol Eressëa, and Mithlond. They speak Sindarin (common), Quenya, Telerin, and Nandorin. If they were born in Valinor they glow in the dark meaning enemies might spot them.

Description: They are known for their mostly silver, and at times dark, hair, and some were said to have skin so pale it was described as white.

Falmari (Sub-Race of the Teleri): The Falmari were the Teleri who took the Great Journey into Beleriand and reached Valinor, and are known for their ships. They are residents of Alqualondë and Tol Eressëa. They speak Sindarin (common), Quenya, and Telerin.

Sindar (Sub-Race of the Teleri): The Sindar, also known as the grey Elvers are good singers, woodsmen, and shipbuilders. Their hair is usually dark. They are residents in Doriath, the Falas, and Nan Elmoth (all over Beleriand these are just the most known of). They speak Sindarin (common).

Nandor (Sub-Race of the Teleri): The Nandor is the Teleri who turned aside from the Great Journey to the Misty Mountains, they are described as having white skin, and dark or brown hair, and are great lovers of nature and animals in the dark and deep forests, and are a very secretive folk. They are called green Elvers. They are farmers out from their name Nandor which means farmer. They are residents of Lothlórien, as the first people there, Greenwood the Great (although that´s first mentioned in the second age, they where the first residents there so they probably where there in the first age too), Belfalas, Ithilien, might have been the first there, and Ethir Anduin, as the first people there. They speak Sindarin (common), Silvan Elvish, and Nandorin (their own language). If you play as a Nandor you automatically have an Elven Cloak (a cloak that can blend into any form of environment and gives you +3 on stealth).

Silvan (Sub-Race of the Nando): Silvan, also known as wood Elvers, are rivals to Dwarves, and descending of the Nandor who choose to live in the Vales of Anduin. They are residents of Lothlórien, Ithilien, Edhellond, Greenwood the Great, and Belfalas. They speak Sindarin (common) and Silvan Elvish (their own langue). If you play as a Silvan you automatically have an Elven Cloak (a cloak that can blend into any form of environment and gives you +3 on stealth).

Avari (Moriquendi): 

About: The Avari, or unwilling according to the Vanyar and Noldor, where the Elvers who refused to take the great journey. Some of them are said to know dark magic (following the letters and drafts it´s either song or rune magic (you can choose only one if playing an Avari)) and others where said to be corrupted by Morgoth or having turned savage in the wild, and their biggest rivals are said to be the Eldar. What is known about them is that they lived in tribes with unique and private cultures and rituals, some big others small, consisting of usually family, although only six tribes are mentioned; Kindi, Cuind, Hwenti, Windan, Kinn-lai, Penni. They are residents of Eriador, Rhûn, Taur-Im-Duinath, and the Vales of Anduin. They speak Sindarin (common) and various Avarin languages (their own languages).

Description: Nothing is said about how they look.

Pros: They have advantage in Dexterity, Constitution,  history, and arcane rolls. They have darkvision and can´t get sick, they are also immune to the spell sickness unless it´s a powerful Ainur who cast it.Cons: A lot of other races can be hostile against them, they are also hostile to each other, and a lot of the time won't want to make alliances. Elvers are also all stubborn, and usually convinced they are the only ones who are right. All Elvers take a quarter more damage in psychic attacks than other races.

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #silmarillion #vanyar #noldor #teleri #falmari #sindar #nandor #silvan #avari #moriquendi #silmarillion d&d

[thelandswemadeofpaper]

Edit: not adding Doriath and Mirkwood's royals, Amroth or Amdir cuz Sindar are a little different

#avari #eol #moriquendi #silmarillion #edrahil #tauriel #nimrodel #mithrellas #cirdan #maeglin #tolkien #denethor of ossiriand #silm #laiquendi #green elves #silvan

[hobbitofgallifrey-art]

Avari

#avari elves #tolkien #silmarillion #moriquendi #avari #watercolour and ink #wanted to make them kinda spooky (to humans) and to heavily draw on the night sky #might end up redoing this either full page or digitally because this is just one corner of a page of sketches to save room lmao

[bodysnatch3r]

@tolkienocweek day 1 - diversity

Light pressed to the wrist, like eyes to eyelid, world behind them all a-shadowed. Arched underneath the skin was promise, and was breath, in song transformed. They rose beneath the stars and knew to sing and knew nothing of the naming of the world but what it itself had told them. They called themselves Kwendî, and nothing more, for there was nothing more to measure but the light they sung of, endless far above them. They had no tongue. They had their song.

As one of the most ancient and long-standing cultures on Earth, I chose Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as one of the main inspirations for my development of the elves who first awoke in Cuiviénen. Much of the customs born there were carried Eastward by the Avari, who kept the name Kwendî as their own in spite of what the Calaquendi called them. 

#tolkienocweek #tolkienedit #silmedit #avari #moriquendi

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The Sundering of the Elves

"The Silmarillion" - J.R.R. Tolkien

#book quotes #the silmarillion #jrr tolkien #elves #sundering #quendi #eldar #avari #vanyar #noldor #teleri #calaquendi #sindar #nandor #laiquendi #umanyar #moriquendi

[stilltrails]

I assume Thingol and Eol were reborn in Valinor, which is quite cruel when you think of it because all they wanted was to remain in their homeland. Eol made an entire anti-colonialist speech when he was brought to Gondolin, Thingol being Thingol explains a lot, but neither of these two actually wanted to leave Middle Earth.

They were about in their actions, and to be killed and reborn in a world that they did not want to be in, where they consider their colonizers to rule?

idk i think about this a lot. same with the other Sindar/Teleri (yes, even Elwing).

#eol moriquendi #elwing #thingol #tolkien #the silmarillion

[eerieechos]

She literally invented feminism

#luthien tinuviel #I’ve been meaning to draw lulu for a while now lol #the silmarillion #the lay of luthien #Tolkien #jrr tolkien #beren and luthien #Lúthien Tinúviel #elves #sindar elves #Moriquendi elves #art #my art #drawing #sketch #portrait #fanart #traditonal art #Luthien

[aipilosse]

🔥PENGOLODH

thaaaaaank you!!!! I have so many unpopular Pengolodh opinions!

A lot of the hate he gets centers around the idea that he 'wrote' the Silmarillion. So, I guess first to address that, that's not really accurate. Yes, there are HoME drafts where Pengolodh and Rumil are the authors of the annals with Pengolodh the author of all the Beleriand events, but there are drafts where the authors are unnamed 'loremasters' too. There's also the fact that, depending on the version, the Silmarillion is framed as having been transmitted through a number of parties: Aelfwine, the Numenoreans, Bilbo, Merry, and probably some others. There are also versions where there isn't any framing, including but not limited to the published Silm. So yes, thinking about the Silmarillion as recorded by historians is a great way to approach the stories, but thinking about the Silmarillion as a history with a single author with a singular viewpoint is a mistake.

OK with THAT all of the way, I do actually enjoy thinking about Pengolodh as having a hand in writing the Silmarillion and, unpopular opinion number 1, think he was uniquely situated to be an excellent compiler of the tales of the First Age due living in Sirion! He was from Gondolin, so he knew what had happened there unlike most people, and he was with Falathrim, Iathrim, probably Mithrim and Noldor from Nargothrond, and potentially even Feanorians after the Third Kinslaying, if any survived rebelling against Maedhros and Maglor. And that's just the elves, he would have had great access to all the surviving Edain, AND he speaks Khuzdul! He truly had the opportunity to hear the stories of the first age from greatest number of perspectives.

Second unpopular opinion, I think he liked Feanor. He chose to become a Lambengolmor despite being born in Beleriand after Feanor's death. I think he was actually a huge Feanor *fan* and admired him immensely, especially in the field of linguistics. Perhaps that's why he cut so much slack for Feanor's sons, despite having survived a massacre at their hands.

#pengolodh #reaaaaally telling how pengolodh gets bashed for being biased against feanorians and maeglin #when you could bash him for the horrible Calaquendi-Moriquendi hierarchy shit that is *definitely* his work

[chronomally]

"Then all the Elves of Beleriand were filled with wonder and with hope at the coming of their mighty kindred, who thus returned unlooked-for from the West in the very hour of their need, believing indeed at first that they came as emissaries of the Valar to deliver them." Imagine thinking salvation has come to your doorstep and instead it's Fëanor and the bullshit of the House of Finwë

#please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading The Silmarillion #Obv I think the Noldor are fascinating because they actually have shit going on compared to like. the Vanyar lol #but um I think we can agree the slaughter at Alqualondë and the burning of the ships at Losgar were bullshit #and I think the Moriquendi would not have been as welcoming if they'd known the exact circumstances of their reunion with the Noldor lol

[deadqueernoldor]

Because I love putting in my 2 cents without being asked: my hc heights for the fëanorians (tallest to shortest)

Maedhros: 8'3" (and ½. Ever time he's next to Maglor he points out the ½ to irritate him further.)

Fëanor: 7'9"

Amras: 7'9" (has very curly hair but usually wears it in braids so it doesnt add any height)

Caranthir: 7'9"

Celebrimbor: 7'9" ties with Caranthir

Amrod: 7'8" but like the tiniest bit taller than Celegorm. (He also has very curly hair like Amras and often wears it loosely or open, though, so to others it seems they are the same height)

Celegorm: 7'8"

Curufin: 7'7" (will forever gloat that he is not the shortest, even if the difference is only two inches to Maglor)

Maglor: 7'5" (absolutely hates being the shortest brother, especially when standing next to maedhros. My short Maglor agenda will never rest!)

(Ranyatinwë: 7'3" she comes after Nerdanel who I hc as 7'3" too)

#for reference i also hc elrond as 7'1 and ecthelion as 7'7 #elrond is a tall boi for the moriquendi bc weird maia genes #celebrian is 6'10 bc she has two tall parents hehe #i just like creepily tall elves ok? they deserve that. as a treat #mostly a shitpost but not quite #tolkien

[serregon]

a bit gross how trop is making all the high elves white and the only elf of color is one of the “dark elves”

#tw: the rings of power #arondir seems pretty cool and I’m glad we have him #but can we please get at least one (1) noldo of color #I have beef with tolkien himself in the way that he wrote the calaquendi elves as being Better than the moriquendi elves #and amazon just made it ten times worse

[celebregol]

right so i’m reading the book of lost tales part one, and “melko” literally goes ahead and steals a herd of orome’s black horses. and that just puts me into mind of the black horses being taken in lotr. my first response is, of course, “damn, look at that commitment to the aesthetic,” but why settle for that when you can go further?

of course the general disclaimer of “it’s ultimately not productive to look for in-universe explanations of the author’s prejudices” applies, especially in this case of discussing “darkness” since most aspects of it are racially coded. but if you are to look for an in-universe explanation, it does make at least a bit of sense as to why there might be this “commitment to the aesthetic.”

melkor hates the elves. he sowed division within the eldar. before the coming to valinor happened, he messed with the first elves to have them think that all valar were essentially evil/monsters. so what do you do when you want to further cause chaos but you can’t really spread lies to more elves since no one’s listening to you? move to the elves that are currently in middle earth.

from the side of the noldor, if you consider the association if dark elves with the dark lord who literally has dark colored horses, then in addition to that existing prejudice they have against the moriquendi, there is that added automatic association with melkor that will make some relations a lot more difficult. when you look at the moriquendi, especially the avari, of course they’d be wary of the noldor, even if in the beginning, they’re glad the noldor are here to help in the fight against morgoth. because ultimately, the noldor came from valinor and especially the avari still likely have horror stories of morgoth and “orome.” and this is heightened in the case of the book of lost tales, since morgoth took the horses of a valar and rides them. what melkor does is take what were once maia of other valar and corrupts them. and then those beings do great harm. of course the moriquendi would be downright cautious if not a bit hostile toward the noldor even without the revelation of the kinslaying. just as feanor decried the valar of being of the same kind as melkor, the calaquendi are very closely tied to valinor and the valar and there are very few positive associations many moriquendi have with valar.

so from the start, relations between elves would be strained, but the noldor’s own actions (kinslaying, colonization, general prejudice) as well as melkor’s continued assault against everyone would just make matters worse. so good job, ig, melkor. you really messed everything up.

#the book of lost tales #silmarillion #elves #melkor #this is first and foremost a moriquendi (esp avari) defense team #but yeah i do want to reiterate that most of this was likely not intentional at all by tolkien #perhaps if he lived longer and ironed out these stories more he might have fixed some instances of prejudice but the general themes of #colonization; racism; etc. would still exist. i mean even in his published during his life works you see the issues #but still i like to analyze stuff intently so woo hoo psychology #c.posts

[cosmic-walkers]

funny thing about my re-written gondolin au is that each cousin wants what the other has. idril wants to be her own knight in shining armor, she wants to fight, she wants her father to not see her as a helpless girl who must be guarded, or for her life to resort around being a wife and a mother. idril also has gender envy tm and sometimes wants to be perceived as something other than a woman. and maeglin wants to settle down, he wants to marry the tall blond prince. he wants to be seen as desirable. and even if he can fight and defend himself extremely well,  he wants to be saved and not be seen as a threat to people. Since for a while they cannot talk to anyone about it and their desires, they talk to one another. 

#did i say this at a point? #but trans masc idril is real - it's just before she knew #and also #in the specific vanyar- noldor customs her family follows #they are very cisheternormative #in a strange way maeg introduces some forms of OPEN queerness to gondolin #tho he is kept to himeslf #also idril very much does love tuor and earendil #but then again like she still deals with gender and sexuality #i have a whole story / au of her falling in love with a silvan elf woman before gondolin #but she ends up pushing away those feelings #and the resurface in gondolin #and lemme explain i don't think that like the noldor or vanyar of high elves are like staunch christians #i DO think however that some families and kingdoms chose to follow stricter rules #like i think that maybe finwe himself was rather heteronormative #but like miriel's customs and traditions were not #because i don't actually think she is noldor herself in a sense #but that said the line of feanor was a lot less orthodox than most noldor #and moriquendi elves and silvan elves and shit #have queerness really implemented in their specific cultures #sindar not so much #not until they start mixing with silvan and moriquendi #also turgon himself is not homophobic or whatever #it's just customs that were passed on thru his wife which was vanyar #and he tried to stay true to her culture when he made gondolin #he is actually very accepting in ways he can be

[echo-bleu]

shine still brighter (1/?)

On AO3. Deaf!Artanis bullet-point fic.

Here is yet another fic that I started thinking it would be 2k tops (I have almost 5k and haven't even started the main plot). It started as a mix of this art prompt I did, and a post I can't find now that went something like "it's a good thing that Galadriel hated Fëanor's gut, because if they had pooled resources they would totally have taken over the world." And I wanted to write Fëanor being a passionate linguist. The AO3 link has a Quenya name primer if you're confused.

(cw for mentions of difficult birth and post-partum, and mentions of ableism)

Artanis is born in pain and fear.

Her spirit is nearly as bright as Fëanáro’s. She’ll grow as strong and smart and stubborn as her half-uncle, but her birth also takes almost as much of her mother’s vital energy.

Eärwen doesn’t die. But she doesn’t recover very well, either. She’s very, very tired, too tired to really connect to her daughter for a long while.

Everyone is comparing it to Míriel and Fëanáro, and nobody is happy about that, Fëanáro least of all. Eärwen isn’t anything like Míriel. She shouldn’t get to have the spotlight like that.

Finwë is understandably focused on taking care of his youngest son and granddaughter for a while, which just makes it worse.

Arafinwë is very scared for Eärwen and overprotective of Artanis. Her brothers are already enamoured of her but also a little traumatized by the whole thing.

The baby is very cute and very awake, grabbing everything within reach in her tiny hands and pulling. Especially if it’s bright or moving.

Because of all the complications and worry over Eärwen, no one realizes that there’s something distinctly different about her.

Finwë is the one who sees it first.

Mostly because everyone else is dazzled by the strength of her fëa, but Finwë raised Fëanáro and he knows how to look past that.

Artanis has many of the same traits as Fëanáro that everyone worried about when he was a baby: she won’t look people in the eye, she sometimes screams when they pick her up, and sometimes screams even louder when they put her down (and her screams are the loudest since Makalaurë). She’s extremely picky about eating, and it doesn’t help that her mother doesn’t have the energy to feed her.

Those are all fine, Finwë knows how to handle that. Half of Fëanáro’s sons were and are like that too, and his other granddaughter.

No, the thing he notices is that singing entirely fails at settling her.

Fëanáro had a hard time falling asleep, but he would always settle with his favourite lullabies.

Artanis doesn’t even seem to hear them.

Actually, Artanis doesn’t seem to hear. Anything.

By that point she’s old enough that she should be starting to speak, but the only sounds she produces are wordless screams and laughter.

No music at all. Even the most tone-deaf of elflings know how to carry a tune before they learn how to speak.

Deafness is pretty much unheard of for the Calaquendi. There are some hard-of-hearing elves, but they mostly get on fine with speaking louder.

(The Moriquendi have Deaf elves. There have always been Deaf elves, but there’s something about Valinor’s perfection… Well, it’s partly that there haven’t been that many births in Valinor yet, and most of the disabled elves didn’t make it to Valinor for various reasons, from dying on the way to being scared that they weren’t welcome (the Valar were maybe not as clear as they should have been and some things got lost in translation). And some of that misunderstanding carried over into elves taking babies who are a little too different in Lórien to be “healed”. They’re never heard of again. So the number of visibly disabled elves in Tirion is very small.)

(Estë and Irmo take great care of the disabled elves and they find their own community together, but they don’t quite understand why the Calaquendi just leave babies on their doorstep. Some of them need medical care, yes, but many don’t.)

(Fëanáro would probably have ended up in Lórien if he hadn’t been the Crown Prince. And he knows it. The one time someone suggested that some of his sons might benefit from Estë’s help, he threw a fit so violent that no one ever spoke of it again.)

Survivor’s bias (the elves who made it through the Great Journey were the strongest one, and thus we, as a people, are strong and cannot be anything else) led to a good deal of ableism. Finwë has rather vague memories of disabled elves he knew growing up, but mostly as “they weren’t strong enough to make it”.

He’s already certain that Artanis, like Fëanáro, is absolutely strong enough to make it through anything. Also Míriel’s death after she made it with him through the Great Journey rather skewed his own perspective on that.

All this to say that he has some cognitive dissonance there, but his reaction to discovering Artanis’s deafness is more of less the same as his reaction to Fëanáro’s autism:

“Hey, Arafinwë, so your daughter can’t hear, but the good news is that she’s really smart and strong and also a princess, so all we have to do is teach her to be great at everything so people won’t notice.”

Arafinwë, blinking: “What.”

He’s not at all sure about this, but he’s also very much in over his head wrangling four kids on his own and caring for his ailing wife (Maitimo babysits when he can, and Findaráto is old enough to take care of himself most of the time, but it’s still a lot).

He agrees wholeheartedly that he won’t take his daughter to Lórien, because he’s very much not over being terrified of having to visit his wife’s body there and he’s not losing his daughter.

But it’s also a lot to take in and he doesn’t know what the right decision is for Artanis.

He’s also not entirely certain that trusting his father with it is the best idea.

Eärwen is not really well enough to help, and Olwë is definitely not helping by making remarks about Artanis’s strangeness every time he sees her, and maybe it would do her good to seek out help, and also Arafinwë should move their whole family to Alqualondë, can’t you see how much good it would do to Eärwen?

Ñolofinwë has enough work trying to wrangle his absolute terror of a daughter, who is barely more than a toddler and has taken a liking to Tyelkormo of all people.

Fëanáro won’t talk to him. Not that Arafinwë values his opinion. He’s not Ñolo, forever chasing after their half-brother who hates them. He’s not.

Findis thinks he should take Artanis straight to Lórien because a baby taking so much energy from its mother is not natural, and just look at how Fëanáro turned out, is that what you want your daughter to be like? (Arafinwë thinks that it’s unfair. Fëanáro’s a little intense, sure, and his dislike is hard to bear, but he’s not that bad.)

Lalwen really hates babies.

He is not close to his sisters-in-law.

As the youngest son of the King, he doesn’t really have close friends.

Maitimo is incredibly good with Artanis, but he’s barely an adult, he definitely can’t help with this.

Findaráto unconditionally adores his sister and is very distressed about it all.

“But Atar, why does it matter if she can’t hear? She’s perfect as she is!”

“How are we going to communicate with her, though?”

Findaráto takes his hand and leads him to little Artanis, who is playing with blocks on the floor.

“Hey,” he tells her, sitting down across from her. “Are you hungry?” Saying that, he pats his belly, and then mimics eating with his fingers.

Artanis claps her hands and nods, squealing. She puts her fingers in her mouth, twice, and then holds up her arms to be picked up.

“See?” Findaráto says, turning back to his father. “It’s easy.”

These words stay with Arafinwë. Artanis doesn’t go to Lórien, Eärwen recovers little by little, and it is, indeed, easy enough to find out when Artanis is hungry or sleepy or wants something with simple signs.

Osanwë with little children doesn’t really work past sharing basic emotions, it’s not really communicative.

Finwë valiantly tries to get her to speak. Arafinwë isn’t actually sure if she can’t or if she just won’t.

He feels like trying to speak when you can’t hear yourself, and you don’t even know what words sound like, is probably very hard work. Playing with blocks in understandably a lot more fun.

Findaráto is Artanis’s favourite person by far, and they’ve become good at communicating without words, though no one else can understand them when they do. They’re using a mix of basic hand signs and facial expressions. She follows him everywhere, and he lets her ride on his back when she’s tired.

Maitimo, who has five brothers and a father who regularly have silent days (Makalaurë has never had a silent day in his life), is also very good at figuring out what she wants and needs, though they don’t really communicate beyond that.

But Artanis is growing up, and increasingly frustrated at not being able to communicate her thoughts. Her system with Findaráto is good for simple things, but she’s having complex thoughts now.

She’s also old enough to know that she’s different, and to know that everyone else is talking over her.

She’s not going to take that affront lying down.

She turns into a terror.

Not an Írissë-style terror, running away and climbing trees and biting people. No, she’s an Artanis terror. A very focused terror.

She rejects anybody who doesn’t understand her. And since she has no real mean of expressing herself in an understandable way, that’s everybody.

She’s figured out that screaming very loudly in someone’s ear is a good way of getting them to go away.

The Arafinwëans start wearing earplugs while at home.

It gives them a new appreciation of Artanis’s plight, when they try to speak to each other over her screams and can’t understand anything, but it’s also very tiring.

Artanis, in her child’s logic, rejects Findaráto the strongest. Because he’s the one who makes the most effort and he still can’t solve this for her and it’s so unfair.

Findaráto takes it very hard and is depressed for two years straight. He’s been so focused on Artanis that he never really reckoned with the trauma of his mother almost dying and his sister nearly being given to Estë, so it suddenly hits him and now Arafinwë has two children to worry about.

Angaráto and Aikanáro take to spending a strange amount of time with Carnistir and Arafinwë doesn’t like much the sounds of Maitimo’s reports on his sons’ behaviour. But he doesn’t really have the bandwidth to deal with it.

Eventually Arafinwë has had enough. Everyone is trying to give him advice and absolutely none of it is useful. People in Tirion are whispering about Artanis’s behaviour, and what it says about her parents.

(Fëanáro, for all his intensity, was actually a very quiet child, and his eccentricities were dismissed as a result of his motherlessness. Finwë’s capabilities were never put to doubt.)

He only wants the best for Artanis, it’s just that he can’t figure out what that is. His daughter is hurting and it tears him apart.

(Eärwen agrees with him, but she’s gone to stay at her parents’ for a while because all the screaming and stress were making her relapse.)

What he knows is that a) the problem is mostly communication and b) what has worked the best so far was Findaráto using gestures.

What they need is some way to make the gestures more complex.

They need a language made out of gestures.

Who do we know who’s into linguistics and invented their entire writing system?

Arafinwë takes his courage in both hands, fully anticipating a disaster, and goes to talk to Fëanáro.

“You want me to invent an entire language of gestures for your daughter,” Fëanáro blinks.

“Yes. And then I want you to teach it to me.”

“...do you have any idea how much work that would be?”

“Probably not, but I know you’re the only one who can do it.”

He expects Fëanáro to say he’s too busy to do anything for people who aren’t even really his family, or to go on a rant about Arafinwë’s thoughtlessness or his entitlement or something.

Instead, all he says is, “Come back in three weeks. And bring her along.”

Stay tuned for part 2!

All of my Disabled Tolkien Characters posts.

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unpopular opinion, but if Celegorm can be forgiven and given nuance and fandom redemption arcs, than so can Eol.

Like they did very similar things. But Celegorm is very, very forgiven fandom wise while Eol is not. And I'm always more inclined to feel bad for Eol and grant him more nuance (in this situation), than I am Celegorm.

And i'm not saying any of them need to be forgiven or given nuance, at all. But imo, if it should be anyone, it should be Eol.

The "thrall" and Kinsman of Thingol who had his lands stolen by the Noldor, and who actively hates on those who he believed colonized his lands resonates more with me than Celegorm, who grew up in privilege, lost it due to his own choices, and continued to never really learn from his mistakes.

Not saying Eol did either. But I feel like he deserves as much, if not more nuance than Celegorm for those of us who give nuance out.

And yes, you can hate on him for what he did to Aredhel and Maeglin(like absolutely do that), and choose not grant that nuance. But Celegorm did worse with Luthien, and would have forced himself on her if he had not been stopped, and abandoned Elured and Elurin to their deaths. And was directly/indirectly (??) responsible for Finrod's death?

But he's liked, a fandom favorite. He's an attempted rapist lol. Why is this overlooked.

Just things I things i think about. I know there's existing conversations about this, but I wanted to give my two cents!

#eol #celegorm #eol moriquendi #the silmarillion

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freaks me out that people call celeborn teleporno for many reasons

It sounds stupid

there’s linguistic inconsistencies with ‘silver’ as ‘telep’ in quenya and as ‘telpe’ (ex. tyelkormo, tyelperinquar, telperion)

he’s Moriquendi so he has no quenyan name

Did I mention it sounds stupid

#This may be the third imaginary-linguistics related post I’ve made in as many minutes #Sorry; I have no principles #But this stuff interests me and I like using my feeble powers of deductive reasoning to annoy intelligent tumblr users #Intelligent tumblr users? Hm #But anyway #silm #the silm #the silmarillion #Silmarillion #tolkien #jrr tolkien #tolkien lore #lotr #celeborn #teleporno #I can’t believe I just tagged that #The silm fandom #silm fandom