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[elerondo]

The worst and most inaccurate shade one could throw on Elrond is that degenerate "he didn't even want to be king" and using that to say "Thranduil is better / mightier / Greenwood had it worst". Why is this even a comparison, as though to say Thranduil had any choice in the matter? As though it is a good thing that Thranduil became king?

As though Angmar wasn't a thing in Eriador.

As though all the kings of the Noldor didn't die against Morgoth and Sauron.

If Elrond was king he would also die on the plains of Dagorlad like a Valar forsaken prophecy, and then the last of Feanorian memory, and the valour of Fingolfin's line would have died with him.

As though his own brother - a king - didn't also die and Elros' people later propelled the rise of Sauron, which caused all the mother fucking kings to also die.

Never again would a Feanorian star be bannered in Middle Earth, and Morgoth would have well and truly won against Feanor's kin.

Thus Sauron would have gotten hold of one of the Elven rings, Vilya, the mightiest of the Three.

So no shit, Elrond cannot be king. He chose to serve a king, then the realm, and all the free folks of middle earth.

He played the longest con through all of his PERMANENT LOSSES and you dare trash on that? Why even compare when the elves are all tragic, and Tolkien's main story is the victory of the little people, not the glorfication of war and heroes?

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