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[artoolante]

what social medias the finweans use

Fëanor is on Twitter and he's the type of person who rants A LOT

Fingolfin is one of those people who writes inspirational career messages on LinkedIn. He tried to follow Fëanor on Twitter and got blocked.

Finarfin is on Twitter, but he minds his own business and tells Fingolfin what Fëanor says about them

Findis is on Pinterest, idk, we know basically nothing about her but maybe she'd like Pinterest

Lalwen seems like the "cool aunt" type, and she's on Snapchat

Maedhros has all platforms to lurk on to moniter his brothers' behavior

Maglor is also on all platforms but he mainly likes YouTube so he can post his music videos and covers. He keeps the others for branding.

Celegorm is on TikTok, trying to make it big. He carefully ignores how his dog pulls in the most views

Caranthir is on Reddit. He's also on LLC Twitter.

Curufin is a passionate Redditer, gets into a lot of *discourse*. He also has Twitter to hype of Fëanor in his arguments.

The twins are on TikTok and more successful than Celegorm at it. They do trends and dances. They helped one of Maglor's songs trend on TikTok although he refuses to peruse the app beyond the most basic promotional posts (he is grateful though).

Fingon is on Instagram and his page is very aesthetic.

Turgon is on Facebook. Idk, he just seems like a Facebook dude.

Aredhel is also on Instagram. Her page is very fun, especially after she blocked her annoying ex.

Argon is on TikTok, I think.

FInrod is a YouTube influencer, and he vlogs everything. He also does tutorials for everything from makeup to home design and shows off his closet, stuff like that. He also posts thirst traps on Instagram and stuff

Aegnor is on Instagram and he posts very cryptic photos hanging out with a "friend". They're with Andreth but his family doesn't need to know.

Angrod is on Facebook, and he posts photos of his family on vacation and stuff, writes about his kids.

Galadriel is on Pinterest and she posts lots of forest photos, nice scenic stuff. She goes on Instagram a bit but posts rarely, mostly with Celeborn.

[artoolante]

hi, I hope ur doing well<3 I just wanted to know what year(s?) do your chatfics take place?

Hi friend!

I hope you're doing well too! First off, thank you so much for reading my chatfics and dropping a question.

chats with your dasher is the most recent one; I don't personally use Doordash delivery, but I will confess I got the inspiration from seeing other people's exchanges with their Doordashers in a recent TikTok trend.

917 (ttyl) is probably early 2000s - 2010.

communication for dummies is probably 2010s.

Thanks again!

[artoolante]

My (maybe) unpopular trait as a PJO fan is that I really struggle to care about anything Percy is not involved in. Sorry, that's my day one and to be honest my favorite narrator regardless of order.

Getting through The Lost Hero was a challenge, because for the first fifty pages, I was thinking, who the fuck were those people, and then Percy wasn't showing up and Annabeth was sad.

I know it's not fair, and I did warm up to some of the newer characters but Percy Jackson >>>>>>>>>>>

[artoolante]

This is nothing new, but still:

Being a child of a minor deity in the pjo verse must've been the worst thing ever, because your parent is obligated to be a deadbeat, and then you're obligated to be homeless because while they do live at the Hermes' cabin it's not their home.

Crazy.

[artoolante]

Thoughts on Fëanor's relationship with his sons pre-Kinslaying (1-3)

Maedhros: I think he was very proud of Maedhros, and yet also at times at odds with him. Maedhros definitely had a more diplomatic approach to the rest of his family compared to his father, and honestly his brothers as well. I think Maedhros would have had some classic firstborn gripes, being forced into Fëanor's issues with the family. Because Fëanor had so many projects, and was also the father to six other children, I wonder if he tried to extend his political ambitons through Maedhros. I wonder if Maedhros ever seriously explored a craft, or if he always knew he'd have to be a politician, and that might've caused some tensions.

Maglor: Considering Fëanor's way of choosing favorites and that he is a linguist, I could see Maglor being his favorite prior to Curufin and still pretty up there after Curufin was born. I think Fëanor would've not only been very proud but also involved himself in Maglor's education. I think he would've had a lot of feedback as well, meant constructively but as Maglor got older maybe it would've been taken a bit less eagerly. Also, Maglor is the best minstrel in Valinor (his only true rival Tolkien indicates could surpass him was Daeron who Fëanor never met, leaving Maglor unrivaled as far as he was concerned). For the Noldor, this is the most a parent could ask for, and especially one as proud as his father.

Celegorm: Celegorm is the one with his grandmother's hair, and I think this would have been something both fascinating and bittersweet for his father. I think he would've taken great pride in it, but also felt embittered, not at Celegorm, but that he couldn't see enough of his mother. I think he would've struggled to accept Celegorm's devotion to Oromë, finding an irony in that considering his resentment of the Valar. However, he would have respected Celegorm as a hunter, and perhaps even taken some (reluctant) pride that Celegorm was held in such high regard by one of the Valar. He definitely loved Celegorm, but it was hard for them to see eye to eye sometimes, and I think he felt some relief that Celegorm chose to follow his rebellion. I don't think he trusted Huan very much though.

[artoolante]

It's actually so incredible to me that Bumblebee is just mute now. And I know that may seem like a given, but he used to be known as the talkative one 😔As a younger Transformers fan I really did not know he could ever actually talk for a while until I found out he talked in the original cartoon.

[artoolante]

What happens to the Noldor elflings without a craft?

We know that not everyone has a specific craft, or is particularly known to excel at a specific craft. I kind of imagined that given how the Noldor value craft, their education system would accomodate that. They might serve certain Valar, or take certain other types of apprenticeships. I imagine they'd have classes to suit their craft's needs.

But what happens to the ones that don't have a craft? I suppose there's some kind of standard curriculum, an undecided major pathway of sorts.

[artoolante]

Star Wars needs droid therapy and Artoo needs to go to it

He's been through so much and lost so many people 😭

[artoolante]

Maglor was more an older brother than a younger brother

Objectively, this is true. However, I think given the popularity of Maedhros and Maglor's dynamic, Maglor is usually cast more as the younger brother anyways.

This isn't just about the literal age order, though.

When Maedhros is taken to Angband, Maglor does not come for him alone, nor does he bring anyone. Given the hierarchy of the House of Finwë, it's widely agreed upon that Maglor would have been in charge following the deaths of their grandfather then father then absence of his elder brother. There is no indicator that they even try to do anything.

Maglor seems to have very little opinions about the Kinslaying and the Burning of the Ships, but when they, particularly Caranthir, are betrayed by Uldor, the previously assumed apathetic Maglor is the one who hunts him down and personally kills him.

When Doriath falls, Maedhros goes to look for the twin sons of Dior. Maglor does not do this, and it is worth noting that three of their brothers (half of them) are dead. I don't think we ever find out his thoughts on the twins either.

However, after their twin brothers died who also happen to be the last of Maglor's younger brothers, Maglor suddenly gave up on the hunt for the Silmarils. He muses about morality and how it's good that the Silmaril is far away. Most importantly, this time Maglor is the one to take in a pair of twins, all of a sudden concerned with the welfare of children abandoned in the wake of a Kinslaying.

It is not that Maglor does not love or feel loyalty to Maedhros. In the end, he chooses Maedhros over the twins. I just think it's a bit underappreciated that Maglor is more of an older brother than a younger brother and we can see how their circumstances influence his choices.

[artoolante]

megastar thoughts

starscream is the type to post about his how awful his awful toxic boyfriend (10 years, no ring) is, and then gets mad when people agree with him in the comments because that's his man 🙄

[artoolante]

haha everyone loves that peter parker is broke again, but it really does make sense that we root for a famously neighborhood centric hero grounded in humility and working class struggle

Him working for the Daily Bugle and having not only a real job, but a lowkey shitty job isn't something to be romanticized. At the same time, it's something to relate to, to understand, to sympathize with.

[avantegarda]

anyway. I'm back to caring deeply about the Silmarillion fandom and have some more stupid opinions to share.

people are always saying Maglor is the Hozier of Arda and I kind of get it but also NO! Hozier is a blues/folk-rock musician, he is DAERON! Maglor is Bastille, i.e. loud, emotional alt-pop about how everything is going to shit and we sure do live in a society but fuck it we ball. with, like, a full orchestra in the background.

Finrod is Vance Joy.

[artoolante]

maglor, updating the noldolantë: does it almost feel like you've been here before???😔✊

maedhros: since this is our third kinslaying, yes, actually.

[artoolante]

For me, Thranduil is...not over the Kinslayings, of course not, but he does not hold his grudges as tight as Celeborn. This is not that he does not think the Kinslayings were wrong. In my fic, his mother actually dies at Sirion.

However, all things considered, Thranduil simply does not have the time to sit around and ponder the past. He does not have a Ring of Power, yet he is the one with Sauron living in his Wood. He doesn't know it's Sauron but he knows there's Dark Forces, and the literal tower of Dol Guldur and its army. Thranduil really does not have the energy to expend about tragedies long ago.

If he can barely save the time and energy to consider how his father and a third of his people died in the Last Alliance, how does he go back to the First Age when there are so many pressing issues for him in the Third Age?

This same argument also goes for why he is not as "engaged" in others' affairs like Elrond or Galadriel. It is a privilege to be able to spare time for the concerns of others, a privilege provided by the Ring that let the people of Lorien and Imladris live in relative peace.

The Elves of Mirkwood are not sitting around thinking about others because they're fighting for their own lives every single day under the shadow of Dol Guldur.

Anyways, so in one of my fics, I thought about whether or not Thranduil should be more furious than he was depicted when Maglor shows up in his wood. And it's not that he's not, but he's more pragmatic about it I guess. Which is why his most pressing concern is whether or not Maglor is a threat in the Third Age, if he can be trusted in the Third Age. The First Age was bad yes, but the Third Age is bad for him too, and they haven't yet made it out of the Third Age which is their current challenge.

[artoolante]

(Years late to replying to my own post about whatever)

Another thing I think about when it comes to Thranduil is that his son, Legolas has no canonically proven Silvan heritage yet he very much identities as Silvan. He speaks the language, and he lives the culture of the Silvans. He hates the Sea, despite that the Sindar were originally going to go to the Sea and Sail if it were not for Thingol getting 'distracted' by Melian.

He identifies as Silvan to the extent that I don't think it's clear he's even one of the Sindar until one reads the Silmarillion and realizes who his family is. I always took this to mean that his mother was likely Silvan, as we don't know anything about his mother.

However, it also speaks to the assimilation Thranduil participates in when he joins the Silvan people despite being the son of one of the Doriathrim. The Silvans do not concern themselves much with the Noldor or Valinor, and in that sense he follows his people's values.

While it could be argued his hostility towards the dwarves is part of the bias the Sindar have long held against the dwarves, I also think not wanting a fire breathing dragon near the Wood is plausible enough by itself. Is it selfish? Maybe. Is it isolationist, probably. But this goes back to the point that Thranduil and his people have their hands full as it is.

[artoolante]

(a bit) on racism in middle earth

cw// racism, discussion of canonical incest, angband

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here's the thing. i can acknowledge that characters did bad things, evil things. however, i can also acknowledge that the way they are characterized is racially coded (read: racist characterization).

I think the main example of this is the whole idea of the "Dark Elves" while Maeglin and his father. Maeglin's desire for his golden cousin Idril is seen as disturbing and unnatural - meanwhile Galadriel marrying her cousin is considered fine????

I understand Maeglin's desire was unrequited, but as a Dark Elf, making him into someone who went too far, betraying Gondolin and trying to kill Idril's son - in combination to his father the Dark Elf kidnapping his mother, the White Lady of the Noldor, is very racially coded. It's not even subtle either.

Like I hate Eol, but I'm also not going to ignore the problematic way in which he was treated in the literary narrative. As for Maeglin, I think he did deserve to be a more nuanced character than he was, especially because he literally got taken to Angband before betraying Gondolin. Does nobody consider that this may have impacted his moral state or do they just assume it's because he's a Dark Elf. Like Idril "sensed" darkness in him before like wtf?

[artoolante]

After a family dinner dissolves into family infighting with their fathers, Maitimo and Findekáno take their brothers and Findaráto for a walk in the woods. Maitimo loves Makalaurë very much, but is not personally compelled to have kids of his own. However, he does wonder if Findekáno wants children watching him with his first sibling - newborn Turukáno. However, even if they can have children together, the society and family dynamics they were born into would never allow them to be a couple openly much less have a family.

After all, have they not all left to escape the yelling and discord at their grandfather's table? Nevertheless, they steal these moments of peace while they can.

Note: I don't want to go down the whole line but my hc is Maedhros is the oldest, then Fingon, a small gap - and then Finrod, then Maglor, then Turgon. I think Maedhros and Fingon are young adults, Finrod is a teenager, Maglor is a preteen and Turgon is a newborn.

[artoolante]

For me, Thranduil is...not over the Kinslayings, of course not, but he does not hold his grudges as tight as Celeborn. This is not that he does not think the Kinslayings were wrong. In my fic, his mother actually dies at Sirion.

However, all things considered, Thranduil simply does not have the time to sit around and ponder the past. He does not have a Ring of Power, yet he is the one with Sauron living in his Wood. He doesn't know it's Sauron but he knows there's Dark Forces, and the literal tower of Dol Guldur and its army. Thranduil really does not have the energy to expend about tragedies long ago.

If he can barely save the time and energy to consider how his father and a third of his people died in the Last Alliance, how does he go back to the First Age when there are so many pressing issues for him in the Third Age?

This same argument also goes for why he is not as "engaged" in others' affairs like Elrond or Galadriel. It is a privilege to be able to spare time for the concerns of others, a privilege provided by the Ring that let the people of Lorien and Imladris live in relative peace.

The Elves of Mirkwood are not sitting around thinking about others because they're fighting for their own lives every single day under the shadow of Dol Guldur.

Anyways, so in one of my fics, I thought about whether or not Thranduil should be more furious than he was depicted when Maglor shows up in his wood. And it's not that he's not, but he's more pragmatic about it I guess. Which is why his most pressing concern is whether or not Maglor is a threat in the Third Age, if he can be trusted in the Third Age. The First Age was bad yes, but the Third Age is bad for him too, and they haven't yet made it out of the Third Age which is their current challenge.

[artoolante]

on maedhros and maglor's trip with finrod

Ok so first,

Finrod finds out about the Men while on a trip with Maedhros and Maglor; they were friends. While Finrod taking in Celegorm and Curufin could be considered an act of mercy to shelter them during wartime, this trip was a choice that he made because he just wanted to hang out with them.

However, what about the Kinslaying at Alqualondë? As far as we know, Maglor participated at Losgar too. How does he just go back to hanging out with them, especially in the middle of the woods where literally anything could happen. I want to say that there must have been some awkwardness/distrust but the circumstances imply that Finrod did trust Maedhros and Maglor a lot there.

Which brings us to the next point of Finrod disappearing. Obviously this was not their fault, but it would have looked really bad for Maedhros and Maglor, kinslayers, that their - half-Telerin, prince of Alqualondë, grandnephew of Thingol - cousin just vanished while in their company in the middle of nowhere. It's not just about the family drama, but the larger ramifications of Maedhros and Maglor possibly returning without Finrod given that they are Kinslayers

Also, while the last part was my analysis of what happened, my headcanon is that in Valinor Fingon went camping with Maedhros, Maglor, and Fingon. Obviously there's Russingon but I feel that Maglor and Finrod would be more than fine with him joining them especially because things were a lot less complicated in Valinor. Idk I just think he would fit in there, even if he wasn't on the canon trip, there was a lot going on and maybe he was busy.

Also, given the nature of their fathers' relationship, Maedhros and Fingon probably had the most freedom outside of Tirion. I feel like out of all the brothers, Maglor would be the least likely to tell on Maedhros and considering Finrod was fine with his younger sister marrying their maternal cousin, I don't think he'd have issue with russingon.