#peredhil

[tanoraqui]

Theory: Elrond effectively wears headlamps like a Dad(TM)

Proof:

Elrond, at least on semi-formal occasions, wears “a star upon his forehead” (RotK book 6, ch.9)—that is, presumably, a pale glowing gem on some sort of coronet. This comes across as very classically Elvish (light, jewelry, star imagery), and a nigh-explicit reference to his father Eärendil. However…

Elrond’s children don’t see as well as Elves, as cited here. If his children don’t, then Elrond, even less Elvish by blood, certainly doesn’t. Now, I will admit that I forget if “Elves can see in the dark” is canon or very popular, D&D-enabled fanon, but it certainly makes sense considering that Elves flourished for centuries or millennia under just starlight, before daylight even existed…and it’s equally reasonable to assume that half-elven night vision is as relatively “weak” as their cited distance vision.

Elrond is the proud father of three, and exhibits traditional Dadly behaviors such as being a little bit of a nerd (loremaster) but also one of the most reliable guys you know, adopting any child left in his presence for a sufficient amount of time (Aragorn), and telling his daughter’s aspiring bf that he won’t be good enough for her until he has a steady job (also Aragorn).

My dad irl, who I promise is a pretty typical Dad, was positively delighted when he discovered casual-use head-mounted flashlights about a decade ago, and has self-satisfiedly worn them on every camping trip and nighttime dog walk ever since.

CONCLUSION: Elrond regularly wears glowing, star-evocative gems on his brow, especially while traveling or at fancy evening parties, and he looks great and it make people respectfully murmur Eärendilion (whether he likes it or not)… But really, it’s not a fashion statement or implicit political position or whatever; it’s because if he doesn’t have some sort of flashlight, he will trip on torchlit steps or walk into low-hanging tree branches in the dark. And it’s so much easier if it’s hands-free! (Especially when he’s spelunking for lost texts!)

His kids all go through a phase of thinking he’s mortifyingly dorky about this, then begrudgingly come to accept that it is really convenient to have a hands-free light for dark nights, caves, etc, and start wearing one themselves.

#lotr #lord of the rings #the silmarillion #elrond #elrond peredhel #elrond half elven #peredhil #theories #headcanon accepted

[camille-lachenille]

I was thinking about how, in fanfictions and in the fandom in general, Elrond is often depicted as a pure Noldorin lord, if not a die hard Fëanorian. And while I do enjoy Fëanorian!Elrond, the more I think about it the more I am convinced Elrond is not the fëanorian one of the twins. Elros is. Elros who adopted seven eight pointed stars as the heraldic device of his whole dynasty, a symbol still used 6000 years after his death. Elros who had Quenya be the official language of Númenor. Elros who decided to leave Arda for an unknown fate after his death; not Everlasting Darkness but not the rebirth in the bliss of Valinor either. He choose to go to a place Elves aren’t supposed to go, just like Fëanor and his sons went back to Beleriand. Elros, the mortal man, who decided to forge his own path in the world.

And I am not saying Elrond didn’t, because Eru knows how much strength, patience and stubbornness Elrond must have to become who he is in LotR. But when I first re-read LotR after reading the Silm, he did not strike me as Fëanorian at all (except for the no oath swearing rule that seems to apply in Rvendell). In fact, Elrond, and all three of his children, are defined by being half-Elven. Elrond is so much at the same time they had to creat a whole new category for him. He is described as kind as summer in The Hobbit, but also old and wise, and his friendly banter with Bilbo in FotR show he is also merry and full of humour. Elrond is both Elf and Man despite his immortality, and this is made quite clear in the text.

But. If I had to link him to an Elven clan, I’d say Elrond is more Sinda than Noldor, and even that is up to debate. Rivendell, this enchanting valley hidden from evil thanks to his power, is like a kinder version of Doriath. Yet, the name of Last Homely House and Elrond’s boundless hospitality make me think of Sirion: Rivendell is a place where lost souls can find s home, where multiple cultures live along each other in friendship and peace.

In FotR, Elrond introduces himself as the son of Eärendil and Elwing, claiming both his lineages instead of giving only his father’s name as is tradition amongst the Elves. It may be a political move, or it may be a genuine wish to claim his duality, his otherness, or even both at the same time. But from what is shown of Elrond in LotR, he seems to lean heavily in the symbols and heritage from the Sindar side of his family, rather than the Noldor one. I already gave the comparison with Doriath, but it seems history repeats itself as Arwen, said to be Lúthien reborn, chooses a mortal life. Yet Elrond doesn’t make the same mistake as Thingol by locking his daughter in a tower and sending her suitor to a deathly quest. Yes, he asks Aragorn to first reclaim the throne of Gondor before marrying Arwen, but this isn’t a whim on his part or an impossible challenge. Aragorn becoming king means that Middle-Earth is free from the shadow if Sauron and Arwen will live in peace and happiness. Which sounds like a reasonable wish for a parent to me.

Anyways, I went on a tangent, what strikes me with Elrond is his multiple identity. Elrond certainly has habits or traits coming from his upbringing amongst the Fëanorians, and he loved Maglor despite everything. The fact he is a skilled Minstrel shows he did learn and cultivate skills taught by a Fëanorion, that he is not rejecting them. There is a passage at the end of RotK, in the Grey Havens chapter, where Elrond is described carrying a silver harp. Is this a last relic from Maglor? Possible.

But while Elros choose the path of mortality and showed clear Noldorin influences in the kingdom he built, Elrond is happy in his undefined zone he lives in. He is an Elf, he is a Man, he is Sinda and Noldo and heir to half a dozen lost cultures and two crowns. He is the warrior and the healer, the only one of his kind in Middle-Earth. And that is why I will never tire of this character and I love so much fanworks depicting him as nuanced and multiple yet always recognisable as Elrond.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #the lord of the rings #peredhil #half elves #elros #elrond and elros #elrond #elrond peredhel #one blorbo to blorb them all #half baked ramblings by a sleep deprived tolkien fan #tolkien meta

[anghraine]

It's always weird when (some) people talk about the choice of the half-Elven as if they evolve like Pokémon upon choosing their ultimate fates.

Elros didn't become exclusively human. He chose to retain the gift of Men and to be counted among Men as far as that ultimate fate went, but he remained a half-Elf. He didn't gain a beard (even descendants as remote as Aragorn, Boromir, and Faramir can't because of Elros) or most Mannish qualities he didn't already possess and he lived half a millennium.

Elrond chose to be counted among Elves in terms of immortality, but he isn't exclusively an Elf. He's described as both Elf and Man, and as the eldest of Aragorn's people. Elrond's marriage to a full Elf produces peredhel children. Two of them are given names signifying Elf+(human)Man, names which Tolkien translated as "Elf-knight" (in Númenórean Sindarin) and "Elf-Númenórean." Elrond's sons are always distinguished from Elves in LOTR.

Arwen doesn't morph into a human woman when she swears her vows with Aragorn; she still looks like f!Elrond and ageless years afterwards, and she would be very long-lived even if you only counted her married life. She is probably the most emphatically Elvish of any peredhel, but she's still a peredhel. Elwing and Eärendil are, too. Peredhil are peredhil are peredhil.

#elrond is not (exclusively) an elf 2k23 #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #elros tar minyatur #elrond #elladan #elrohir #arwen undómiel #peredhil #anghraine rants

[wanderer-clarisse]

"Oh, good morning, Elwing."

Eärendil (and Elwing) for @nolofinweanweek! I really wanted to participate in the prompts, and when I saw Eärendil I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to draw him. I've always loved the imagery of Elwing flying out to meet Eärendil as he returns, so here's my take on what that might look like :)

#nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #my design for this guy changes every other month (as it does for most silm characters each time I reread it!) #but it's fun to explore #and try new designs #peredhil #earendil #elwing #tolkien art #procreate #the silmarillion

[aotearoa20]

Maglor: Boys...

Elrond: Oh no, 'boys' in b-flat.

Elros: He’s disappointed.

#elrond and elros #peredhil #maglor #kidnap fam #love grew between them #eventually #incorrect silmarillion quotes #silmarillion #tolkien

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

with my whole heart i truly think elwing/eärendil is the most sweepingly romantic ship in the legendarium. like. what if we were the only two people like us ever in the whole world yet by fate and chance and tragedy we found each other. what if we built a home and a life at the ends of the earth and against all odds it was good. what if we knew no help was coming. what if we chose to live anyway. what if i flew through the storm to find you. what if i knew you and held you even in another shape. what if you told me not to follow and i did. what if i let you make the choice for us both. what if you gave up even the touch of the world you loved so we could stay together. what if we saved that world but not for us. what if our love--for each other, for the world--was so strong that it rent the fabric of the universe. what then.

#do not text!! i am thinking about Them. #i have such a weak spot for couples who jam sticks in the wheel of time for each other. hashem yishmor. #the professor’s world #brought to you by me #every day i wake up + i get on my little soapbox #the silmarillion #elwing #eärendil #elwing/eärendil #peredhil

[swanmaids]

Later, Elwing would say that they fell in love at the height of summer.

Every year, the Havens of Sirion were hot in a way that even the warmest days in mountain-shielded Gondolin or cavernous Menegroth could never compare to. Proud Arien spread her rays all across the sky and turned the city sticky-hot; people went about their days with damp towels around their shoulders and fanned themselves with devices made of reeds and feathers.

The only relief could be found in the sea. Each day at high noon that summer, Elwing could almost feel the same longing for Ulmo’s waters that followed Eärendil all his life. And at the same time, Eärendil’s own desire to roam, to chase the horizon in search of hope for a better dawn, seemed dampened, and he fell into the same hazy lethargy as the rest of the Havens.

They met in the middle. Casting off their shoes along with their responsibilities, they waded into the waters together, dressed only in their smallclothes and each pretending that they were not looking at the other. They splashed and leapt and played at trying to trip one another in the shallows; and just for an hour or so, they might have been any two people quietly in love in the world. 

Afterwards, Eärendil’s hands were gentle as they combed through her salt-stiff hair and held a milk-soaked rag against her sunburned neck. Elwing felt warm all over, but this time it had nothing to do with the weather.

#my post #my fic #Elwing #Earendil #peredhil #feb ficlet challenge

[aragornsrockcollection]

What do you think Sauron’s opinion of Elrond was?

There’s a line in Two Towers (I think) I was going to look up to answer this, except I got lazy, where Gollum says Sauron hates something and Frodo responds like “What doesn’t he hate?”

So I’m going to go out on a limb and say Sauron hates Elrond.

But to actually contribute something not obvious to the conversation, I think of all his biggest adversaries, he is most likely to underestimate Elrond.

Elrond’s influence is huge but we only see him give his advice to those who came to him voluntarily, he hides away but not so well he can’t be found in need. He’s a healer, not a warrior or a king, and he doesn’t have the ambition Galadriel has.

Heir of Luthien? Hate that. Uses his power to influence events mainly by being a well of knowledge and a safe place to weather storms? Sauron doesn’t understand that.

Elrond ultimately defeats Sauron by raising children with love, helping those in need, not seeking power and giving solid advice. He puts together the fellowship, but doesn’t even put his name on it, he helps everyone there see what has to be done by letting them suggest options and showing them how those ideas are infeasible, and making sure everyone has the whole story. He takes advice as well, he sends Pippin instead of Glorfindel at Gandalf’s suggestion. He gently refuses to let the fellowship swear an oath.

One of my favorite moments from the council of Elrond is when they’re like “Who will do this task” and Elrond goes quiet. It is NOT because he doesn’t know who would be best for it. But he knows Frodo has to choose on his own, he cannot force him, or what little hope they have will be gone. The MOMENT Frodo says he’ll do it, Elrond says he is the only person who can, but he doesn’t lay that on him until he is committed.

If everyone had rolled up to Rivendell and Elrond had just said “you nine go drop the ring in Mt doom” and sent the same exact people? The fellowship would have failed, because the understanding wouldn’t have been there. Elrond handled that council to perfection, and that is the kind of passive power based in understanding that is sooooo vital to the downfall of Sauron, but which Sauron does not value or comprehend.

The people that scare Sauron are people who want the ring. He is 100% confident that without the power of the ring, he cannot be beaten, and the fact that middle earth would fall to darkness even if Galadriel or Gandalf took it is pretty weak recompense for him if he is defeated.

Elrond never even entertains the idea that he would take the ring (at least in our view). Every bearer of an Elven Ring (and Aragorn) is offered it. Gandalf first when Frodo first learns what it is, and he tells us what he would do with it and why it would be a bad idea. Galadriel most famously, and she had literally dreaded the idea of the ring coming through Lothlorien because she knew she wanted it, and famously refusing it was a trial for her.

There is no moment when Elrond is DIRECTLY offered the Ring by Frodo. But the entire first half of the book the goal is “get the Ring to Rivendell” where Elrond will know what to do with it, and it will be safe. In the beginning the hobbits have no concept of going further than that- so basically the idea is “put the Ring in Elrond’s power” for the first half of the book.

And Frodo arrives half dead to Rivendell, completely alone and vulnerable, and Elrond heals him, and never is there even discussion of whether Elrond could have taken it from him then, or if he was tempted to. The only thing Elrond says on the topic of the Ring being given to him is that Rivendell cannot keep it safe from the Enemy.

Taking the Ring to Minas Tirith clearly the equivalent of giving the Ring to Denethor. Galadriel clearly fears that the Ring coming to Lothlorien will be her downfall because it will be in her power and she knows she wants it.

Elrond is never shown even considering taking it. The Ring staying in Rivendell would be bad according to him because they could not withstand Sauron’s full force bent towards extracting it. Even in this scenario where the Ring remains in Rivendell, Elrond discounts a possibility that he would be tempted to use it to keep Sauron out.

Sauron is physically incapable of thinking of someone like that as a threat, it is his biggest weakness, and that’s why the plan Elrond facilitates is the one that ultimately takes him out.

#tolkien #jirt #lotr #silmarillion #silm #jrr tolkien #elrond #Peredhil #Elrond Peredhel #the lord of the rings #Sauron #Elrond doesn’t want to rule anything and Sauron is like ‘sooo… you’re weak then?’ #and Elrond is like ‘sure if you want to see it that way feel free’ #Elrond’s power manifests in ways Sauron does not get #he still hates him tho

[velvet4510]

I can’t get over how Eärendil wanted to be among Men, but chose to live forever as an Elf for no other reason than his wife’s sake. Elwing had lost everything: her parents, her brothers, and presumably their sons. Eärendil didn’t want to put her through another heartbreak if there was a way he could prevent it. Everyone else she ever loved was taken away from her, but he made sure to permanently stay with her and keep her from being alone. This is why it’s important to remember that he doesn’t always sail the skies, as some mistakenly believe; Tolkien confirmed that Eärendil often returns to Valinor to see Elwing. Because why wouldn’t he? Not only are they in love and married, but he made his choice of immortality for her, so that he wouldn’t join the all-too-large number of people she has lost. He put her needs before his own. That’s love.

#earendil x elwing #half elves #peredhil #half elf #earendil #elwing #tolkien couples #tolkien legendarium #the silmarillion #lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #dior eluchil #nimloth #elured and elurin #elrond #elros #valinor #first age

[koyunsoncizeri]

Dad!Mae and him kidnap sons 😭🥹❤️

@arofili wrote them the softest fic 😭🥹❤️!!! Cant wait all of you to read it!! 🥹

#silmarillion #the silmarillion #maedhros #jrr tolkien #maitimo #feanorians #sons of feanor #maedhros the tall #elrond #elros #peredhil #kidnap fam #kidnap dads

[runawaymun]

a younger Elrond and Elros for @nolofinweanweek - Day 5!

With regards to their Choice, I have always kinda viewed it as they both just...knew, from a very young age, which side they would wind up abiding with. Elros has always leaned Mannish, and Elrond has always leaned Elvish. They both have the gift of foresight, so it just makes sense that they would be attuned to how their own fates would end up.

So, there was sadness when the Choice had to be definitively made, but they were more or less resigned. They always knew that they were doomed to be parted from each other, and imo that's deliciously sad, and it didn't make the eventual parting any easier. It just wasn't a shock.

#i have one more piece to follow for now! #but i'm working the whole weekend so i don't think i'll have time for anything else #nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #elrond #elros #peredhil #my art

[tanoraqui]

Tolkien literally said that the embodiment of hope in Middle Earth, the single guy who personally sails, wears, and for all intents and purposes is the Star of Hope in the night sky, was tired of all the struggles of this world and wanted to see what the next would offer…but he stayed for love of his wife. And he sails home to her every morning and she flies up to meet him.

And then people expect me to be normal about Eärendil and Elwing??

#earendil #elwing #the silmarillion #peredhil #OTP

[raointean]

Lúthien comes of age in safety and love. Her father rules in kindness and her mother shields the land from evil.

Dior comes of age in a time of unease. His father is strong and brave, his mother wise and bold, but the Fëanorians are a threat that ever hangs over his head.

Elwing comes of age in Valinor with her husband by her side and a trail of loss and woe behind them. Her sons are taken and her people are dead. The weight of responsibility is nearly enough to crush her.

Eluréd and Elurín do not come of age, they never had the chance.

Elrond and Elros come of age in a war zone. There is death and screaming, blood spills as often as rain. They have no parents, only each other. The world has never been safe for them. They know it never will be.

Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen come of age in safety and love. Their mother is kind and wise, their father shields the land from evil.

#silmarillion #peredhil #eldritch peredhil #elrond peredhel #lúthien #melian the maia #elu thingol #beren #dior eluchil #elwing #elured #elurin #elros #eärendil #elladan #elrohir #arwen undomiel #generational trauma #hc that peredhil come of age at 40 #elwing and eärendil were 35 when the third kinslaying happened #dior is an exception #he's only a quarter elvish so he ages faster

[wanderer-clarisse]

... for the sorrow and the strife in the house of Finwë is graven in the memory of the Noldorin Elves. (The Silmarillion)

#took me a solid FOURTEEN HOURS to finish #and i am very glad it's done #based this entirely on the silmarillion #gil-galad is son of orodreth purely out of personal preference #but because everything else is based on the silm i felt guilty about it and added that footnote in the corner lol #but hoorey! it's done. it was fun character designing #up next: more ballet sketches #tolkien #the silmarillion #elves #so many elves #i'm not tagging all those characters individually #peredhil #house of finwe #feanorians #feanor #finarfin #fingolfin #the end.

[tathrin]

Wait wait wait. So Erestor is never actually granted any damn details in the published text of Lord of the Rings aside from being Elrond’s “chief counselor.” And in one draft he’s explicitly an elf, and in another he’s a peredhel “of Lúthien’s line” or whatever, and his name might possibly, if one uses some old and potentially defunct translations, mean something like Lonely Brother...

And no one has yet written a fic (that I’ve found so far at least) where he’s a child of Elros who pulled an Arwen and picked the different option from his dad? Where he’s the one of Elrond’s nephews who did not choose to die as one of the Secondborn and thus be forever sundered from him? Someone from Elrond’s family who chose to stay by him? Who also knows what it’s like to be forever separated by his mortal family? Who maybe had to watch his dad and granddad age and die, and all his siblings and their kids, before eventually seeking refuge from the grinding sorrow of mortality in Imladris with his uncle who also chose the long life and sorrow of the elves?

Nobody has done that yet?

(I don’t by any means think that the Choice remains an option all the way down Elros’s line of course, I think that Númenor is too important as a Kingdom Of Men—and a place where mortality, specifically ends up having Serious Importance To The Narrative—for the Gift of Men to be something that they have the option of refusing all the way down the generations, but I can definitely see having Elros’s kids or grandkids still being given the Choice of picking the Firstborn over the Secondborn, hypothetically.)

Or hey another thought: Maglor. Either in disguise or simply renamed in penance (or sorrow) because he’s the last brother left...

I just. I feel like we as a fandom are maybe sleeping on this one?

#erestor #maglor #elrond #peredhil #lotr meta #lotr drafts #doom of men #choice of luthien #lord of the rings #lotr #plot for sale i offer it to you freely

[windrelyn]

@secondageweek 2023 - Day 2: “Men”

#secondageweek #secondageweek2023 #elros #elros tar minyatur #elrond #lord of the rings #silmarillion #tolkien #elrond and elros #peredhil #middle earth #silm art #lotr art #my art