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I put on my hazmat suit and ventured back into the RoP subreddit. And this commenter clumsily tried to describe Robert Aramayo’s “funny face” and I helped her out.

In French, he would be referred to as “jolie-laide”. It loosely translates to “pretty-ugly”, a term of endearment to describe someone who is unconventionally attractive.

#YES!#that's the perfect word for it #also 'unconventionally attractive' on its own

elronds-pointy-ears

I AM (S)CREAMING

y'all remember when we all wanted elrond to get sweaty and bloody in the battlefield next season? sounds like we will get fed!!!

#I um #I need #I need a moment #or two #or three thousand

thesolarangel

I'm doing a rewatch of RoP and Elrond is so beautiful and smart and sweet in the first episode and I can't control myself haha the production really looks ao good, the costumes ans locations oh! It's good to be back

Omg Star, that makes me so happy, thank you for sending this🥰 I'm also very much in love with the whole production✨

#♥♥♥

These halls seem so empty, even when thronged with people. That which I loved more than stars and breath has again escaped my grasp, and eternity seems faded and doomed to decay, even here in the Undying Lands.

Cruelly bright memories of distant years are the only things I can hold to my aching heart; I always believed that they would be enough. They are not; for they are too vivid, yet too far away -- you are long gone, and I am left here with nothing but lucent yet gossamer dreams. Unceasing, unchanging, dancing in the ash of a cracked soul. The spectres left behind only ever speak in laughing derision and leave their footprints like bloodstains.

What good is eternity without you? Even those most beloved moments are now coated in a fine sheen of dust. When I shake it away, I find it only concealed the suppurating wounds upon my soul. The macabre filigree of spiders have covered them in mockery of the scars they will never heal into. Accursed memory, the thing in me as alive as any waking moment and just as clear, yet never quite enough. Perhaps this is my mortal weakness.

I let you choose your own destiny, as any heart with any mercy in it must have -- how could I have lived if I refused you to walk upon your own path? Alas, the consequences of my letting you fade to but a mere recollection are now tearing me apart.

And I know...and only as the evening falls and the day dies can I whisper into the approaching darkness that I know the truth…that the one who is truly fading is myself.

#elrond #elrond half-elven #elrond peredhel #arwen #arwen undomiel #arwen evenstar #lord of the rings #lotr #tolkien #tolkien elves #I'm fascinated by the possibility however faint #that because he's half-elven Elrond maybe doesn't feel the same peace that elves should from their memories #his elven side keeps those memories photorealistic but his mortal side makes it painful #angst: it's what you do!#around here anyways >_>

imladris-bluebird

Elrond Peredhel

elronds-pointy-ears

as kind as summer

#I love him #that's all I have to say

gi-nathlam-hi

THEY REALLY DID THAT

THE ANATOMY FUCKING CHECKS OUT???????????

i was curious so i had to do a little break down of the ears for my own ref and???

they put time and thought and effort into something this small and I am never going to shut up about it ever.

#oh my goodness #tell me again that nobody put any effort into this show #I fucking DARE you

this is an agonised thirst post

because yes I want to throw him against the wall and do an extensive variety of dirty things to him, but I also want to cradle him in my arms and cover his face in butterfly kisses and mind-meld with him and destroy anything that even thinks of ever causing him pain again

#The Rings of Power #Rings of Power #Elrond #Elrond Halfelven #unfuckable lmfao sure Jan

spelacchiotto

he’s my buttercup seahorse schmoopy doodle he's my sugarboo he's my best friend he's my sunshine my baby my love

#*slams hands down on desk*#I. WILL. DIE. FOR. HIM.

tolkien-feels

I was thinking about Celebrian and Frodo having a very obvious parallel (mostly in the context of Elanor's conversation with Sam in the epilogue) but then, god. If we follow Elanor's logic... That makes Elrond Sam, doesn't it?

And um.

What is Elrond's life, from childhood until Arda Remade (!!!) if not thousands of years of everyone he loves saying "You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. Your hands and your wits will be needed everywhere. You will keep alive the memory of the age that is gone, so that people will remember the Great Danger and so love their beloved land all the more. And that will keep you as busy and as happy as anyone can be, as long as your part of the Story goes on."

tolkien-feels

Thinking now of the sheer amount of people who Elrond loves and learns from - whether in mentorship or as a peer - and who he subsequently loses, and how that makes me think of "You are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you."

The idea of Elrond who is the keeper of all the things left behind by those he loves, but also the heir to the things they never even got to have in the first place.

When Sam explains to Elanor why he isn't bitter over losing Frodo, he highlights how blessed he has been by all that he has, and I'm now wondering whether this might not be how Elrond comforts himself as he moves on from loss after loss. Moving on by treasuring the past that was and the futures that won't be sounds exactly like the kind of person Elrond is

tolkien-feels

Also thinking now of this reblog + "You have so much to be" in the context of

He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves and as kind as summer.

Just the mental image of Elrond who instead of losing bits of himself every time he loses someone, treasures those who are gone so much they become a part of who he is, in a Nienna-like transformation of sorrow into wisdom... It's just. Yeah, I'm gonna be thinking of that for a really long time now

#I just...#this explains why I've always been so drawn to him and it hurts