#so is elrond

[spencereliotwinchester]

A Leverage fanfic made me try again to like (and watch) The Lord of the Rings movies. I have wanted to love LoTR since they came out, but there were always too many characters for me to keep straight and the storyline was confusing.

Last weekend, I watched all three Extended Edition LoTR Movies and god bless my husband and brother for helping me along.

Some highlights:

1. Took me three movies to remember and say correctly “Isildur”, for 75% of the three it was “Ilsidor” (Bonus: Saruman was Solomon for a bit)

2. Had to watch an hour of Fellowship thrice (the part where they take Frodo to the elves), because I had trouble understanding and being able to distinguish Aragorn and Boromir from each other.

3. Constant complaints that characters names were far too similar. Examples: Sauron and Saruman, Arwen and Èowyn, Aragorn and Arathorn.

4. Bafflement from my brother because by the end of the first movie I could tell Merry apart from Pippin, but was still having trouble with Saruman and Sauron.

5. My favorite characters are Aragorn and Elrond.

My husband is probably the most PATIENT person on this planet for sitting through his favorite movies with me because, well, this type of stuff happens with nearly every movie.

We can go see the Marvel/DC movies in theatre, but as soon as we’re out, my husband will have to explain the ENTIRE movie again. A lot of times we wait until they come to a streaming service so we can pause and rewind.

I’ll save the X-Men debacle from last night for another post 🤣

#lord of the rings #LOTR #leverage #extended edition #I am hopeless #Frodo #Samwise #Legolas #Aragorn #Boromir #Gimli #Gandalf #Sauron #Saruman #Merry #Pippin #Gollum #Aragorn is my cuppycake #so is Elrond #Elrond #Alex Hardison #Alec #Hardison #Dammit Hardison

[azaisya]

I got two anon asks for Elrond, one of whom also asked for Maedhros! In my heart of hearts this is a sequel to that one piece I did of Maglor teaching tiny Elrond about healing herbs. Something about Elrond learning things from Maedhros and Maglor that he then carries with him throughout his life despite everything

#elrond #maedhros #silmarillion #silm art #silmarillion fanart #tolkien art #i have so many feelings about elrond #candlesart #here down in the valley

[corndog-patrol]

elrooooooond

#ive drawn him so much but i feel like ive barely posted any art of him #elrond peredhel #lotr #arwen #aragorn #elladan and elrohir #my art #oops nearly forgot to tag the bae #thranduil #legolas

[thesummerestsolstice]

Beleriand is gone and Tol Himling remains. No one lives there, few dare to venture close. Even years later, the fortress feels like bitter grief and pained endurance.

The remaining Noldor– and there aren't many of them by the Second Age– start sailing there. It's not far from the shore; an easy enough journey, even for someone with little seafaring experience.

One day, someone– no one is sure who– takes one of the broken pieces of Himling's walls, carves Maedhros's name into it, and sets it as a tombstone. After that, more graves appear, slowly at first, then more quickly. Old battle-songs and tributes to the dead are carved and painted into the walls. Soon, the meadow around the old fortress is full of memorials, some made from the ruins, others lovingly crafted and brought from the mainland. For all the Noldor fought amongst themselves in the First Age, now their headstoens stand together. In the cemetery, the House of Finwe is united in death as it never was in life. Graves for Feanor and Fingolfin sit side-by-side in a sorrowful peace neither lived to see.

Himring stood on an icy mountaintop where the snow never melted, but Tol Himling does not. One spring the barren meadow blooms, red poppies and blue forget-me-nots. It flowers every year after, new hues and blossoms appearing annurally until the graves are surrounded by a colorful sea of flowers.

Not many Noldor choose to sail west– most that go back to Valinor go in death– but those that do leave tokens on Himling before they leave, broken weapons and battered armor. Maybe they do it to leave something with the dead who may never return from Mandos. Maybe they do it because like the dead, their fight in Middle-Earth has ended.

Men who sail by the island–��always by, never to– are very sure that there are ghosts there. To them, the place seems strange and misted, and every figure there looks like a shade. They speak of a golden-haired warrior who spends hours talking to some of the graves, a king who dutifully cares for the tombstones, wiping away dust and moss, the strange dark-haired figure who comes every year to sow wildflower seeds. But those aren't the spirits of the Noldor dead. Only those who would remember them.

#silmarillion #tol himling #himring #noldor #silm headcanons #maedhros #(implied) #elrond #elrond peredhel #galadriel #gil galad #silm meta #elvish mourning rites #I have a lot of feelings about Himling #It's still there #It's still there after everything #And so are the Noldor

[tilions]

→ elros & elrond — the first king of númenor and the lord of the last homely house

#elros tar minyatur #elros #elrond #elrond peredhel #elrond and elros #my art #my edit #tolkien #silmarillion #lotr #silm #the lord of the rings #the hobbit #✨ mine #i had feelings about them again #SO MANY FEELINGS #so here we are #the return of the silhouette edits #retro arda #(i guess we're reviving that tag lol)

[igura]

wardrobe notes for my silly au; travelling king thranduil

#thranduil #the hobbit #lotr #myart #i wanna start drawing him consistently for all of these doodles anyways #i hope his emotional state/proximity to elrond will be apparent by how ornate or stripped down his clothes and jewelry are :) #he wears dark warm colors and greens elrond wears cooler colors and occasional red and copper their tailoring is to personal taste #i like that rivendell elves have really elegant lines in their clothes it makes sense w the art nouveau architecture #i think thranduil dresses p singularly tho i think his tailoring and color choices are all of his own (dramatic) #ugh wish these geezers would hurry up and court each other so i can draw elrond wearing a flower crown in the greenwood

[caenith]

It's always been so funny to me that the Council of Elrond is literally just a meeting of people who have showed up in Rivendell with different problems and just happened to do so at more or less the same time. They didn't gather there to discuss the Ring, the future of the Middle Earth or the rise of Sauron.

Nope. Each of them have faced An Issue and decided to ask Elrond for help.

Poor Elrond. He managed to avoid the kingship, but not becoming a parent figure for almost everyone in the Middle Earth.

#tolkien #lotr #lotr newsletter #'shit guys we fucked up Gollum has escaped - what now?' #'... let's ask Elrond' #'... DAAAAAAD? We have a problem...' #I understand the Lack of Screentime but it's so sad that the movies didn't include that #Elrond my love my sweet boy my perfect father figure to absolutely anyone <3 #Ofc the issues that they're all facing are related to the Main Problem - Sauron and his search for the Ring - but still

[softlysilverfountainsfall]

Anyway, I think Elrond had a breakdown on Elladan and Elrohir's sixth birthday because they're so young, which means that he and Elros were that young when—

#because when you're a kid your living your full lived experience #so you don't know how young you are #but oh boy do I think it hit home for Elrond on his sons' birthday #imagining what he went through at that age on /them/ #...angst hours over here #elrond #elros #elrond and elros #elladan #elrohir #the silmarillion #lotr #lotr appendices #third kinslaying #softlysilver

[anattmar]

[wip] baby

#the silmarillion #silm #tolkien #elrond #fanart #wip #illustration #sketch #he's so 🤏

[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

[tathrin]

Hey fellow writers, you know that feeling when you write a thing that you know people are going to scream at you for when they read it? You know how you giggle to yourself like a gleeful supervillain when you finish typing it, how you cackle as you picture the pending pain and outrage of your readers?

Here’s to that feeling. I wish you all many fruitful and productive hours of writing specifically to find that feeling waiting for you on the other side of your brilliant, terrible words.

And I wish you many, MANY incoherent comments in response.

#anyway yeah just wrote a chapter with elrond that i am so excited for when i finally get to post oh man #people are going to HATE IT #i can't wait #writing #fanfiction #writing positivity #fandom

[runawaymun]

Alright kids.

#please I love Thorin and Elrond’s relationship so much in the book #the hobbit #thorin oakenshield #elrond

[sukeakuroo]

to think that short haired elves wouldn’t be that ugly and could’ve worked well if they had done it properly.

they didn’t want them to look all the same? fine there were tons of ways to make their hair to differ them

but nah they prefered to give them such nasty short ugly modern fade haircuts. What a waste 🤦🏻‍♀️

#rings of power #lotr #elves #the rings of power #tolkien #only thondir looked fine #arondir hot af but NO HAIR #elrond is so cute and adorable but I think I loved him bc I love Rob aramayo so

[unavidas]

Sketchbook snippet: Celebrían and Elrond, and little Arwen.

#elrond and celebrían #lotr #my absolute beloveds I love them so much #celrond #the lord of the rings #the silmarillion #tolkien #arwen undomiel #elrond #elrond peredhel #celebrían #celebrian #sketchbook #traditional art #rivendell fam #rivendell #imladris #my art #fan art

[thesummerestsolstice]

Problems Elrond was expecting in Aman:

Trying to make a new home after leaving Rivendell behind

Dealing with Valinorean elves who are very weird about him being part human and part Maia

Avoiding being crowned again (this one isn't just a Valinor problem)

Trying to stop Bilbo from causing problems

Trying to stop Galadriel from causing problems

People attempting to drag him into the clusterfuck that is Valinorean politics

Having to grow a bunch of his herbs himself because the plants aren't native to Valinor

Problems Elrond was not expecting in Aman:

A sudden abundance of doting parents, grandparents, and other ancestors

(He's gotten very used to being the person who takes care of everyone else)

(Look it's not his fault he's forgotten how to react to parental affection normally)

(It's been a really long time...)

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #valinor #elrond #elrond peredhel #look he's had a rough time in Middle Earth #none of Elrond's grandparents/other ancestors were around by the time he was born #He'd lost two sets of parents by young adulthood #The weight of the world on his shoulders for thousands of years #let him have lots of family in Valinor #as a treat #he deserves so much

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

Ok but imagine the Noldor trying to have a nice banquet after the entire Finwean Fam has been therapized and released from Mandos. Except Eonwë is the one announcing the names and titles as people arrive (it’s supposed to be a sign of goodwill from the Valor).

All goes well (except when he announces to the entire room that “Fingon Findékano Astaldo Nolofiniwion, Prince of The Noldor and Husband of Maedhros Neylafinwë Maitimo Feanorian” has arrived. In his defense, Eonwë didn’t know secret marriages could last almost four ages). But the Real Drama starts when Elrond arrives.

When Elrond arrives; Eonwë looks at the Peredhel in the entranceway, looks at his magic Scroll of Heritage-Information, and there is a long moment of silence where Eonwë contemplates if he really wants to spend 5 whole minutes announcing Elrond’s heritages.

Eonwë, in the end, decides to take a shortcut. Cuz how wrong could it go? As such, he announced to the Finwean Fam, several courtiers, several politicians, and to the face of Finwe’s actual children that “Elrond, Lord of Imladris Remade, Descendant of Finwë Noldoran and Elwë Singollo, and [Insert Celebrian’s Introduction] has arrived.”

Speculations rise, and whispers are everywhere about what the hell “Descendant of Finwë and Elwë” could mean. (A lovechild, somebody says once jokingly).

Elrond was expecting Earendilion, Neylafinwion, or Kanafinwion, even Peredhel. He was not expecting the first kings of the Noldor and Sindar themselves to be named.

Anyway, the worst part is that because of Mixed Ancestry, Elrond actually does look like a combination of Finwë and Elwë. The lovechild rumors grow.

#silmarillion #silm headcanon #elrond #finweans #elrond peredhel #eonwe #russingon #briefly #fingon #tag.words #finwe #elwe #elwe singollo #thingol #elu thingol #whys this guy got so many names #tag.headcannons