"These are indeed strange days..."

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[konartiste]

Battles of Love Requited - chapter 2

Éomer returns to Minas Tirith, impatient to meet his bride

Click here to read on AO3

[themoonlily]

we like to joke about Éomer and Gimli fighting about who is the most beautiful, Arwen or Galadriel.

but I also absolutely believe that later on, Éomer "I would gladly learn better" Éadig becomes Gimli's favourite Man in the world simply based on the fact of how much time he spends correcting Rohirrim's superstitions about Galadriel and spreading Good News About Gal in Rohan.

though Gimli never tires of teasing Éomer about him marrying Lothíriel (someone who could potentially be very much like Arwen, if she's dark-haired and grey-eyed with vaguely Elvish air like Imrahil).

[camille-lachenille]

I spent entirely too much time making Tolkien characters on Heroforge this past week and I need to make it everyone's problem now: part 20!

This one literally came to me in a dream, where Lothíriel of Dol-Amroth was genderfluid and led a double life as her father's spymaster and the captain of a corsair ship during the War of the Ring, and they got to be an absolute badass.

The very model of a refined and demure princess

POV: you are a corsair of Umbar who fucked around and found out

Lothíriel Queen, spouse to Éomer Éadig

[frodothefair]

The latest plot bunnies:

— inspired by the fanon take that Faramir is a trans woman. (Can anyone explain to me where that one came from, by the way? I like it, but I’m kind of curious who came up with it and how. I can see it from the standpoint of Eowyn and Faramir both embodying masculinity and femininity to varying degrees, and Eowyn being gender nonconforming). At any rate, Faramir is secretly trying on Éowyn’s dresses. She catches him, and contrary to Faramir’s expectation, she does not reject him. Instead, she is curious and sort of drawn to him in his new guise.

— Lothíriel is allergic to spring in Rohan. She arrives and wakes up with her eyes swollen, her nose running, and relentless sneezes. Healer Walda saves the day, but not before Éomer becomes suspicious that Lothíriel does not want to marry him. After all, why else would she be hiding from him on the morning of their wedding?

[themoonlily]

ONCE MORE THE MOON AND THE EARTH / teaser

Here's a little teaser from the next chapter of my ongoing Éomer x Lothíriel story, Once More the Moon and the Earth (links: ff.net / ao3)

For context, in this story they meet immediately after the Battle of Pelennor fields and seek comfort in one another, but are not reunited until after the war is over. For reasons explained in the story, that reunion is really not without mixed feelings, and things are building up to something.

The chapter quoted below still needs some work done, but altogether I am very excited to share it!

Anger rushed through her like a flash of lightning. How had he found out about Meluion? Then almost immediately she knew the answer: when the King had not been able to get her to talk to him, he had sought out one of her brothers. Which one of them had betrayed that information? And what warped version had they fed him? Her voice came out almost as a scream. "You don't get to talk about him!" "I think I do, because I'm the man you used to feel better about your grief!" "And do you suppose I believe for one minute that you didn't use me to feel better about something?" For a moment, they both stared at one another in fury. But he was the one who spoke first.

gifs by @poisonedfate and @lady-arryn divider by @olenvasynyt

[themoonlily]

It's not like I have any super defined ideas on this, but I think there's some sweet unexplored ground in the relationship between Éomer and Lothíriel, and how their respective peoples explain the world.

I mean, Rohirrim and their ancestors never took part in the events of the First and Second Ages, and only beccome players during the Third Age. Entire centuries have gone by without them being involved in the grand drama of Middle-earth. One may assume they've heard something about the wars of Beleriand and Númenor the Valar and such - they do hold Oromë in reverence and believe that he brought the ancestors of mearas to Middle-earth - but it's very possible that they have a more or less different idea of how the history of the world has gone down until the War of the Ring than Lothíriel's people in Dol Amroth do.

Sure, they've learnt what they would from Gondor during the alliance between the two kingdoms, but it's bound to be somewhat different from what Gondorians believe. I expect it's some version of their previous knowledge combined or supplemented with what they've heard from their allies. I mean, people don't tend to change their whole worldview at once, they're more likely to add new information to their existing understanding as far as it complements it. Rohirrim's conception of the Elves (and the Golden Wood in particular) seems to attest to this. For them, the Elvish folk has become something strange and dangerous. One may ask: what other things about the history of Middle-earth have altered in their understanding?

And then there's of course the nature of the history of Middle-earth as adapted and translated texts. Gondorians probably have access to very different sources than what Bilbo, the progenitor of the Red Book of Westmarch, did in Rivendell. Dol Amroth might even have more close records of Númenor's history, because the city was established before the Downfall.

But anyway, I think it's safe to say that Lothíriel would have a certain understanding of history and it would be in some ways different than what Éomer, a man raised in an oral culture, would have. It's a very interesting point of difference between them, I think!

[konartiste]

Battles of Love Requited - chapter 2

Éomer returns to Minas Tirith, impatient to meet his bride

Click here to read on AO3

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

I like to think that when Faramir and Éomer first met they probably got off on the wrong foot. Éomer very much liked the more down to earth Boromir, and might find Faramir's strangeness offputting. Éomer having also realised how bad Éowyn's situation was would probably be quite protective of her, and Faramir would dislike any implication that he would ever harm Éowyn.

I think he wouldn't particularly understand what Éowyn sees in someone like Faramir.

This all changes very quickly however after he meets Lothíriel. All of a sudden Éowyn's love for Faramir makes sense, and he finds Faramir far easier to get on with after that.

[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

Eomer, Legolas & Gimli 4k

[thelien-art]

For Pride, can I ask for Lóthiriel/Éomer with the aroace flag or the ace and aro flags separately for a wider colour palette), please?

I haven´t drawn Lóthiriel before, so I took a lot of inspiration from your design of her :)

Somewhere early in their relationship

Celebrate Pride with me

[noxequusart]

Éomer Éadig

[sugurugetos]

Karl Urban as ÉOMER The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)

[meep-meep-richie]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARL URBAN [JUNE 7 1972]

[pansen1802]

the Lord of the rings, Aragorn, Boromir, Eomer, Thorin.

Private commissions please do not use.

[starlightomatic]

there have been countless oppressive regimes throughout history so it sure is interesting that the one people most love to compare israel to is the one that will be most painful for a jew to hear. but im sure that’s a coincidence

[starlightomatic]

also this

[konartiste]

The comparison is made because it is indeed very appalling that a small but loud selection of the survivors and their offspring are doing the thing that was done to them. What, do you think these people will feel any empathy if the Armenian or Rwandan or Bosnian genocides? If the comparison close to home doesn't convince them that genocide=bad, then I don't know what else to tell you about how cruel they are being.

[atomicnightbouquet]

I mean it's funny bc a lot of Israelis literally are standing with Ukraine (being genocided/occupied by Russia) and with the people of Iran (being murdered by the thousands by their own theocratic fascist regime) which you would know if you came onto Jewish blogs ever to listen and support them and not to troll them.

Oh and Israel also stood with all the hundreds of thousands of Mizrahi Jews that got genocided from countries across the Middle East when the countries they had lived in ethnically cleansed them. Because it totally makes sense to protest Zionism by driving out your native Jews and forcing them to live in Israel, then trying to kill all the Jews in Israel.

If you actually gave a fuck you would just call it a genocide without needing to resort to deliberately invoking antisemitic intergenerational trauma lmao. I don't even let my mom call Clarence Thomas derogatory things despite all the regressive Supreme Court rulings he's been a part of, yet you think it's cool to talk about half the world's Jews and go "oh I'm just invoking a genocide that happened in living memory that they still haven't recovered from so that they can learn their lesson."

Fuck yourself

[konartiste]

Buddy, I respect all your knowledge about it and I don't mean to detract from any of it. For me the message is simple.

Mass murder is bad.

And Jews who know this, will not feel re-traumatized if the Holocaust/Shoah is mentioned. It will only strengthen their resolve in saying "mass murder is bad".

Because it is. Regardless of what methods are used and who is causing it and who is suffering. It is BAD. IT IS EVIL.

Like parents who try to teach their kids to do better when they have harmed someone else, it's normal to say "remember when someone hurt your uncle? We were sad and upset about it, right? So we know it is bad. We should not hurt anyone else, but resolve the issue in a humane matter."

I don't see the point in you policing how other people try to elicit empathy from wrongdoers, claiming that feelings will get hurt. What is happening in Gaza is mass murder and it is bad.

But hey, let's discuss retraumatization again once the active traumatization due to the current genocide is stopped. I'm happy to learn and do better.

[starlightomatic]

there have been countless oppressive regimes throughout history so it sure is interesting that the one people most love to compare israel to is the one that will be most painful for a jew to hear. but im sure that’s a coincidence

[starlightomatic]

also this

[konartiste]

The comparison is made because it is indeed very appalling that a small but loud selection of the survivors and their offspring are doing the thing that was done to them. What, do you think these people will feel any empathy if the Armenian or Rwandan or Bosnian genocides? If the comparison close to home doesn't convince them that genocide=bad, then I don't know what else to tell you about how cruel they are being.

[bluelisbon]

blood + hands: the mentalist 6.02, “black-winged redbird”