rocky41_7: (Tolkien)
Fandom: The Silmarillion

Pairing: Eventual Elrond/Gil-galad

Summary: Maglor and Maedhros trade Elrond and Elros to King Gil-galad in exchange for a Silmaril, but they have miscalculated.

Length: 20k

 

Excerpt:
  When Elrond and Elros were six, the Havens of Sirion went up in smoke. Their mother kissed their foreheads and sent them upstairs with Evranin their nurse, who had been her nurse before, and promised to see them soon. It was the last thing she ever said to them.
rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

“I have the lingering sense I’m doing something I oughtn’t be,” Thranduil said with some amusement when he managed to separate from Elrond to breathe again, which took several efforts at pulling out of Elrond’s chasing kisses. Elrond blinked stupidly at him, his mind admittedly not presently running on all four wheels.

“You think your council would disapprove?” he asked, beginning to gather an argument. Thranduil let out a brief, sudden burst of laughter and his lips twisted into a smile.

“I think Glorfindel would disapprove,” he said. “Surely there must be more pomp and ceremony involved before touching a son of Eärendil this way.” Understanding spread across Elrond’s face at the thrust of Thranduil’s jest—for he assumed it was, though perhaps not in whole—and his eyes narrowed fractionally.

“This son of Eärendil shall be most unhappy if you cease touching him for Glorfindel’s sake,” he replied at once, trying not to put real annoyance into his voice as he climbed pointedly onto Thranduil’s lap. “You may do whatever I say you may do,” he added more imperiously, cupping Thranduil’s face between his hands.

“Very well, my lord,” Thranduil demurred easily, that smile still tugging at his mouth. Elrond could not decide if he was pleased or not by that title, so he simply sealed his lips over Thranduil’s again, and moved the king’s hand where he wanted it best, and Thranduil generously obliged him.

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rocky41_7: (Tolkien)
Fandom: The Silmarillion

Pairing: Elrond/Thranduil

Summary: Thranduil is plagued by the shadow haunting Mirkwood Forest.

No - Thranduil is haunted by the War of the Last Alliance.

Or - Thranduil has succumbed to some new and unknown illness.

Whatever the problem is, Elrond must solve it quickly, for even immortal Elves may not have forever.

Length: 8.4k

Excerpt:

   “How is the pain?”

            “I had never said there was pain.”

            Elrond exchanged a long look in silence with the king, who was seated on the long edge of a divan in the little room.

            “I had assumed, as you had asked for this, that there was pain,” said Elrond after the pause merely continued to lengthen.

            “It is manageable,” said Thranduil. Elrond exhaled quietly.


rocky41_7: (Tolkien)
Answer to this ask about the portrayal of Earendil and Elwing as parents.

I was stunned to come into this fandom after finishing the book and find out that Elwing and Earendil are controversial characters. Headcanons and AUs all you want, but the book makes it very clear they are heroes and Tolkien portrays them as heroes (albeit tragic ones)--Earendil slaying Ancalagon and Elwing convincing the Teleri to aid the war effort is more proof of that.

The Feanorians are the closest thing we have to true protagonists in the book and they're fan favorites, so there's a tendency to see other characters (Turgon, Thingol, Dior, Elwing, etc.) through the lens of how well the Feanorians like them or get along with them. If a character has conflict with the Feanorians, they're likely to get the villain treatment in certain circles of the fandom no matter how reasonable their actions were.

Above the cut I'm just going to link here to my tag for Elwing metas from other people.

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rocky41_7: (Tolkien)
Fandom: The Silmarillion

Characters: 
Maglor, Maedhros, Elrond, Elros

Summary
: Elwing is dead, but she will not let Maglor alone, no matter how he pleads.

Length: 11.8k

Excerpt:

The ships sailed towards Losgar, but the wrath of Ulmo, Uinen, and Ossë was on them.
rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

Lowkey obsessed with the naming tradition of the line of Elwe/Thingol.

It just fascinates me how Thingol did not create the “El-” prefix naming tradition despite being the origin of it. Luthien’s given name bears no resemblance to either of her parents’ and neither does the name of her son, Dior. Yet Dior named himself Eluchil and took up the lordship of Doriath (something Luthien impliedly rejected when she and Beren chose to make their home elsewhere) and called his children Elured, Elurin, Elwing, and in their refugee’s home, cut off from her family and her heritage, Elwing named her own sons Elrond and Elros

And then, that thousands of years later, as lord of his own realm, in the safety of Rivendell, lifetimes since he last saw either of his parents or lived among the Doriathrim, Elrond names his sons Elrohir and Elladan.

It feels especially important as a claim on Iathrim heritage considering Doriath’s destruction. It was in the wake of the ruinous war with Nogrod, when Dior stepped in to try to rebuild, that he chose to name his children after a grandfather he never met, the legendary Elu Thingol, once called Elwe. It’s after the total obliteration of Doriath as a kingdom at the hands of fellow Elves that Elwing claims this tradition in naming her own children. And for Elrond, who never saw Doriath, who was deprived of the chance to know his mother or be raised among the Iathrim in Sirion (or the Gondolindrim, but that’s another issue), when he names his firstborn children, he reaches for that heritage in Doriath, that connection and in doing so declares himself of the line of Thingol and of Elwing, and his children also. He marks them as the next generation of this bloodline, he recollects the life and death of Doriath and its people, keeping alive that memory, faint as it might be.

crossposted from tumblr
rocky41_7: (lotr)


OKAY I know this has taken me a few days and I just have to say: it's the fault of my Sims laptop which I booted up again. I don't know how that game continues to suck me in for hours at a time.

Anyway.

I mean tl;dr incredibly negative, but let's break it down.

First, I think Sauron was contemptuous of Elrond. Elrond is someone who values peace and patience and kindness. If the Second Age timeline on Tolkien Gateway is correct, he establishes Rivendell as a haven for refugees the same year that Sauron tortures Celebrimbor to death for the location of the rings of power. Sauron, as we know, is someone who values power and is willing to go through any lengths to achieve it, as well as someone who desires to impose his will on others, believing he knows best. The Nazgul are an excellent example of this--Men he tempted to corruption, bound to himself essentially as slaves, and continues to support in their tortured existence well beyond when they should have been released by death. I think he would look at anyone as gentle as Elrond and think them weak and cowardly.

In Sauron's view, Elrond either has the ability to exercise more power and chooses not to, or Elrond lacks the ability entirely and either way Sauron finds him pathetic.

However, Elrond is also a direct descendant of Luthien Tinuviel, which makes Sauron reluctant to write him off entirely. He has not forgotten that whole clusterfuck. He never had to go toe-to-toe with Dior or Elwing because the Elves were busy destroying themselves, but I think for this reason he is also wary of writing Elrond off entirely. Furthermore, although at more of a distance, Elrond is also directly related to Fingolfin "challenged Melkor to a 1v1 and actually got several hits in wtf" Finwion and Turgon "can't find me or my city can you loser" Fingolfinion. He's unwilling to out of hand assume that Elrond entirely lacks the power to cause problems for him, because his family history suggests the possibility exists.

By the time of LotR, I think Sauron knows or suspects that Elrond has one of the Three Rings of course one of Luthien's brat descendants has one which also contributes to his ability to be difficult.

He would obviously prefer for Elrond to just be dead and out of the way, and I think he looks forward to destroying Rivendell simply to spoil one of the last Elven refuges that exist in Middle-earth, but there's a reason he didn't bring the hammer down there immediately. He's had enough experience with Elrond's family to want to handle him carefully.

rocky41_7: (Tolkien)
Good evening I’m thinking about how Dol Guldur was once Amon Lanc and the capitol of Greenwood the Great and the seat of the court of Oropher, where Thranduil lived and ruled with his father in the kingdom they had built out of the remnants of their people; it was the place where in all likelihood he met his wife and got married and where he and Oropher tried to recover from the traumas of the First Age and built something to be a safe haven for all the Elves who cared to join them and then he had to watch the bones of it be taken over by Sauron, lieutenant of Melkor, who began his slow poisoning of the forest, knowing Mirkwood did not have the forces to retake it or drive the evil out of it

I made this post last night on tumblr and someone's tags criticizing Galadriel and Elrond for not offering more assistance to Mirkwood got me thinking about why we never in canon see the other two Elven settlements reach out to Mirkwood about the corruption of the forest.

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rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

For @domaystic day 16!

Fandom: The Silmarillion

Characters: Elwing (+ family)

Summary: Elwing watched for the return of Earendil’s ship.

AO3 | Pillowfort | tumblr

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Excerpt: 

Elwing had a crook in her neck. She often did, these days. There was a window in the sitting room from which she could see the harbor, and so frequently was her gaze turned towards it—even without thought, anymore!—that the muscles in her neck had begun to protest being so awkwardly craned or snapped abruptly when she thought she saw something from the corner of her eye. It was become a reflex that now occurred whether she thought she saw something or not.



rocky41_7: (lotr)
Elrond has mad main character energy for a dude that shows up only in the background of other people’s stories. I mean think about it:
  • Orphaned during the “cruelest of the slayings of Elf by Elf” and raised by the guys that destroyed his people and drove his mother to her death*
  • Dad spends his time flying a magical star-ship around and slew Ancalagon the Black, the biggest dragon ever to live
  • Child of unusual blood (part Elf, part Man)
  • Got to choose his destiny (mortal vs. immortal)
  • Child of the union of two of the most noteworthy bloodlines of the Noldor and the Sindar (Finwe’s line through Earendil; Thingol’s line through Elwing)
  • Tragically loses his twin brother to making the opposite choice vis-a-vis destiny
  • Power of foresight
  • Great-grandchild of Luthien Tinuviel and Beren
  • Member of the court of Gil-Galad, last high king of the Noldor in Middle-earth
  • Builds his own retreat for Elves which becomes one of the last Elven settlements in Middle-earth
  • Bearer of a ring of power
  • Marries Celebrian daughter of Galadriel, arguably the only one of Finwe’s grandchildren to survive to the Third Age**
  • Loses Celebrian when she sails West to preserve her life after being captured by Orcs
  • Was present at the War of the Last Alliance; likely saw Gil-Galad get killed

And yet he’s never the star of the show, but playing a supporting role. In some ways he might prefer this, but it is a bit funny I think because in any other story a dude with this backstory would definitely be the main character.

*caveat one: yes Elwing lived but only because of the intervention of Ulmo and Elrond still never saw her again
**caveat two: assuming ofc that Maglor dies at some point before the Third Age which is not certain

Fun tags people left on this post )

rocky41_7: (Tolkien)
Pairing: None

Characters: Thranduil, Elrond, Legolas (technically)

Summary: In the wake of the queen's death, Elrond attempts to ease Thranduil's pain, and soothe his worries for his child.

AO3 | tumblr | Pillowfort


"The kingdoms of Elves did not go so quiet as those of Dwarves and Men when night fell, but a stillness did often draw over, with many of them resting, or partaking in quiet, less strenuous activities while the moon hung above them (provided, of course, that they were no parties to be had—and that was especially true in the kingdom of Mirkwood, in which firelit festivities laden with drink and food were their preferred pastime)."

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