#the noldor have a long legal tradition and a tendency towards Rules for Everything

[feanorianethicsdepartment]

(I just realized how funny your header and username are together and now am just thinking about the idea of a physical Feanorians ethics department)-outofangband

hey just because our ethical principles have specific contingencies for murder doesn’t mean we don’t have any

(thanks! the fëanorian ethics department, as i imagine it, is this one elf with a shop in thargelion. her actual job is managing some small part of caranthir’s civil bureaucracy - signing off the forms people fill out after a campwide brawl, kind of thing - but her noldorin Craft™ is getting into really long arguments about ethical philosophy, something she does with as much alacrity in beleriand as in valinor)

#ask #feanorian minions #pinned up outside the ethics department #honestly the feanorians strike me as the kind of people with a lot of rules about violence #because if it's something that happens a lot it should probably be regulated #fed elf brings this up in debates with west belerianders a lot but they always interpret it wrong #in fact it's generally the sindarin feanorians who do the spur of the moment violence #the noldor have a long legal tradition and a tendency towards Rules for Everything #the sindar tend to prefer cutting through all that and handling it one on one #which means murder in feanorian territory because of course it does #main-to-outofangband-andothers