#reverse gondolin au

[sesamenom]

Reverse Gondolin AU Family Portrait - House of the Queen

#silm #silmarillion #reverse gondolin au #aredhel #lomion #turgon #turgon gets to be ar feinion this time! #and it even works out nicely bc he also wears all white in canon #though here he wears a bit more black but still close enough! #also aredhel is technically both the lord and lady of her House bc she founded it and is therefore the political ruler #but turgon ends up as a de facto lord i guess? he doesnt want an official title but aredhel also does not want to deal with politics #so most of her official duties are more of the ceremonial appearance kind #and then she's back off to shooting orcs #lomion manages the government while shes out #so by the time of her death he already has a lot of political experience

[thelien-art]

Ar-Pharazon as the Witch King in @sesamenom´s AU

- that I´m in love with

I just love this whole golden Nazgul thing! It drives me crazy - love where the AU started, feral for where it´s going🙃

If anything is wondering what AU it is it´s the Reverse Gondolin one that have so much worldbuilding already and everything is amazing in it!! You all need to check it out

I tried to go with your design of his armor and my own for his face but it seems I was carried a bit away with the armor...

#tolkien #silmarillion #lord of the rings #lotr #jrr tolkien #ar pharazon #tar calion #pharazon #witch king #witch king of numenor #love that #!!! #numenor #reverse gondolin au #tolkien art #silm art #digital art #my art #lotr art

[who-needs-words]

Wrote a ficlet for @sesamenom ’s reverse gondolin AU. Inspiration willing I plan to write more.

#eli writes #ar pharazôn #witch king of angmar #gandalf #pippin #lotr fanfic #lotr fic #technically also #silm fic #lotr #lord of the rings #Tolkien #the fall of numenor #reverse gondolin au

[redbean-nom]

Wait is 5s still alive in the oops it’s all boba au??

Hmm I haven't really considered it? I've mostly been sticking to whereabouts-unknown clones for the Bobas, though I did throw Fox in for variety. I think if Fives is alive he would be with Rex & Echo, so not with the Boba Crew, but his death seemed pretty final so I'm not sure.

Also, "oops it's all boba" is hilarious lol

#asks #sorry it took me a bit of time to get to this #i had a busy week and just now have time for asks #if you want to imagine fives as alive in the bobas au it also makes sense #i haven't really thought about this au as much (for the silm fandom double citizens i've been mostly working on #wrangling the timelines for the reverse gondolin au) #so yeah feel free to go with whatever you prefer

[welcomingdisaster]

for no reason, here is a list of aus that i constantly think about in my head and have written less than 1k words for. perhaps one day some of these will happen.

au where i have genderswapped every eldest son in the legendarium (feanor, maedhros, fingon, finrod, etc) and assumed that traditionally daughters can Not inherit titles under noldor law. woe complicated sibling dynamics be upon ye

au where fingon is captured during the nirn

role reversal au where (the majority of) the nolofinwions end up on the swan ships and (the majority of) the feanorians end up on the grinding ice.

urban fantasy au in which fingolfin runs a museum, maedhros gets accused of faking his own kidnapping, turgon kills someone in cold blood and buries him in gondolin retreat, hurin isn't paid well enough for this shit, and finrod does magic tricks

modern au where indis and miriel team up to investigate their mutual ex-husband's murder, university student feanor hacks the government, 13-year old fingolfin sneaks into places he's not supposed to be in, and 7-year-old finarfin mostly plays a lot of minecraft

au where every dead elf is eventually re-embodied as a baby so long as someone is willing to pick them up from the halls. woe reverse sibling orders be upon ye

#lena speaks #feel free to ask me about these i think about them a lot

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Silmarillion AU - Fingon Lives (Dark Fingon AU)

I’ve seen the idea of Fingon surviving the Nirnaeth (potentially along with Maedhros dying in it) and spent a bit of time considering what I thought the results of that might be.

And while I understand, on some level, the narrative-parallel appeal of a ‘reversed’ storyline where Fingon goes off the rails after losing Maedhros and joins up with the Fëanoreans for the Second Kinslaying, it doesn’t feel likely to me. I think he’d have quite different priorities.

If Maedhros dies in the Nirnaeth, Fingon is not going to blame Doriath, because it frankly takes a very tenuous and twisted chain of logic to get there, and there are much more obvious people for him to blame. First, Morgoth, who is not a viable target post-Nirnaeth. Second, and even more directly - the traitorous Easterlings, who, in a scenario where Maedhros died in the Nirnaeth, would probably have been the ones to kill him. Amd the Easterlings, now the occupiers of Fingon’s home territory of Hithlum and Dorthonion, are viable targets. So if Fingon is defeated, his army destroyed, and he goes (somewhat) off the rails, but he survives (possibly with a small number of others) and makes it back to Hithlum, the most likely putcome to me is him going ruthless-guerilla on the Easterlings who are occupying and oppressing his people and are responsible for the death of his closest friend. I can see scenarious where he gets something of a resistance movement going, and Túrin does not leave Hithlum and, once he hits his teens, joins up with them. That would be an interesting interaction, because Túrin’s canon interactions with elves are mostly with ones who have at least slightly more chill than he does, and that would not be the case here. I can see Tuor being part of it for a while before getting discomfited with hiw far the guerillas are willing to go (and how they’re not achieving much but revenge) and noping out of there and heading to Gondolin as in canon. That makes for an interesting AU in itself.

But that’s if you can come up with a plausible tactical mechanism that gets Fingon back to Hithlum. Because one of the reasons for the heroic last stand of the Men of the House of Hador, in addition to guarding Gondolin’s retreat, was because there was no way for them to get back to Hithlum, and they were not willing to be driven from their homes. So if Fingon survives, some of the Edain of Hithlum might as well. (You could even have a version where Húrin survives and isn’t captured and his family isn’t cursed, which is altogether more hopeful, not only because of the curse but because Húrin has a lot of good sense.)

The alternative, and tactically more plausible scenario, is one where Fingon survives the same way any other west-Beleriand forces who make it out of the Nirnaeth alive do - by retreating to Gondolin. And ironically, although that’s safer territory, I think it could end worse than the Hithlum option. Because Turgon post-Nirnaeth is 100% of the nobody-leaves-Gondolin mindset. During the retreat everyone is too exhausted abd demoralized to talk policy, but once they get there and Fingon learns via Thorondor that 1) his people are occupied by the Easterlings; 2) Maedhros has been betrayed and killed by the Easterlings; and 3) he’s never allowed to leave Gondolin to do anything about the first two items….he is not going to react well. In canon, some of the Noldor of Hithlum did join with the Gondolindrim and survive, so Fingon may still have a group that is loyal to him. It’s going to get messy.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #au #fingon #hurin #turin #turgon

[senalishia]

It's time!!! Check out this amazing fic we made for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang @tolkienrsb

Title: Sea-Heart by @senalishia

Full art here! by @oopsbirdficced

Art rating: G, Fic rating: E

Warnings: Canon-typical violence, explicit human-on-mermelf action

Relationships: Tuor/Voronwe, Tuor&Turin

Characters: Tuor, Voronwe, Turin

Word count: 33.4k

Summary: It's a Voronwe merfolk AU! The Falathrim of Cirdan were blessed by Ulmo to be able to change forms, equally at home on land or in the sea, and Voronwe inherited this gift from his mother. Unfortunately, this allowed him to tarry even longer after being shipwrecked before meeting Tuor in Vinyamar. This delay changes the course of their journey to Gondolin, allowing them to get to know each other better as well as bending their fate into the path of someone they might otherwise have missed...

Check it out now!

#silmarillion #tuor #voronwe #turin #trsb23 #fanfiction #writing

[thevalleyisjolly]

Crack AU concept: Every Second Age Finwëan apart from Galadriel doesn’t actually have the origin they’re commonly purported to have:

No one is sure of Gil-Galad’s parentage because he’s actually a highly competent Green-Elf who looked around at the general chaos and destruction near the end of the First Age, sighed, rolled up his sleeves, and decided that someone had to start taking responsibility for this shit.  Look, he never actually stated that he was anyone’s son, it’s just that people are more likely to listen to someone named “Scion of Kings” than they are to a random (if exceedingly capable) elf, and the assumptions kind of snowballed from there.  His favourite pastime is dropping contradictory hints about his parentage and watching the ensuing confusion.

The fact of the matter is, Celebrimbor is a popular name among Elves.  There was a Celebrimbor of Gondolin and a Celebrimbor of Doriath and even a Falmari Celebrimbor, formerly of Aman, who insists that he was the first Celebrimbor.  They also all happened to be very skilled craftspeople so maybe there’s something to the name after all.  So when a dark haired Elf with incredible skills in craft shows up in Lindon after the war calling himself Celebrimbor, son of Curufin, the only part that anyone bats an eye at is the “son of Curufin” part because who would knowingly associate themselves with the House of Fëanor in this day and age?  Surely nobody would lie about that, and if they wouldn’t lie about that, why would they lie about anything else?

When it comes down to it, nobody really understands what it means to be peredhel, and especially not when it comes to their lifespan and aging.  Furthermore, nobody really knows what happened to Elwing’s sons after the Third Kinslaying; everybody just assumed they were taken hostage and/or killed.  Therefore, when during the War of Wrath, a pair of grown, clearly half-elven twins with a strong resemblance to Lúthien wash up in Balar, everybody assumes (with more than a little wishful thinking) that they must be Elwing’s sons, miraculously spared by the Fëanorians.  As for the twins themselves, they feel more than a little guilty about assuming the identities of the nephews they never met, but they also figure that if they told the truth of their survival, they might be disbelieved or taken for spies of Morgoth, so they’ll go along with it for now and if their nephews do turn up, they’ll deal with it then?

(They did actually turn up a few decades into the Second Age, having been in the East where Maglor sent them before shit really started going down.  They’re honestly just delighted to have living family more or less on this side of the Sea, and agree that it’d be too much of a bother to reverse the identity confusion now.  One of them decides to go back east to the Greenwood where he’d made some good friends with the Silvan elves there, the other stays on with “Elrond” as a councillor and ambiguous “kinsman” who helps him fill in any missing details in the story)

Out of all of them, Celebrían is actually the child of Galadriel and Celeborn.  Sometimes people are a little confused because they heard once that her parents had a son, Amroth, but it’s chalked down to poor communication and confusion with Amdír’s son since Amdír was friends with her parents.  Celebrían thinks it was incredibly tacky to give your child the same name as your friend’s child, so really, she was doing her parents a big favour by renaming herself Celebrían.  And honestly, while they don’t mind being Amroth (the superior Amroth because Amdírion is an idealistic romantic with his head in the clouds), they also like being Celebrían a little more. 

(Galadriel concedes that naming them Amroth was not the most creative move and that Celeborn possibly lost a bet with Amdír before their birth, but she also thinks that Celebrían could do better than the lady of a little valley in the middle of nowhere, so really, Celebrían’s had enough of her mother’s advice for the next long-year or two)

+Gildor never claimed to be Finrod’s son, he’s just never actually disclosed how they’re related and since none of the other Finwëans (real or otherwise) have ever said anything about it, people just sort of follow their lead and assume it’s a non-issue.  It’s actually the most mundane thing ever - his parents were among Finrod’s retainers in Aman and crossed the Ice with him; when they were both slain in the Dagor Aglareb, Finrod took the young Gildor on as a ward of his House.

#lotr #silmarillion #crack au #long post #let's have fun with all the ambiguity and all the different versions of the stories in the legendarium! #we can have a little gnc celebrian. as a treat. #due credit to kazaera for their excellent fic about scam artist celebrimbor which inspired a lot of this post #the thing is; it doesn't actually matter if any of them are related to finwe by blood #all of them were who they needed to be and in the place and time where they were needed to be #gil-galad's still the king who rebuilt a large portion of elvendom in middle-earth and stood against sauron regardless of whose son he is #celebrimbor still made the rings; through which sauron wielded great evil but also much good was able to be preserved #elrond and celebrian are still the people who made the homely house into a refuge and a place of peace and love #gildor is neither fucking around nor finding out; he's just sort of gadding about middle earth and honestly good for him

[thelordofgifs]

4, 16, 23 for the fic ask game? (4 for the fairest stars)

(fic ask game!)

4. What detail in the fairest stars are you really proud of?

oooh making me say nice things about this fic when it’s constantly frustrating me! One small thing I was rather pleased with was a little parallel between Maedhros and Maglor across parts 11 and 12 – namely, that they’re both repeatedly described as feeling very cold (Maglor because of the blood loss and Maedhros because mental health crisis). In part 11 Maedhros thinks: “There is a blizzard in his head, consuming him, making him shiver even when he huddles beside the warmest hearths in the castle, numbing him from the inside out.” Maglor, too, is noted to be shivering, and so Fingon gives him his cloak. (The same cloak he gave to Maedhros in part 6, incidentally. He keeps doing that.) But THEN in part 12 Maglor is getting weaker and Fingon realises with some concern that even though he keeps complaining of the cold he’s stopped shivering; and Curufin is also rather alarmed to notice after Maedhros’ weird orc-killing spree that he isn’t even shivering in the chilly air. I quite like the escalation there – parts 11 and 12 are two of my favourites and I’m proud of the way 12 builds on 11. Also I love these two an unreasonable amount.

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is a role-reversal AU with Tuor going to Nargothrond and Túrin to Gondolin! I always find role reversals interesting but I don’t think I’m invested enough in the Edain characters to pull it off myself. But I want to see what Maeglin would make of Túrin (his sword was made by Eöl 👀), what Finduilas would make of Tuor, and how the fall of each city might go down differently. Something about the moment when the cousins cross paths and don’t recognise each other is so tantalising!

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

I want to write a setting change AU – my venture into canon divergence has been really fun, but I love the whole idea of transplanting characters into a completely different universe, it’s so creative. I suppose my answer generically is “modern AU”, but the silm AU that actually lives in my head is a WW1 AU with lots of tragic Russingon and epistolary episodes (I LOVE epistolary fic my beloved) and well-researched accurate historical details – this last being why I haven’t actually written it, it would require time and effort. Would probably also be quite educational, though.

Thank you for the ask friend 💕

#asks #that-angry-noldo #the fairest stars #ask game

[squirrelwrangler]

for the trope meme: Genderbend AU and Bed Sharing For Warmth :)

Ooh, okay the second I saw Bed Sharing I immediately thought of how the big climatic moment in the story of “Of Ingwë Ingweron” Post-Duel/during the Great Journey is when Ravennë finally, very publicly lies down on the sleeping pallet with Ingwë. It’s not exactly this trope, but it’s something well within my wheelhouse. The cliche abandoned cabin in the woods, one blanket fic was going strong when I first started reading fanfic, so I could probably do a formulaic version too for the Silm - Tuor and Voronwë on their way to Gondolin or Beren and Lúthien during their tour of the Deadly Nightshade that once was Dorthonion would be natural places to write it.

(Looks at the moments in fusion-universe Theon/Jeyne, be it the two moments in Hunter-bold or the passing out together right before Ancalagon goes crashing down - those count if there’s not actual bed?) 

GenderBent AU -confession time. This is one of those tropes that don’t appeal to me. zilch, nada. Definitely not as a reader, so not really as a writer. I could try it, but I rather look at age-reversal AUs, something like DC Bombshells where the female characters replace the male characters in narrative importance, or any other type of AU instead. At most I could be comfortable with gender-bending a dwarven character because of canon leeway.

#meme replies #crocordile

[sesamenom]

@general-illyrin @tar-thelien @who-needs-words I think you all mentioned being interested in the reverse gondolin au - is anyone interested in helping with wrangling the timelines, especially the second age stuff? Here's the current outline:

(Edit: anyone feel free to help out if you're interested!)

YT 14365 - Birth of Lomion

YT 14373/FA 1 - Death of Argon

FA

2 - Aredhel adopts Lomion

300 - Birth of Idril

316 - Turgon & Idril kidnapped by Eol

400 - Turgon & Idril rescued. Death of Eol

465 - Finrod more-peacefully passes throne to orodreth while on Quest. Everyone except beren still dies

472 - Nirnaeth. Turgon named High King of the Noldor.

476 - Turgon abdicates official title. Aredhel named High King of the Noldor.

496 - Tuor comes to Gondolin

502 - Wedding of Idril and Tuor

503 - Births of Earendil and Elwing. Idril begins to have foresight dreams about the Fall.

506 - Second Kinslaying. C^3 dead, celebrimbor stays in gondolin. Aredhel denounces the oath/kinslaying and disowns C^3

Elwing survives & is found by Oropher & Thranduil // Galadriel & Celeborn. oropher, thranduil, oropher's wife, and thranduil's then-gf // galadriel & celeborn take Elwing to Gondolin as refugees. The Silmaril is left hidden in the woods of melian's domain.

507 - Elwing comes to Gondolin.

509 - Idril captured by Morgoth. Idril reveals the location of Gondolin in exchange for an Oath to not harm her family (Turgon, Tuor, and Earendil). Idril rescued.

510 - Gondolin prepares for war with Morgoth.

513-522 - Siege of Gondolin. Deaths of Duilin and Rog. Gothmog slain by Aredhel the Huntress. First use of the Three Rings by Lomion and Celebrimbor in defense of Gondolin. House of the Hammer of Wrath destroyed.

523 - Maedhros believes a Silmaril is with Elwing at Gondolin.

525 - Earendil weds Elwing. Lomion weds ???. Adoption of Gil-Galad

532 - Births of Elrond and Elros.

538 - Third Kinslaying at Gondolin. Death of Amras. Elrond and Elros kidnapped by Maglor. Deaths of Elwing and Turgon. Second use of the Three Rings by Lomion and Celebrimbor. Deaths of Maedhros and Aredhel. Lomion named King of Gondolin and High King of the Noldor. Deaths of Salgant, Penlod, and Tuor. Earendil named Lord of the House of the Wing.

540-549 - War declared between Gondolin and the Feanorians of Himring over the Third Kinslaying and kidnapping of Princes Elrond and Elros.

549 - Elrond and Elros recovered. Feanorians and Gondolin severely weakened. Celebrimbor // Gil-Galad declared heir to the High Kingship.

552-554 - Second Siege & Fall of Gondolin. Third use of the Three Rings by Lomion and Celebrimbor. Deaths of Ecthelion, Glorfindel, Egalmoth, and Turgon. Idril and Celebrimbor lead survivors through the Secret Way.

555 - Gondolithlim refugees arrive at Sirion.

556 - Idril departs for Valinor.

558 - Earendil searches for Valinor.

560 - Havens of Sirion destroyed by Morgoth. Gondolithlim/Doriathrim survivors scattered. Elrond and Elros rescued (as adults) by Maglor.

572 - Morgoth controls Beleriand. Earendil and reembodied Elwing come to Valinor and rally the Host.

575-617 - War of Wrath

618 - Maglor claims the Silmaril from Eonwe's camp and casts himself into the Sea. Death of Maglor.

620 - End of the First Age.

SA

1 - Founding of the Grey Havens and Lindon under High King Lomion

2 - Elros becomes the first King of Numenor

c. 500 - Sauron returns to Middle-Earth in the East.

650 - Eregion is founded

1000 - Galadriel is given Vilya; Lomion wields Nenya

1170 - Annatar comes to Lindon and Lomion turns him away. Lomion warns Celebrimbor of Eregion of his suspicions.

1200 - Annatar comes to Eregion. Celebrimbor takes him in to monitor.

1250 - Celebrimbor creates the Seven; Lomion creates the Nine.

1410 - Annatar is kicked out of Eregion.

1600 - The One Ring is forged. Sauron remains in hiding.

1610 - Sauron begins to gather and prepare armies in the East.

1673 - War of the Elves and Sauron begins.

1675 - Sauron invades Eriador.

1677 - Fall of Ost-in-Edhil. Celebrimbor and Lomion remain at the House of the Mirdain. Death of Celebrimbor in battle // Fourth use of the Three in battle. Sauron does not learn of the Seven. Founding of Imladris.

1678 - Sauron defeated by the Numenoreans and the Elves of Lindon.

1679 - Sauron flees to Mordor. First White Council held.

3147 - Civil war in Numenor.

3225 - Ar-Pharazon seizes the Sceptre.

3228 - Elrond claims the Sceptre. Ar-Pharazon disowned. Tar-Miriel named Ruling Queen.

3232 - Sauron taken to Numenor as a prisoner.

3274 - Elrond kicks Sauron out of Numenor and outlaws the morgoth cult.

3310 - Morgoth cult publicly reappears.

3319 - Downfall of Numenor. Tar-Miriel leads a greater force of the Faithful away.

(green // blue means two main options, red means i need to think about it more)

The main details I'm figuring out right now are

does Celebrimbor still die at Eregion - I don't think he's getting captured/tortured, but he could still die in the battle. On the other hand, he could probably survive by using Narya & Lomion using Nenya, but that would definitely have repercussions further down the line

how does Idril's deal work - I'm currently thinking of Idril exchanging the location of Gondolin for her family's guaranteed safety, because it seems in character for Reverse Idril? But on the other hand, even if I limit it to immediate family at the time of the oath (tuor, turgon, earendil) then idk where turgon dies? Maybe Maglor can kill him but that seems kind of random

where and how does Turgon die

how does Prince Elrond's character even work

how does Numenor still fall when factoring in Prince Elrond - I'm thinking that the morgoth death cult gained enough traction during the time sauron was there that even after Elrond kicks him out, the cult still sticks around and reemerges later? The Fall still happens, but they never go to attack valinor and there's a good deal more Faithful (maybe 40-60%?)

#silm #silmarillion #not art #reverse gondolin au #basically elrond is giving me a Lot of trouble here #i tacked an extra 30 years onto the FA (so the SA dates are mostly shifted up by 30 years to balance it out; hence elros being king in SA 2 #this means e&e were adults during the Fall of Gondolin and the war of wrath and all #so instead of 'kind as summer' elrond of the last homely house in rivendell #we have gondolithrim veteran/dragonslayer Prince Elrond of Imladris Stronghold #and later the Bastion of the Faithful of Numenor #ironically enough he turned out way more feanorian when not raised by feanorians #instead of sirion e&e's defining Childhood Trauma was the gondolin kinslaying #in which mae and aredhel duel to the death while screaming at each other about fingon's fate and the Oath #and argon and elenwes deaths on the helcaraxe #also elwing fully died trying to protect them in this one #and then e&e were like 20something and sons/grandsons of two Lords durign the FoG so obviously they ended up fighting there too #and then again at the war of wrath #and by the mid SA elrond has already lived through so many wars he's running rather low on hope #so Prince Elrond still tries to be kind but is also substantially more willing to threaten people if need be #after eregion he founds imladris as a haven but also an impenetrable fortress #he saw the fall of gondolin and he knows that rivendell couldn't last forever #but he believes he can make it last long enough to defeat sauron first #or at least push him back so that the refugees of eregion can rebuild and survive #meanwhile celebrimbor takes up the last homely house role #but yeah Prince Elrond is pretty interesting #he intervenes more with numenor bc hes watching them self destruct and knows (bc foresight) exactly what would happen #so he tries (eventually in vain) to prevent it by disowning and exiling ar pharazon #and later exiling sauron around the time of the burning of nimloth #but it's too late and the morgoth cult already gained enough traction #on the other hand there's a lot more Faithful led by tar-miriel

[sesamenom]

Prince Elrond of the Reverse Gondolin AU!

he has a great deal more control over his weird powers than canon-elrond, mostly due to having actually grown up with elwing's guidance in gondolin, so he spends most of his time in full minor-maia-form, complete with wings!

#silm #silmarillion #second age #reverse gondolin au #elrond #prince elrond #(He also has way better control of his foresight from idril's lessons) #the wings are the same color as his hair mainly to differentiate him from normal elrond wings #he still has the same weird people-imprinting hair in the au #except this time it has more purpley shades for elwing; a longer gold streak bc earendil was actually present; and a greyish bit for lomion #plus a less-visible black streak for basically the rest of gondolin #the patterns are a little clearer in his wing feathers #his crown is also similar to the noldorin crown #but the way the feathers curl up at the end looks more like the sindarin style crown #and the black and white parts of his outfit are doriathrim style

[sesamenom]

more from the reverse gondolin au

#silm #silmarillion #reverse gondolin au #idril #lomion #celebrimbor #lomion is so fun to draw #featuring celebrimbor with his weird himlad hairstyle #realized i forgot to color his mouth oh well #they made the Three ahead of schedule and single handedly fixed the entire feanorian-nolofinwean feud #thinking abt idrils house of the mole being more focused on protection compared to maeglins mole #if the fall comes (bc aredhel is not quite as cautious as turgon) idril and the house of the mole already have escape and backup escape pla #and reinforced fallback points inside the city when the wall is breached #growing up w eol and foresight means idril always has plans and backup plans and alternate plans and contingencies for those plans too #meanwhile lomion is well equipped with nenya to counter balrogs & fire drakes #idril is the sort of person who hardens inward to defend herself & her family #maeglin hardens outward to preemptively counter perceived threats #despite having an exponentially better late-childhood than maeglin #lomion is still very much traumatized from being orphaned at the Lammoth. #he probably freaks out when rog (his mentor/father figure) leads the hammer of wrath at the gates. #when their positions are switched lomion bonds better with the rest of gondolin #and either never gets nabbed by morgoth or gets promptly rescued on his way to angband. #idril plans for the worst because growing up in nan elmoth #the situation usually ended up being the worst she could predict #so morgoth doesnt have the extra intel #lomion has friends and one of the Three #and idril has an even better prepared version of the Secret Way #and hey maybe gondolin does end up surviving

[sesamenom]

Reverse Gondolin AU family portrait

#silm #silmarillion #idril #tuor #earendil #reverse gondolin au #is this baby earendil's first appearance in the au? #so I decided Idril & Tuor still get married in this au #mostly bc I want Earendil to exist. #i haven't figured out what I want to do with Lomion #but maybe he can be obsessed with tyelpe instead of idril bc they're friends in this au and idril showed up a lot later? #also c&c + celebrimbor moved to gondolin instead of nargothrond since Aredhel lives there #you may notice that tuor has a diff hairstyle & outfit in the au! #this is bc fashion trends in reverse gondolin are more influenced by aredhel's choices than turgons for obvious reasons #hence the white cloaks and shorter (but equally fancy) sleeves #also idril is lord of the mole in the au #my headcanon is that 'lord' as of the lords of gondolin is just the title regardless of gender for the specific role #'lady' is a different role with much less administrative stuff and more social/public-appearance type stuff #aredhel is the white lady of gondolin bc she does Not want to be a lord #so she does the occasional royalty-waves-and-smiles-from-a-tower type event when necessary #but other than that she doesnt have political duties #idril is the administrative/political leader of the Mole in the au hence she is a lord #shes also the lady of the wing bc she married tuor and is part of the house of the wing's nobility but doesn't do their political stuff #and tuor is the lady of the mole #reverse turgon after arrival has less of a interest in politics than canon turgon (the whole eol deal was rather traumatizing and he needs #time to recover) #so he's not one of the Lords but he is colloquially ar-feinion #his official title is some sort of prince #after he reaches a more stable emotional state he helps a lot w the political stuff when aredhel is out #so maeglin doesn't have todo everything himself

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no living man may hinder me: The Gilded Wraith of Numenor

from the Reverse Gondolin AU, based on @who-needs-words's idea for Ar-Pharazon's fate! (they also wrote a ficlet for it, check it out here!)

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #witch king #witch king of numenor #ar pharazon #eowyn #reverse gondolin au #ooh i need to do this pose for fingolfin and morgoth #the parallels though! eowyn facing pretty much certain death #but being brought back by hope in the Halls #while fingolfin faced morgoth because he lost all hope #also: in the au sauron & pharazon took a bunch of numenorean tech with them before the Downfall #bc nobody attacked valinor so all the airships and engines and stuff were still on the island #so we get Steampunk Tech Numenor #(perfect symbolism w industrialization too!) #which means of course the witch king of numenor gets a Gun Sword #which is frankly terrifying #his face is still visible here bc the tiny bit of maia/peredhel ancestry (still like 20x more than aragorn tho) protects him from the rings #enough that his fea & hroa haven't faded; just been corrupted #also in the au bc of Prince Elrond's involvement in numenorean politics ar pharazon is way more aware of potential loopholes #in the 'no living man' thing #aka arwen and galadriel #and honestly he expected to be slain by arwen #so he still overlooked eowyn (and merry) #just for very different reasons #less hubris in a 'i am invincible' way #and more hubris in a 'you arent nearly important enough to bother paying attention to' way

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Ar-Pharazon from the Reverse Gondolin AU and as Witch-King of Numenor - thanks to @who-needs-words for helping develop this idea!

#silm #silmarillion #second age #ar pharazon #reverse gondolin au #(well more like the aftermath of gondolin reversal) #this au has consumed my life #on the plus side inspiration for feanor is finally reemerging from under the metaphorical couch so i might get something finwion-y done soo #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so much to draw so little time #seriously though golden nazgul is such a cool idea #whatever the mordor equivalent for the angband trio is (sauron pharazon and shelob maybe?) is going to look so cool in black and gold #black/gold black hole shelob!! #and prince elrond is super finwiony looking #also he has his wings & glowiness out a lot more so that'll be fun #but yeah basically in the au Prince Elrond realized via foresight what was happening/going to happen in numenor #so he went there and disowned ar pharazon (by extension removing him from the throne) and crowned tar miriel rightful Ruling Queen #then later when sauron showed up he came back kicked sauron out and outlawed the death cult #but between that time sauron secretly recruited ar pharazon by promising him kingship in exchange for his support #and anyways ar pharazon survived all the way to the TA as the Witch King #(mr. angmar here gets to be second in command of the nazgul sorry) #-imagine this guy showing up to be all 'bagginssss' though #the witch king of numenor is somehow even more dramatic #also the whole 'no living man can kill me' is. a bit different coming from a guy who has many enemies in the form of #a) his cousin the Ruling Queen of Numenor #b) his uncle the choice-of-elves-peredhel #c) a bunch of Faithful in the Halls #the dead guys aren't too much of a problem #but i wonder if he heard that prophecy and worried a whole lot more about the Ruling Queens #or Prince Elrond who in the au has very definitely embraced his maia-ness #and then imagine his surprise hearing 'but no living man am i' and it coming from. a random human lady.