So P1 is how they all look like when their powers are in use. P2 is their looks under usual circumstances. Below is my explanation and some headcanons.
Melian: the reason all these peredhil have powers :D
Power of singing, healing, hypnosis, telepathy, future-seeing
The Girdle is just hypnosis and telepathy but on a very large scale. She has other forms, including one which is just a huge human-size nightingale, and another one with human body and nightingale head, kinda like Horus in Egyptian mythology.
Lúthien: oh the fairest of all who put down Morgorth by singing
Power of singing, hypnosis, telepathy, disguise
Of course, all these powers are very effective against Morgorth. The thinner and brighter halo represents Melian, and the other represents Thingol. The powers are retained in her second and mortal life, and she mimicked her mother’s girdle and made a similar but much smaller one around where she and Beren lived together, which was why the Fëanorians never found them.
Dior: poor guy died before we can find out if he’s mortal or not
Power of hypnosis, telepathy
He used it against Celegorm during the second kinslaying, and killed him while he was distracted. He also used it against Maedhros and made him saw Dior as Fingon, which unfortunately actually pissed Maedhros off and drove him deeper into a mad killing spree.
Elwing: from young princess to saving the day
Power to transform into a white bird
The end of her hair turned white after her first time transforming during the third kinslaying. Became more and more experienced with it as Eärendil sails vingilot towards Valinor, since she had plenty time on the ship and there’s really not much to do. Likes to sit on Eärendil’s head, shoulders or arms, and prefers head the most. Since Eärendil’s hair is already always puffy and messy, she made a bird nest on his head with his hair. He enjoys having her on his head a lot, and pets her wings sometimes, but gets bitten from time to time.
Elrond: my personal favourite, needs a hug very badly
Power to shine the light of Eärendil and future-seeing
He sees future with only left eye, so the future vision is overlapped with the reality seen by his right eye. It’s sometimes quite traumatising, seeing for example someone’s face on their dead corpse and right in front of him alive at the same time. Picked up the habit of covering his marking during his time in Lindon, as every elf and human are extremely curious towards him————son of the legendary Eärendil, with a face looking like Lucien. He’s tired of everyone asking him to show them the marking or even show them the halo, which is tiring to use and not so under his control at the time. In time the curiosity from those around him died down and he learned to control the halo better, but still kept the habit from that time. The detailed description of his halo is here:
A bit more on his halo. It stays for a while after being “summoned”, but doesn’t glow much as glowing actually consumes his strength, and if
Elros: sometimes I can’t believe he and Elrond are twins
Power of to glow the light of Eärendil and healing
I really like the idea that “the hands of a king are the hands of a healer” came from the Maia power of the Númenorean Kings inherited from Elros. Atheleas is canonically brought to middle-earth by Númenoreans, so here is THE first atheleas————on Elros’ head. With Elrond’s help (since he’s better at plants and medicine than Elros) they were able to transfer some of the plant from his head to fuse with another plant. Elros later named it atheleas/asëa aranion. Since the source of atheleas’ healing power is the same as that of the Númenorean kings, they work better in the hands of those kings. Also, Elros was able to gather human followers during the War of Wrath fairly well because of his god-like healing powers. ( A bit like how Jesus gathers followers through healing people with miracles) And of course, his powers were also retained like Lucien’s after he chose a mortal life.
Elros has healing powers, so Elrond had to study healing and medicine to achieve as much healing as Elros can with a lift of his hand, while Elrond has future-seeing powers, so Elros had to study strategies and politics to achieve as much comprehension as Elrond can with a blink of his eye. (Study from Maglor and Maedhros respectively actually lol) And btw I didn’t draw it here since these are just busts, but Elros has a similar “halo” that glows the light of Eärendil as well, but it’s around his right wrist when using, instead of on the head like Elrond’s, and it “glows” instead of “shines” like Elrond’s. His more-like-a-bracelet-halo can drive evil and darkness out of a victim better, while Elrond’s can repulse evil and darkness away from a combatant better.
Arwen: oh the evenstar the end and beginning of an age
Not as good as her Ada. The top star on her forehead represents Elrond, the bottom one is Aragorn, and the middle one is the same as her evenstar necklace. Doesn’t like to wear circlets, or at least those that cover her forehead, likes to show her marking, unlike her Ada. This is because she was raised in Imladris and Lothlorien, and basically everyone close already know how her father’s marking came to be, and was not too curious on hers, but only complimented and took as usual. So she would actually be a bit flattered to see someone interested in hearing the reason behind it.
Eldarion: the re-combining of the bloodline of the twins
It’s interesting that the bloodline of Elrond should enhance the power from the bloodline of Elros. So, he actually has a stronger healing power than Aragorn or his ancestors, but he should be the “anomaly” in the line of kings. His descendants would not have the extra boost in powers, just the usual level of “king’s hand is healer’s hand” with some better at it, and some worse.
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