Indis Headcanons
Dec. 20th, 2023 11:14 amFrom this ask, a few of my personal Indis thoughts.
Hello! (。・∀・)ノ゙I have some thoughts on Indis!
I've talked about her before in the context of her relationship with others (as well as a little fic), but Indis is so interesting to me as someone who was willing to marry Finwe even with the complexity surrounding the issue.
My general thoughts on Indis--based purely on headcanon--are:
Hello! (。・∀・)ノ゙I have some thoughts on Indis!
I've talked about her before in the context of her relationship with others (as well as a little fic), but Indis is so interesting to me as someone who was willing to marry Finwe even with the complexity surrounding the issue.
My general thoughts on Indis--based purely on headcanon--are:
- Indis tends to be soft-spoken. She's not in-your-face audacious the way Miriel was; she doesn't like to attract that much attention. She's not someone who enjoys conflict, so if she disagrees, she's not likely to start an argument about it, which leads to:
- When Indis is upset, she tends to be very passive-aggressive about it. Because she doesn't want to confront a problem head-on, she finds a thousand other little ways to show that she's upset and some people find this extremely off-putting.
- She's a relatively down-to-earth person. She did not marry Finwe because she had any interest in his wealth or in being queen of the Noldor; she just loved him, and she would have loved him if he was a farmer or a shepherd just as much as when he was king. She tends not to dress as ornately as Miriel did.
- She struggled a lot with feeling that she had to "live up" to Miriel's memory, which only seemed to grow grander with time. There were some Noldor who never came to consider Indis a legitimate queen and remained loyal to Miriel and it took Indis a long time to accept she was never going to win those people over. I tend to imagine Miriel as a very strong personality (Feanor takes a lot more after her than after Finwe), which made her feel like hard act to follow up on, for Indis.
- Indis was someone who loved being a mommy. She loved having her kids, she loved watching them through each phase of their life, and it was something that was really rewarding to her. She wanted to try to fill this role for Feanor, but it became clear to her that he was not interested in that.
- She definitely babied Finarfin, as her youngest and last child.
- As her first grandchild, Fingon got so spoiled at grandma and grandpa's.
- While she got along well with Anaire and Earwen, her relationship with Nerdanel was heavily strained by each of their relationships with Feanor, and after the Darkening, Nerdanel bowed out of the royal palace. Indis never said she wasn't welcome there anymore--but see above about the passive-aggressive thing.
- She sings a lot to herself while doing chores and things.
- Had virtually no relationship with Feanor and Nerdanel's kids. What she did have was only because Feanor liked them to spend time with Grandpa Finwe, and she was usually around for that.
- I like to imagine her taking the time to get to know Celebrian, after Celebrian sails west <3 Galadriel can now look forward to her grandma and her daughter ganging up on her when she gets back to Aman.
- Like most Silm characters, I think of her as a naturally flawed, but overall good person who is trying her best. She makes mistakes, but she's trying.