rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

Summary: Anaire forgives Fingolfin in pieces.
 
Length: 4.7k
 
AN: Anaire/Fingolfin reunion smut for @silmsmutweek (throwing in a tag for @nolofinweanweek too!)
 
Photo credit to Dainis Graveris on Unsplash.

Excerpt:

Was Fingolfin her responsibility? Only as much as she would be his, in a similar scenario, she reasoned. And where was he to go, otherwise? She doubted he would be welcomed in Valmar, even if Indis and Findis wished to offer him a place. So perhaps it was inevitable that he landed back in the same home he had resided in when he left.

Anairë made him sleep on the sofa.


 

Anaire

Oct. 22nd, 2022 01:47 pm
rocky41_7: (Tolkien)


Princess of the Noldor, Lady Anairë.

 

Anairë was born and raised in Tirion-upon-Túna, one of two children. Through her family’s work selling wares in the city she became acquainted with Prince Nolofinwë Arakáno, though it was many years between their original meeting and the start of their courtship. Allegedly, the Trees mingled their lights twenty-eight times between Nolofinwë’s proposal and when Anairë gave her answer. Queen Indis believed Anairë might have a moderating effect on her occasionally impulsive oldest son.

The last of the three to marry one of Finwë’s children, Anairë was always deliberate and thoughtful in word and action, never rash or hasty. Preferring to sit and listen in conversation, her friendship with the talkative Eärwen seemed to serve both their needs perfectly. Their two houses eventually became so close they were virtually one, and Anairë often found more than her own four children at the dinner table.

The departure of Nolofinwë and her descendants grieved her greatly, but she would not shift from her decision to remain in Valinor. To the present day, she keeps one of Nolofinwë’s earrings, which he gave to her as a memento at his departure, in her jewelry box.


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rocky41_7: (Tolkien)


For @domaystic day 5!

Fandom: The Silmarillion

Characters: Anaire, Earwen

Summary: Anaire and Earwen discuss the upcoming births of their children on a mild summer afternoon.


Excerpt:

Spring had not yet given way to summer and continued to breathe a hint of chill into the breeze that swept over them, even as the sunlight beaming down on the back porch was warm enough that the wind felt pleasant. It stirred the hangings about the trellises, billowing the white and blue fabric out around the posts and made the newly-sprouted leaves on the trees and bushes whisper amongst themselves. A few fat bees ambled about overhead, sampling the flowers, and a silver-green dragonfly was perched across the table from the two Elves on the couch.
rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

Anaire has a complicated relationship with Finrod after he's reborn.

Finrod is the son of her best friend, a child who spent so much time at her house she practically thought of him as her own son.

Finrod is the best friend of her second-born Turukano; Turukano who was always so introverted, but spent years being inseparable from Findarato.

Finrod is traumatized by Middle-earth, and refuses to tell his parents exactly what happened, and Anaire can see it wears on him, and she wants to give him comfort, and reassure him he does not need to spare them on their account.

Finrod is the only one of Finwe's grandchildren to return, and why should Earwen and Arafinwe's family be near whole, when Anaire has lost everything, when her husband and children are dead, and forbidden from rebirth, despite Nolofinwe's stand against Morgoth?

Finrod is the acidic envy that sears Anaire's throat when she sees Arafinwe and Earwen together, Findarato is the burning question she will never get to ask Nolofinwe-- "Why didn't you come back too?"

Finrod is a miracle, and she is so proud of him, that he has overcome the doom of the Exiles, that he has been granted rebirth and a chance at new joy.

Finrod was a leader of their people in their time of need; he is kind and gentle and good and Anaire can still look into his eyes and see the little Elfling who once chased butterflies around her garden, and cried over dead sparrows, and lay for hours marveling at the shape and the size of the clouds.

Finrod she resents; Finrod she pities; Finrod she treasures; Finrod she envies; Finrod she loves, and for that, she will manage all the rest.

Of Nerdanel

Oct. 7th, 2021 09:20 pm
rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

Fandom: The Silmarillion

Characters: Nerdanel, Anaire, Indis

Other tags: Post-Flight of the Noldor; Grief/Mourning; References to Feanor/Nerdanel

Summary: The House of Finwe grieves its losses, and Nerdanel struggles to find purchase in a stormy sea.

AO3 | Pillowfort | tumblr

"There is the clink of their forks against the plates. There is the sound of a goblet being replaced on the table. There is the smell of buttered squash.

            There is Findis’ eyes on her, a stare that Nerdanel will not meet."

 

Wrote a little something that I posted today for tumblr's Finwean Ladies' Week! Also got surprised in the hallway by a dude trying to "we should get dinner sometime" me when I was trying to heat up some cider in the stupid communal kitchen!

Anyway this kind of ties in with "First Ruins of the Noldor" but it's more a companion piece so it's not necessary to have read that one.

rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

Cross-posted from tumblr.

I am so ~fascinated~ with Finwean family dynamics so below is just some of my own thoughts on inter-family politics and particularly on how Feanor’s behavior affected the rest of the family’s relationships with each other, especially for Nerdanel.

These thoughts mostly developed in the context of a pair of fics I wrote (one of which is posted) about the post-Oath fallout experienced by the Noldor who remain in Aman, so they are the focus, and these thoughts are all in terms of what I tried to show in those fics.

Although Nerdanel mostly enjoyed Feanor’s family, her relationships with them were difficult, partly because Nerdanel is a brusque and often insensitive person, but mainly because Feanor’s relationships with them were difficult, and she necessarily took his side on a lot of things, and was seen, of course, as being affiliated with him.

Tolkien notes that Anaire (Fingolfin’s wife) and Earwen (Finarfin’s wife) were close friends, and in fact this friendship was part of why Anaire chose to stay behind. Notably, Nerdanel is not a part of this. I think she struggled with these relationships in particular, because of how Feanor treated his half-brothers.

Anaire had one of the better relationships with Nerdanel, because Anaire is a very practical, logical person and recognized that Nerdanel was not Feanor, and that she was, on some level obliged to take his side in family fights because that’s what you do for your partner. However, I don’t know that she necessarily feels Nerdanel is a friend, and Anaire was extremely critical of the way Feanor treated Fingolfin, and of Fingolfin’s ongoing loyalty and affection for Feanor, which pressured whatever positive relationship she had with Nerdanel.

Earwen doesn’t get on much with Nerdanel in part just due to their personalities. Nerdanel, as noted earlier, is blunt and generally practical, while Earwen is a lot more of a dreamy, whimsical, philosophical type. She also talks a lot. So even though Finarfin doesn’t get it as bad from Feanor as Fingolfin (because Finarfin is less a threat in Feanor’s view), Earwen actually has less of a relationship with Nerdanel than Anaire, and when the Kinslaying at Alqualonde happens, she is entirely unable to divorce Nerdanel from the actions of her family, and their relationship craters and never recovers. In a way, Nerdanel ends up taking the blame Earwen might have cast on Finarfin.

Swapping tracks, Indis reeeeally wanted this whole family thing to work. She knew how unusual it was for Finwe to marry her after Miriel’s death and she really wanted it to work with Feanor. She may have tried too hard in the beginning to step into a maternal role with him, which put Feanor off even more. She wanted to consider him one of her own kids, but that was very definitely not what Feanor wanted, and after centuries of trying to get along with him, she sort of had to accept that civility was the best thing she could get from him. She also grew increasingly upset with the way he treated his half-siblings, especially his brothers, and even more so when she saw him imparting his grudges on his sons, so that his children could carry them on. The Oath was the breaking point of her giving up and deciding he’s actually just a selfish, arrogant bastard who is concerned only with how things affect him.

Now, Indis and Nerdanel are another case of personalities don’t mesh (and this was very intentional in my portrayal of Indis’ personality, and was the case for Indis and Feanor as well). But that aside, Indis nonetheless tried to include Nerdanel in the family, in part thinking she could soften Feanor by treating his wife well. However, as with Anaire and Earwen, Nerdanel’s siding with Feanor strained their ties, and Nerdanel was not excellent at hiding her own general impatience with Indis, and after they learned of the Kinslaying, things were messy enough that Nerdanel and Indis both silently decided there was just nothing left there to save.

Findis takes the most after her mother, but unlike Indis, she is not afraid to speak up when she doesn’t like somebody, and she’s thought Feanor was a vain, arrogant blow-hard since she was a teenager. She was bitter about the way he treated Indis, as well as his behavior towards her and her siblings, and she never understood what Nerdanel saw in him. She and Nerdanel also butted heads very openly on quite a lot of things, to the point that they would often take a contrary opinion to each other purely for antagonism’s sake. Findis was therefore very ready to kick Neradnel to the curb after the Kinslaying.

Lalwende is probably the one who got along best with Nerdanel, and not unrelatedly, went with Feanor and stuck it out to Middle-earth. She was an adventurous type, which complemented Nerdanel’s personality, and escaped much of Feanor’s worse tendencies by virtue of how little a threat she presented to him for Finwe’s favor and throne, so she had fewer reasons to dislike Nerdanel by association. She was, I imagine, the one with the closest relationship with Nerdanel.


rocky41_7: (Tolkien)

Fandom: The Silmarillion

Characters: Anaire, Nerdanel, Earwen, Indis, Findis, Fingolfin, Finarfin

Summary: Anairë ponders the future, and bids goodbye to Nolofinwë and her children.

AO3 | Pillowfort | tumblr

"When Fëanáro passed the gates at a near-gallop, with no sign of Nerdanel, it was no grand surprise. All of Tirion, or nearabout, had heard their screaming at each other through the night, with Nerdanel lapsing into tears, and when she saw that would have no effect, raging at Fëanáro with a fury to rival his own as she begged him to let Telufinwë and Pityafinwë stay behind in Aman. Close in Fëanáro’s wake now followed his seven sons, their hair and armor gleaming, with Nelyafinwë at the head, and the rest of his house that would follow him across the sea in pursuit of his stolen gems."

My first fic for The Silmarillion! ヾ(•ω•`)o

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