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I am a poll worker tomorrow in the US election so this seems particularly important.
Do you have any headcanons for Eomer & Lothiriel and Eowyn & Faramir as parents?
Lothiriel is surprised at how hands on Eomer is as a father, especially with their daughters. Although fathers love their children in Gondor, and she was a daddy's girl, their raising was mostly left to their mothers, until the boys at least began their military training. Girls were mostly left under the guidance of their mothers, with fathers either being the disciplinarian they're sent to when they've been really bad, or the doting figure who pops in and makes a fuss but then leaves them alone for the most part.
However, Eomer was orphaned at a young age, and was robbed of having his own mother and mother, and he always felt great gratitude and affection for those who raised him in their stead, so he was determined to pay it forward and be there for his children. Also, his bond with Eowyn and the responsibility he took for her actually left him feeling more prepared to raise his daughters than his son. He'd already taken care of one little girl, and a rather difficult little girl at that.
Gandalf's lecture about what Eowyn went through as a woman in Rohan, and his desire to correct what he felt he got wrong with Eowyn, made him particularly keen as to prevent his daughters from feeling caged in, and he also never wanted them to feel overlooked or under-appreciated in favour of Elfwine, so he always put in as much time with them as he did Elfwine, and encouraged them to dream and have ambitions.
As a result, Elfwine sometimes felt like Eomer's least liked child, because while the girls never got less attention from Eomer, Elfwine did have greater pressure put on him from his preparation to be king. And while Eomer, in his attempts to keep his daughters from experiencing the depression his sister did, would be full of encouragement for all the things they could do with their lives (travel, become healers, loremasters, raise castles etc...) Elfwine's destiny was decided for him, and Eomer always impressed his duty on him.
When Elfwine expressed these feelings to Eomer, Eomer tried his hardest to be supportive, but having the crown thrust onto him unexpectedly, he didn't know what it was like to be raised to be a king, and one of the reasons why Eomer put so much emphasis on his training because he didn't want Elfwine to feel as unprepared as he did.
Elfwine and Eomer managed to get past these feelings, (it never caused a major blow up between them, just some lingering resentment on Elfwine's part) and Elfwine appreciated what his father was trying to do, and he accepted his duty, but he was closer to Lothiriel because of it. Temperament wise, the girls were much closer to Eomer (loud, proud and bluff) while Elfwine was more like his mother, so they bonded a little on feeling like outsiders (loved and happy outsiders, but outsiders nonetheless.)
Lothiriel didn't actually know how to feel about Eomer being so involved in raising their children, at first. In Dol Amroth, Fathers only got involved to such a degree when they felt the mother was doing something wrong. Eomer's involvement with their first child (a daughter) made her feel defensive, and she worried it was because Eomer and the court saw her as an unwelcome "Gondorean" influence on the child. This particularly upset her, because she truly loved Rohan, and hated any suggestion that she wasn't seen as "Rohirric enough" by the people.
After coming to understand Eomer's reasons for being so involved in their children's lives, she came to appreciate it, and loved him all the more for it. Especially as (even with the nurses helping her) having Eomer be an active partner in child raising meant she had opportunities to continue doing much of what she loved before she was a mother.
In contrast to Eomer, Eowyn struggled bonding with her son, at first. Elboron's birth was painful, and left her unable to have more children (something she was pretty relieved about to be honest). The recovery time was long, and she suffered from post-partem depression afterwards. Gradually, she bonded with Elboron, especially as he started to become more active and develop more of a personality, and when he was about one year old and joined her on horseback for the first time (she carried him in a sling) and he laughed, that was when she really had that "this is my son" moment.
Faramir meanwhile took to fatherhood like a duck to water, and adored Elboron from the minute he felt him kick in Eowyn's belly. He knew that Eowyn struggled to bond with Elboron, and was patient with her and encouraged her to give it time and let it come naturally, which did help Eowyn a lot.
Sometimes, Eowyn felt doubtful about her skills as a mother. Her mother died when she was young, and she was raised mostly by men, and she never got hit with the "motherly instincts" it seemed people promised would come to her. Everything she knew about raising Elboron, she had to learn. This was actually greatly to her and Elboron's benefit. Her method parenting of him was formed to suit their personalities and their circumstances, and Eowyn never felt she could rest on her laurels that "she was mother and knew best", and she saw Elboron as a person in his own right first and foremost, and her and Faramir's son second. As a result, through study and trial and error, she developed a very keen understanding of Elboron and how to treat him.
Faramir was perhaps the more actively involved parent of the two. He took the biggest hand in arranging Elboron's education (although he consulted Eowyn and when she insisted on something, like his horse riding lessons, she was deferred to.) He was also the one who spoke to Elboron when he needed someone to speak to, who offered vocal and physical comfort, and encouraged him to open up about his thoughts and feelings. In contrast, while Faramir was the one Elboron went to when he needed someone to talk to, Eowyn was the one he went to when he just needed to be. When he needed someone he could just ride next to or work in the garden in silence.
I love this so much
Eomer = boss girl dad
In his heart, Imrahil adopted Eomer and Eowyn before there was even a hint of romance between them and his daughter and nephew.
He saw Eowyn on death's door, having nearly died defending her uncle, and Eomer, driven to despair as the seeming passing of his sister, and breaking into a speed walk when it turns out she's alive and in the Houses of Healing, Imrahil sees the pair of them, orphans three times over, and is like "they're my children now".
Random questions . . . any thoughts about the relationship between Eowyn and her parents? Or about her and Eomer growing up?
Thanks for the ask! 💛 This is at least two months late, I'm sure. I saw the notification, told myself I'd think up some headcanons, and then the summer flashed by in a blink.
Let's go with a little of both, and let's pretend that I can read and didn't miss the "growing up" part and focus most of my headcanons on Éowyn and Éomer's relationship as adults.
One of Éowyn’s fondest memories from her childhood is of her father setting her astride his mare and leading her around the paddock outside their home, while her mother calls encouraging words from outside the fence. Her father gives most of his attention to Éomer, so Éowyn cherishes the moments she spends with him. It’s one of the happiest moments she remembers before tragedy strikes.
She resents the despair her mother falls into after Éomund’s death, both because her mother pays less attention to her and because she feels it makes her mother weak. When she grows older and begins to experience the same despair, she resents it and works to shape it into cold determination so that she may not be thought to be weak.
She resents, too, that she must become a nursemaid to her mother (and that Éomer is not beholden to do so) until her aunts arrive and lighten the load, but feels guilty for feeling so about her mother and feels that a better daughter wouldn’t entertain such feelings.
One of the bright spots during her mother’s illness is her aunt Trewhild teaching her the basics of wielding a sword, during breaks from taking care of her mother. With a sword in her hands, Éowyn finally feels like she's no longer powerless.
Just before her mother dies, she gives Éowyn a knife that her own mother gave to her and tells her to always keep it with her. Later, when Gríma stalks the hall outside her bedroom in the late hours of night, she takes strength from her mother’s knife, tucked beneath her pillow (have to thank @hobbitwrangler for this one!).
As much as she loves her parents, she resents just a little that her childhood was stolen from her and she was made to grow up too soon. Théoden tries to provide her with a childhood in Meduseld, but Éowyn never quite feels like a child again after her parents' deaths.
When Théoden falls under Saruman’s thrall, Éowyn is reminded of how she felt when her mother was sick—powerless to heal her, resentful at being shut inside and having to be her mother’s nursemaid, and resentful that she feels that way she does. The intervening years don't make the emotions any easier to bear.
Éowyn always worries when Éomer rides off that one day he, like their father, may never return.
Upon Éomer’s banishment from Edoras, he quietly commands one of the few household men that he knows to be loyal to him and not under Gríma’s influence to discreetly watch Éowyn’s door at night. Gríma soon finds out and has the man thrown out of Meduseld.
After Éowyn returns to Edoras for Théoden’s funeral, Éomer and Éowyn have many long conversations about the mistreatment she endured at the hands of her family and its role in her suffering and despair.
Since Éowyn and Faramir refuse to have any weapons displayed in their home, Éomer hangs her sword and broken shield over the door to Meduseld, facing his throne. In time, stories spread among the people of Edoras that the arms of the Lady of the Shield-arm guard Meduseld from harm.
Éomer later changes the laws of succession to stipulate that the crown can pass to male or female heirs.
He is known by all to display a fearsome temper when cases of harassment, assault, rape, or abuse are brought before him, and he codifies strict laws regarding such cases.
Éowyn is widely known to be one of Éomer’s most trusted counselors (along with Lothíriel), such that she is considered an unofficial member of his council, and a seat at the council table is always reserved for her when she visits Meduseld.
Éowyn and Lothíriel get on like a house on fire, which Éomer enjoys most of the time, except for the times when he finds himself on the opposite side of an argument as them and the times when they conspire against him (which happens more frequently than he would like).
Relatedly, whenever Lothíriel is losing an argument, she plays the “Éowyn agrees with me” card, and Éomer is forced to capitulate because he knows his limits, and facing the combined ire of Lothíriel and Éowyn is more than one man can take on.
Éomer names one of his daughters after Éowyn (or gives her a name inspired by Éowyn and her deeds; I haven’t decided yet). Éowyn would likely do the same, but I’m very fond of Elboron being an only child.
Elboron and Elfwine (and his siblings) often spend months at a time living at each other’s homes, learning of the other culture and people they come from. It’s Éowyn’s idea to do so, and the people of Rohan and Gondor appreciate the additional strengthening of the alliance between their realms. The people of Edoras and Emyn Arnen, in particular, are always delighted when the heirs visit and take great joy in teaching them about the other half of their heritage.
Eomer hanging Eowyn's sword and broken shield over the door to Meduseld omg i love it so much
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.
Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)
Please bless me potato of luck
Oh no, my wonder is not "childlike." My whimsy is old. My frivolity is steeped in ancient wisdom.
My silliness is battle worn. My awe at the world has been long forged through trial & tribulation.
I have earned this wonderment. I have protected it for decades against a society that tells me constantly that it should not belong to me.
I was born with wonder, and I have carried it, against all odds, with me through adulthood.
It is not "childlike" by now it is Older than me.
Lothiriel, Princess of Dol Amroth & Queen of Rohan
the lotr trilogy are the best movies on earth but one thing i’ll never forgive them is the complete lack of aragorn and éomer friendship. i know i already made a post abt it but i honestly cannot believe these two talked One time in the movies while in the books they became literal besties. what do you mean they promised they’ll fight together, draw swords together, upon literally their first meeting, then repeated the same promise later again and again. what do you mean “Since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs I have loved you, and that love shall not fail.” what do you mean “And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old.” LIKE HELLO?????
Can I just say how much I enjoy that almost everyone in Lord of the Rings is an adult. Like a grown ass adult. I do realize the hobbits are relatively young for their species, but there’s no chosen one teenagers, they’re not a group of random twenty something’s who also happen to somehow be geniuses, no childlike drama or super honed abilities that have somehow only been developed before high school. Just a bunch of old, weary adults getting shit done, honing their craft after years and years and being badass regardless of age.
Editing for the new folks reblogging: Pippin is the exception this. I mentioned the hobbits are young for their species, with Pippin being the youngest. Still, the main idea is that overall, this isn’t a YA novel with all twenty-something protagonists.
Just read The Two Towers, and right now I am absolutely obsessed with the fact that l, when the company encounters the Riders of Rohan, Eomer is like:
"You're *who*? That's not real, that's a legend."
"Wait, the Lady of the Lake is real and not a fairytale?"
"What the fuck is a hobbit?"
And later when the Riders encounter Ents, everyone is like, "Trees can talk? What the FUCK?"
Look at that face in the picture. That is the face of a person that does not believe any of this fantasy shit. Absolute normal person energy, and I absolutely love this.
Aragorn: You know you can't solve all your problems with a sword.
Eomer: That's what the spear is for.
Poppy: *hugs Tora for the first time*
Tora: The fuck is this?
Poppy: Affection.
Tora: Weird.
Tora:
Tora: Do it again.
I’m a woman. If a man says something misogynistic to me, I’m going to complain about it, and sometimes I’m going to say things like “men are trash.” Do I mean literally every man on the planet? No, there are men I love dearly, namely my father, my stepfather and my brother. But I don’t think I should have to state that on every post where I want to complain about misogyny, and I hope that the “good” men who don’t do the things I’m talking about will understand that I’m not referring to them.
The same applies to racism. I’m white, but I’m not bothered by PoC saying things like “white people are trash" in posts about racism. If I don’t do the things they’re complaining about, I know they don’t mean me, and if I do (if you’re white, some of these posts will apply to you; it’s simply unavoidable), it’s helpful because it forces me to examine my own behavior so I can begin to unlearn my implicit racial biases.
TL;DR I understand why these types of generalizations can feel like a personal attack, but they’re not, and it’s incredibly ignorant and selfish for privileged people to police the way marginalized people talk about their oppression by responding to their posts with “not all men/white people/straight people/etc.”
so in case you’re about to watch a cw television show based in the southwest that’s featuring an episode based on some supposed reservation – or you’ve read anything about the situation on the navajo nation recently – i wanted to share some ways that we all can help the diné (navajo) community beyond kind-of depicting them on television.
today the navajo nation surpassed new york state and new jersey for the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate in the country. that’s 2,304 cases per 100,000 people. 173,600 people live on the navajo nation, roughly. below are a number of organizations & community groups raising money & resources. it would mean so much to me if you’d consider supporting these communities right now - & continue to think about how you can support the indigenous communities near you, & understand the indigenous land you might currently occupy.
the navajo water project helps bring running water to navajo families without, and also helps families pay their water & electricity bills
the adopt an elder project helps feed navajo elders during the pandemic
the navajo health command operations center is the navajo nation’s only official fundraising and donation effort
rez rising is a database of native american small businesses across the southwest
the kinlani mutual aid group is a flagstaff, az based volunteer group collecting supplies
the native american relief fund operated by the native american community foundation provides emergency grants to communities for supplies & more
and a number of community-run fundraising efforts:
northern diné covid relief effort
navajo & hopi families relief fund
native student emergency fund
bluff area mutual aid - supply delivery in utah
navajo nation relief project
if you’re aware of any other legitimate fundraising efforts to help these communities, or the indigenous communities near you, please add them.
the Navajo Water Project also sells blankets and jewelry, and the Adopt an Elder Project sells rugs hand made by Navajo Elders if that appeals to any of you!
This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.
Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.
Poppy: Tora isn’t in love with me!
Quincey: yeah he is.
Gyu: yeah he is.
Alice: yeah he is.
Tora: YEAH HE IS.
From The Washington Post. Damn
Do not let them make you numb.
