Elia Martell Appreciation Club

Elia Martell is our lovely, strong and intelligent princess. We will defend and support her. She owns nothing to Lyanna, Cersei, Rhaegar, Jon Con or anyone at all. She was AWESOME!.

[witchyhagz]

Princess Elia Martell of Dorne for Martell Week

—this beautiful commission was done by @diosaurr

[witchyhagz]

Princess Elia Martell and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen during the early stages of their courtship.

Commission done by kidana_artis

[tenthmuseondine]

𖤓Princess Elia of Dorne and her son, Prince Aegon Targaryen 𖤓

[scorpiusartistry]

I’ve been thinking about this family for a while. My heart breaks for them.

[witchyhagz]

A small commission of Prince Rhaegar and Princess Elia done by the amazing @catlvur

[witchyhagz]

A small commission of Prince Rhaegar and Princess Elia done by the amazing @catlvur

[scorpiusartistry]

I’ve been thinking about this family for a while. My heart breaks for them.

[all-lee24]

Elia Martell wip

[claudiuspulcher]

can people PLEASE stop fancasting Elia Martell with typical ‘hollywood’ beauties?!?!?! Pretty much everyone in asoiaf agrees that she wasn’t particularly beautiful and that’s FINE. It romanticises her story and idk it just pisses me off a whole lot. 

[infinitestalia]

Please drop names of these people that agree she wasn’t anything special that aren’t bitter, resentful characters named Cersei Lannister & Jon Connington, who were in love with her husband & would blame her for everything from a pimple on their nose to the upcoming apocalypse if they could. Meera describes Lord Whent’s daughter as a fair maid, who was crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty in the previous tourney at Harrenhal, but says there were others “fairer still” present at the one we know- one of those being Elia Martell. She is clearly, explicitly being stated to be beautiful here by Meera through Howland.

The World of Ice and Fire states she was a “delicate beauty”, while wondering why she was passed over for Lyanna. When Barristan disparages her in favor of Ashara, it’s both because he’s incredibly biased as he was in love with Ashara & that Ashara happened to be the greatest beauty of her time, rivaled only by Cersei. And it may just be so, that Elia could not compete with Ashara at all, paled in front of her, but that doesn’t make her unattractive. If that was the case, then hey, no woman who isn’t Cersei, Sansa or Daenerys should be allowed to be considered beautiful in the current story of ASOIAF because they’re not the most remarked upon beauties of the series.

It seems everyone is allowed to be romanticized, everyone glorified, made more beautiful, more intelligent, more special but when it comes to Elia, anything that doesn’t paint her as an unremarkable, dull looking woman who couldn’t hold a candle to the other, special girls or keep her undeserved emo husband, is crossing a line. Funny that.

[thewitchqueenofharrenhal]

Elia is so gorgeous it’s ruining my life. Rhaegar really had her in his life and said “nah actually gimme a 14 year old”

[lilith-kruger]

CONSORT OF THE DORNE

FAMILY MARTELL

PRINCES OR PRINCESS OF DORNE

[witchyhagz]

"Was she a fair maid?" "She was," said Meera, hopping over a stone, "but there were others fairer still. One was the wife of the dragon prince."

a commission made by me and my friend @archamion done by the wonderful tamdrry

[thewitchqueenofharrenhal]

ELIA MARTELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RHAELIA!!!!!!!!!

DAENERYS AND ELIA!!!!!!!

Elia haters found dead 😘

[daenerysstormreborn]

“Why is it always Rhaegar that fans talk about when it comes to what happened to Elia and not Tywin or Gregor?”

Because Tywin and Gregor are presented unambiguously as villains in the text. Gregor does not have any depth to him at all. He is cruel, violent, and evil. There is not much more to say about him. He did something absolutely horrific without remorse. Tywin is more interesting but still entirely unsympathetic and unambiguously evil. Even Cersei, who idolizes Tywin, thinks he went to hell. Plus we saw both of them alive on page, so there’s less speculation to be done. Meanwhile Rhaegar never appeared alive on page and we only have information from various characters. He’s more of a mystery to the reader, and he’s not presented as an unambiguous villain. Most characters think about him positively. The only one to really speak ill of him is Robert, who is awful. The kind of person Rhaegar was is more up to the readers to decide. There is simply more room for discussion.

Second, Tywin and Gregor are held accountable by characters in the narrative already for the death of Elia and her children. Their culpability is not something to be discussed. It’s obvious. And characters already find it vile. You could make the case that since we don’t get a lot of animosity towards Rhaegar in the Martell POV chapters, that Oberyn’s anger was directed at Gregor, that they don’t assign any blame to Rhaegar. But two things: 1. Rhaegar is dead and gone, whereas Gregor and Tywin were still living and able to be held accountable. For the readers, all three are fictional. And, now, dead. And 2. The characters not blaming Rhaegar isn’t an indication that he’s blameless. The readers are often invited to come to our own conclusions about what is wrong or right, evil or righteous. Jaehaerys is regarded in universe as a good man and great king. But we the readers know that he slaughtered his teenage daughter’s lover while she watched. We get to decide for ourselves if Jaehaerys was a good man regardless of the opinions of the characters.

Gregor and Tywin are undoubtedly the most culpable for the deaths of Elia and her kids. One ordered it and the other did it. This is known and nobody is going to contest it. It does not erase this fact to say that if Rhaegar had not absconded with Lyanna, leaving his wife and kids in King’s Landing, they may have survived. It was short-sighted of him. He didn’t know he would die. He didn’t know that his wife and kids would suffer—but he knew that what he was doing would cause political unrest, and he knew that his father had no love for his wife and kids. Perhaps Rhaegar truly believed that having a child with Lyanna was the key to saving the realm. Even if this is true, he still bears some responsibility for the deaths of Elia and her children. I’m sure he did not think they would be harmed—but therein lies the problem. He should have thought more of them, even if his intentions were noble, because he knew he was going to incite political unrest and he knew his father didn’t care for Elia and her kids.

Saying that Tywin Lannister, Amory Lorch, and Gregor Clegane are evil and culpable in the deaths of Elia, Aegon, and Rhaenys is just very “water is wet.” It’s preaching to the choir. We can all see this. The characters in the story see this. Trying to understand the kind of person Rhaegar was, including the BAD, since we’re given mostly positive views of him, is something to actually talk about. The only one really speaking ill of Rhaegar in universe is Robert and it’s most certainly NOT because he cared about Elia and the kids. Elia’s end was tragic and it echoes through the story just like Lyanna’s. Speculating about her relationship with her husband (which GRRM himself has said was complex) and what he could have done to protect her is just a matter of investigating a series of events that is still rather shrouded and thus is actually worthy of discussion

[archamion]

Princess of Dorne 🌞

[amaati]

Princess Elia Martell ☀️

Commissioned by the wonderful @chemtrailsoverthesun ❤️!

[thewitchqueenofharrenhal]

It’s so funny to watch Rhaelyas try to intellectualize why Elia Stans might enjoy the tragedy and fail marriage that involves Rhaegar x Elia.

Imagine writing paragraphs because you’re seething people are interested in an adult canonical marriage with two children that lasted longer than the sex tower between the teen and the adult man

They’re so mad their “canonical uwu true love ship” gets no attention because it couldn’t be more of a nothing burger, that all they can do is try to compartmentalize their salt!

Anyways, to the Rhaelyas on their “throwaway accounts”, we know you love to self insert into Lyanna and it’s very upsetting when fans don’t submit to your “headcanons” but Rhaegar’s canonical wife and mother of his two children is Elia of Dorne.

Maybe if you write to George your nothing burger ship will get more attention 🤷‍♀️

[riana-one]

Especially when the majority of their proofs are badly put together head canon, ignoring the actual text, and basically anything that isn't conjecture from characters with no clue.

So Selmy Barristan is a vital and reliable source, but Dany's visions in the House of the Undying are not.