#voiceofpika

[estelofthedunedain]

you ever just think of how Aragorn and Denethor are the same age

and Théoden is a few decades younger than them two

#voiceofpika #canon #lotr meta #aragorn #theoden #denethor #i still want aragorn's interactions with them as thorongil

[afoxfromthebox]

just social anxiety things: getting a message and not daring to open it despite knowing full well the sender can’t see if you read it or not

#voiceofpika #social anxiety #just social anxiety things #//insert upside down smiley

[tangled-headphone-cord]

Please pray for me

#voiceofpika #prayer request #academic and personal reasons

[maybeicanheal]

on the down side i do not think i’ll be catching up with Super anytime soon

#voiceofpika #ooc #college related reasons

[woodlandelfchild]

question

I thought of posting an open starter (or more if I feel like it) but there’s something I’d like to know before interacting. Would you like our muses to have a pre-determined relationship, and if so what kind? Because if i don’t know that stuff I won’t know how to react

The canon mentions or implies Nellas’ relationships only concerning Melian, Thingol, Túrin and Beleg, but even so not very precise (except for Túrin) so if your muse is any of those and you have more specific ideas lemme know

They don’t have to already know eachother of course, if your muse lives in Doriath it doesn’t have to mean they know eachother (after all, Nellas stays away from Menegroth and places with lots of people)

#voiceofpika

[estelofthedunedain]

Hey would you mind reblogging this if you’re an active Tolkien rp blog

Semi-active counts too

This post was made on 8th May 2021

#voiceofpika #tolkien rp #because it feels like only like 4 ish of all rp blogs i follow are actually active and i'd love to find new people #especially for lotr #i will check out every blog that reblogs this

[estelofthedunedain]

just some thoughts

“I thought you were Lúthien” was not Aragorn attempting a cheesy pick up line. He was genuinely confused

Which also means that when he called for her, he didn’t think the elf-maiden (aka Arwen) was exactly real so when she responded the way she did was Big Embarassment Time (Tm)

Tried to recover his pride by bragging about stating his lineage but that kinda flopped too

Originally wanted to post this as headcanon but I went to re-check the source and it’s literally canon actually (quote below)

The next day at the hour of sunset Aragorn walked alone in we woods, and his heart was high within him; and he sang, for he was full of hope and the world was fair. And suddenly even as he sang he saw a maiden walking on a greensward among the white stems of the birches; and he halted amazed, thinking that he had strayed into a dream, or else that he had received the gift of the Elf-minstrels, who can make the things of which they sing appear before the eyesof those that listen.    

'For Aragorn had been singing a part of the Lay of Lúthien which tells of the meeting of Lúthien and Beren in the forest of Neldoreth. And behold! there Lúthien walked before his eyes in Rivendell, clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home; her dark hair strayed in a sudden wind, and her brows were bound with gems like stars.   

'For a moment Aragorn gazed in silence, but fearing that she would pass away and never be seen again, he called to her crying, “Tinúviel, Tinúviel!” even as Beren had done in the Elder Days long ago.   

'Then the maiden turned to him and smiled, and she said: "Who are you? And why do you call the by that name?"   

'And he answered: "Because I believed you to be indeed Lúthien Tinúviel, ofwhom I was singing. But if you are not she, then you walk in her likeness."   

' "So many have said," she answered gravely. "Yet her name is not mine. Though maybe my doom will be not unlike hers. But who are you?"    

' "Estel I was called," he said; "but I am Aragorn, Arathorn's son, Isildur's Heir, Lord of the Dúnedain"; yet even in the saying he felt that this high lineage, in which his heart had rejoiced, was now of little worth, and as nothing compared to her dignity and loveliness.

#voiceofpika #aragorn's brain when realizing the elf maiden was 1) real and 2) not luthien: shitshitshitshitshit #meta #lotr meta #tolkien meta #also lol 'lord of the dunedain' when he literally hasn't met any other than his mom

[estelofthedunedain]

i like how Aragorn becomes king and one of the first things he does is give away land

#iirc it wasn't even a vassal thing it was just 'yeah the ents can have isengard and the druadain can have their forest to themselves' #i might be wrong tho #lotr meta #aragorn #meta #voiceofpika #canon #then there's also the 'humans dont get to enter the shire and that includes myself' but that was much later #im sad abt that one tho #but i get why he did it

[estelofthedunedain]

Frodo would spare Saruman’s life for no reason other than “he was good once” and that is very Christian of him

#voiceofpika #pika reads lotr #i admire frodo so much tbh #hes getting flak because he doesn't willingly pariticipate in epic battles but tbh? doing THIS? this is courage man #how many people do you know who could do this? #and it seems p clear that this too is a consequence of his quest #he has become more attuned to how ~everyone~ can fall #and knowing this goes with being more willing to forgive and offer second chances #even when he has personally been wronged by the person in question #even if said person shows no sign of remorse #that takes real strength man. real strength. #frodo baggins #lotr #saruman #JRRT

[estelofthedunedain]

elves and the dunedain absolutely do spend their free time making up stories and poems for fun, competing who makes the best one and playing games where one person starts a story or poem and the others continue it

in fact, for the higher social class this is considered part of regular education

#headcanon #voiceofpika #there's a reason aragorn and legolas were able to come up with lament for boromir on the spot #and the lorien elves went making laments for gandalf basically as soon as they heard he fell #....i just had a though of teen aragorn being given regular homework like 'make a poem about what you did last week' #number of syllables/rhythm and rhyme may or may not be specified

[estelofthedunedain]

guess I’ll be disappearing for a while again, as I’ve realized i’m seriously falling behind certain college stuff and it’s best my brain isn’t busy rping and developing plots and headcanons, you feel?

#voiceofpika #hiatus notice ig #thank you for your patience #prayers would be appreciated #might reblog this at some point tomorrow #for more ppl to see i guess #tfw you have much less things to do for college than any year before that and you still fall behind... RIP #actually i think i had less when i only had to sign in but #but in a way exams and thesis work IS less stressful than like. figuring out where you'll LIVE #and there was some stuff really messed up then #though now we have covid AND i still cant access my own laptop so there's some stuff really messed up now as well #though when i was applying for college the really messed up stuff was really only regarding myself and maybe some other new college students #and not something that affects the entire population in some way or the other #rip my tags are longer than my post good night

[estelofthedunedain]

Aragorn being Mysterious(tm), especially from the hobbits’/reader’s view is so nicely shown in the books too, like he’s introduced as some random ranger guy named Strider, nobody knows what he’s up to, then he’s Gandalf’s friend, the hobbits begin to trust him but don’t find him much more than some hobo guy (at least he’s a skilled tracker/hunter, which is helpful).

Then suddenly he’s telling them of ancient history and singing Elvish legends, casually drops that he lived in Rivendell - like, this is the exact quote:

'Where did you learn such tales, if all the land is empty and forgetful?' asked Peregrin. 'The birds and beasts do not tell tales of that sort.'

'The heirs of Elendil do not forget all things past,' said Strider; 'and many more things than I can tell are remembered in Rivendell.' 'Have you often been to Rivendell?' said Frodo. 'I have,' said Strider. 'I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may.

And then they come to Rivendell and suddenly he’s sitting with Arwen and Elrond as equals and not (as Frodo apparently expected) in a corner by himself or something, and wow whaddya know he’s Isildur’s heir, fast forward to Lothlórien and he is known and respected there as well??

And if that wasn’t enough he proceeds to claim ownership of the palantir (which nobody, not even Gandalf, contests), and if that wasn’t enough he goes on to claim the throne to a kingdom which hasn’t had a king in centuries, and he gets it

#voiceofpika #tolkien meta #aragorn #lord of the rings #lotr meta #this is 100% canon btw

[estelofthedunedain]

(sorry about inactivity i’ve been super busy and still will be for a while but i’m not dead)

#voiceofpika #ooc #hiatus #blog maintenance

[estelofthedunedain]

oop sorry for inactivity, been on summer school, forgot to make a notice

but then again i’m on semihiatus until further notice anyway

sorry if you were expecting me tho

#voiceofpika #ooc #i also got my laptop back which is great - finally a functional keyboard and screen again - but i need to readjust lol #mostly to the resolution tbh

[estelofthedunedain]

small update.

My laptop has been hacked... fell for a tech support scam, be smarter than me, kids. Don’t fall for this shit.

Anyways long story short I had to give my laptop and phone to the police for checking or whatever. Best case scenario those guys have only emptied my bank account and didn’t install malware, i dont have much hope for them getting caught but that’d be cool too; ANYWAY this means i’m computerless and phoneless for the time being.

I figured I’d use this time as a nice detox (edit: i can’t believe i wrote desktop the first time around lol) because God knows I’ve been struggling with screen addiction etc. And I can borrow another laptop for school work so that’s cool. Kinda. Bc this laptop is sooooo slow.

Anyway I started reading LOTR again. And of course this means muse is coming back. So I just had to hop over here.

But my time on is limited. I have decided that I will not be wasting time here. I can check if I have new replies, I can work on drafts, I can MAYBE plot a little bit (but i might randomly disappear for hours or days, just fyi), but i will not linger about. Won’t be going on discord either.

So... yeah. That’s it. I never really got off semihiatus, did I now?

Take care my guys. And don’t believe guys who call you and say they’re from Microsoft.

#voiceofpika #ooc #blog maintenance #also if you know any good rp blogs that follow the book canon (or try to be plausible in case of OCs) please let me know #i'd love to check them out #unfortunately as i get long breaks it means every time i come back i find several beloved blogs are inactive or deleted

[estelofthedunedain]

EDIT: if you’re interested in plotting please send me a direct message about it, don’t just like this post, thanks so i’ve been meaning to do some open starters for aragorn’s birthday but turns out i wasn’t emotionally ready or something (there’s.. a lot of heavy emotional/stress stuff going on dont ask), but i was wondering if maybe anyone wants to do some casual plotting?

like not plotting for a specific thread, just working out what our muses’ relationship might be like (from first meeting to later on or literally anywhere in between), which i think would really help any future threads (this is open to ALL mutuals regardless of whether or not we/our muses have interacted before, just hop into my IM)

#voiceofpika #plot call #i guess? #i'm not sure if i'll be ready to actually write anytime soon but i can do plotting and will remember that for later #and who knows maybe doing some plotting will actually inspire me so i can get off hiatus faster #also to anyone still following me - thank you for your patience #fair warning i am not sure i am currently stable enough to be writing in 100% correct english #so i hope u dont mind #no i did not have a brain injury it's just its harder to follow proper spelling and punctuation when you're in distress #(the distress is 100% unrelated to anything happening on tumblr it is strictly real life issues just so yk) #dang why am i writing too much in the tags again... ahem anyways #hop into my IMs if you want to #and be patient i might take a day or two to respond but i will respond i promise