I like to keep my Tumblr Silmarillion-focused, but enough people have read or seen an adaptation of Pride & Prejudice that I don't feel bad reccing take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all by @helloquotemyfoot. 26.5k, Teen, AU where Christian English marriages are triads. Elizabeth/Darcy/Charlotte Lucas.
Marriage in England has always been made up of three spouses, in a mirror to the Holy Trinity. When Fitzwilliam Darcy comes to Hertfordshire and finds the enchanting Elizabeth Bennet, there's no real reason he should not offer for herâbut, typically, no one accounted for Charlotte Lucas, and things unfold rather differently than anyone at first imagined.
The worldbuilding is a romp! Each chapter begins with an in-universe epigraph. For example, the first chapter's is excerpted from On the Bill for the Formal Partnership of Two Persons, In Anticipation of a Full Marriage, lately introduced to Parliament, which--*swoons*. The prose is also excellent, the characters--especially Charlotte Lucas--are wonderful, and the addition of a third spouse is a fun shake-up that keeps you wondering throughout (What is Darcy's living parent like? Who will be the third spouse of Jane and Bingley? How will the deal with Mr. Collins play out in this universe?).
Seriously, if it sounds up your alley, give it a shot.
spring 2026 in review, silm Tolkien fandom edition
Every three months, I like to create a little round-up of my fandom experiences from the past season: fics I've written, great fics I've read, events I've participated in, and other milestones and notes. It's been a nice way to keep track of the highlights and raise awareness for some great fanworks that people are creating around the world.
Favorite fic I wrote this season: This might be the recency bias talking, but I'm extremely proud of The Sting of Salt and Pity, the fic I wrote as a fill for the May 2026 prompts in Leaf & Lore and LTC, and MerMay. Original female Elf character (a Bad Mom of Arda), Mature, 1.1k, horror themes, creator chose not to use archive warnings, see fic on ao3 for detailed tags and warnings.
Favorite fic I read this season: The Swan-Road by @glitterlessgold, Amrod-centric, General, 8.5k. A post-Losgar fic, not crispy Amrod, not toasted Amrod, but a new kind of Amrod we're calling BLANCHED AMROD!! I loved this fic so much. The imaginativeness, the grief, the inevitability & the Adventure of it all! Amrod talks to his boat much as Tom Hanks talks to Wilson the volleyball in Cast Away, and it's fantastic. (Btw, the author's Glorthelion WIP is also excellent!)
Complete roundup of fic and miscellany under the cut.
More fic recs:
A Florid Affair by @polutrope, Daeron/Maglor, Explicit, 3.7k, Sex Pollen (or is it)
Grounded by @amorbidcorvid, Celebrian/Elrond, Explicit, 2.5k, eldritch Elrond and FEATHERS this is so soothing and hot
Hand Over Heart by @a-tehta, Fingon/Maedhros's Severed Hand, Mature, 1.9k, this is so so funny i am giggling again just reading the tags and summary
History Obliterates by @regicidal-optimism, ensemble about the Third Kinslaying at Sirion, Teen, 1.3k, unreliable narrators
Hunger Inherited by @gaydhros, Fingon/Turgon, Explicit, 3.6k, guided masturbation, a brother sometimes just has to help another brother out like that
Metrology by @infiniteriver, Annatar-centric, General, 2.2k, Annatar invents the metric system!
Pet by Anonymous, Maedhros/OFC, Explicit, 1.5k, archive warnings for major character death & rape/non-con. This is such an unsettling and unforgettable fic. Maedhros keeps a tiny woman as a caged pet in Himring. I can't stop thinking about this story. I want to respect the rights of Anon but also I am just dying to crack open their brain and find more of their work
The Proper Bride-Price by @irnina, Celeborn/Celebrian, Celebrian/Maglor, Explicit, 6.4k, weird voyeurism and invented ritual sex practices. Incest!!
Sing for the Damage by @perchingpasserine, Maedhros/Maglor, Teen, 3.6k, angsty kidnap fam. SO good
the wittold's wife by @thepastisaroadmap, Curufin's Wife/Sons of FĂ«anor, Explicit, 5.0k, creator chose not to use archive warnings, wife-sharing, weird Noldorin sex rituals
Ficlets (which I am defining as works under 1k) and drabbles I wrote this spring:
Gil. Ga. Lad., CĂrdan/Gil-galad, Teen, 0.2k, an exercise in which I asked myself how could i take the intro of Lolita and make it Silmfic lol
I can't tell where your hair ends and mine begins, Marigol/Rose Cotton, Mature, 0.9k, hobbit femslash in a hayloft
Moonflowers, Earwen-centric, General, 0.1k
Naps in Alqualonde, Self-insert, Teen, 0.6k, written for Rare Kink Buffet 2026
nothing but the dark, Aredhel-centric, General, 0.1k
The Stone Eggs, Nerdanel-centric, General, 0.1k, Bad Moms of Arda
Longer fics I wrote:
Darling it's better down where it's wetter, Maglor-centric (well, Crablor-centric), Teen, 1.1k, Little Mermaid fusion fic for Crablor Day.
Freaky Friday, Aredhel/Fingolfin, Explicit, 3.5k, warnings for Rape/Non-Con and Underage.
Major Triad, Daeron/Maglor/Reader, Mature, 1.1k, a voyeur reader fic for Daemags week and polu.
The Queer Forest, Glorfindel/Treebeard, Explicit, 9.0k, WIP with 4/6 chapters posted, modern AU with Human Treebeard (or is he?), Huorns, dendrophilia & plantacles
Slain at Swanhaven, Galadriel-centric, Mature, 1.8k, Major Character Death, Canon-Divergence AU, Make It Worse
Firsts, milestones, and miscellany:
5 new ship tag inaugurations: Amrod/Glorfindel, Aredhel/Fingolfin, Glorfindel/Treebeard, Daeron/Maglor/Reader, Marigol/Rose Cotton
1 new character inaugurations: Marigol
1 fandom inauguration: The Hunt for Gollum (2027)
I reached 50 fics on AO3!
I discovered the Rare Kink Buffet which is just an absolute treasure trove of imagination and creativity. And may have claimed uhh 300 or so prompts đ€Ł
Events: the April 2026 Leaf & Lore was a wonderfully motivating community event as usual! I also joined TRSB26 as a writer for the first time, I wrote for Crablor Day & Daemags Day, and I participated in SWG Instadrabbling, the May LTC microfic challenge, and the May Leaf & Lore writing challenge.
This is my fourth "Season in Review" post, meaning that I'm rounding the corner on one full year as an actively sharing Tolkien fic writer! You probably won't hear me shutting up any time soon. Thanks everybody for making it fun đ«¶â€ïž
âSince you are my son and the days are grim I will not speak softly to youâŠâ
latest completed commission, featuring Morwen shortly after her arrival in Doriath. a quick shoutout to @outofangband, for their posts on Morwen have had me rotating her in my brain forever and overall very much helped create an image of her that I really drew on for this, especially this post which I really loved, about her general dismissiveness of the elves, most specifically and delightedly, taking a âlol lmaoâ attitude to Fingon and Turgon themselves.
But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?
The Lord of the Rings, Galadrielâs Song
It happened so fast.Â
After AlqualondĂ«, Artanis looks only onward. There can be no return, not after what theyâve done.  And what would await them? Only darkness, only sorrow.Â
Not even the curse and prophecy spoken by the dark figure standing high upon a rock could compel her to reverse course. Nor the abandonment by the faithless Fëanåro and his sons, the stolen ships that vanished into the unmeasured night.
She will not turn back, defeated, begging at the feet of the Valar for pardon.
Angst and Tragedy, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Flight of the Noldor (Tolkien), First Kinslaying | Kinslaying at Alqualondë (Tolkien), Helcaraxë (Tolkien), Canon-Typical Violence, Grief/Mourning, Guilt, Non-Linear Narrative, Make It Worse, mining the footnotes of the History of Middle-earth for the richest veins of angsty gold
like the betrayalâs always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didnât matter. someone discards you because they didnât give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say âI love you. I would make the same choice again.â You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.
âI thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.â <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.
âI thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldnât.â <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.
I think my funniest take on maglor is when I imagine him as a morose waif well before anything bad ever happened to him. He was the emo kid with his preppy family. He was well known for writing laments in the middle of valinor, a place that's notoriously lamentless. There was a whole year in which he refused to speak unless it was in poem or song. There was an even longer period of time in which he refused to put his hair up or wear any adornments when performing because it apparently distracted from the musicâhe'd just roll into concerts looking like the grudge but kept being invited onstage because he was just that good. I need him to be maedhros and celegorm's (admittedly incredibly talented) loser brother that gets dragged out with them because they adore him.
fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.
"Gilraen watches a delighted grin spread over Aragornâs face as Elrond finally allows him to lay stitches over the smallest cut, watches him copy exactly what the healer was demonstrating on a larger wound, down to the cadence of his breath. She watches as he follows Elrond around the room, pauses at other bedsides, clasps his hands behind his back every time Elrond does the same.
He looks like a busy little fish, she thinks fondly, scurrying around with his arms full of basins and bandages, an unwinding roll of dressing tucked into his belt like a tail. Like an obliging little minnow. A minnow, who swims beside the whale and takes shelter in the vastness of its shadow, not realising the shadow races towards icy waters no minnow can hope to survive." - A VERY CURIOUS THING
most of my art time this month is taken up by commissions and trsb so i wasnât going to draw anything detailed, but i found time to paint Gilraen as per recent brainrot. i wanted her to look very not-elven, young and rosy and hearty, because girl gets plenty of fresh air running around in pursuit of the gremlin that was young aragorn. featuring @peasant-player vintage berry pattern making another appearance. also click âread moreâ if you want to see this mocked up as a pakistani tv serial poster bc iâm still crying over @seaemberthesecondâs post
my urdu is probably not so correct but my commitment is 20/20
as tax for enjoying this cute little drawing, you will now be enduring my THOUGHTS and TAKES.
Okay so Iâve been finding Faramir a very interesting figure recently when looking at the racialisation of the Haradrim through a âshadow of Gondorian imperialismâ lens when researching for my fic. Which is to say, in the context of race-in-Tolkien and the context of what is coming in the Fourth Age, I actually find him one of the most ominous figures looming over the upcoming Fourth Age conquest/enforced surrender of Harad/taking of Umbar⊠not because heâs bad or villainous, but because he manifestly is not, and is kind and good and gentle.Â
Because the argument for empire is always most dangerous in the mouth of its kindest defender, and a reading of his âI do not love the arrow for its swiftness etc etc, I love that which it defendsâ quote is just⊠so intriguing when thinking about what happens afterwards, when the orcs will very soon be all gone yet the Haradrim continue to live, have children, maintain economically useful territory (Havens of Umbar) that in the eyes of Gondor âneedsâ to be taken. And Faramirâs choices in the Fourth Age could have consequences that are either incredibly devastating or, potentially, somewhat hopeful.Â
So firstly Iâve realised this guy is actually the most useful character across the entire legendarium in terms of deciphering Westerly racial attitudes towards the Haradrim (yeah the First Age Elves were kind of racist about Ulfang and the other men from the East but also First Age Elves would have been racist about a bumblebee with one extra stripe so ngl their opinions on this front mean very little to me â ïž).Â
Obviously Tolkienâs own deeply conservative views on race are prevalent across the legendarium but itâs exactly that which makes it difficult to pick out, in a Watsonian sense, the individual racial opinions of the Westerly peoples of Middle Earth aside from what the Hobbits swiftly develop from saplings in Scouring of the Shire. And so it is in the section of The Two Towers beginning with Frodo and Sam running into Faramir and his men where we get the majority of any actual dialogue about the Haradrim, as opposed to omniscient narration. Where due to the amount of interiority and political speech afforded to Faramir on this matter, we actually get to see the ideology rather than just its consequences.Â
â...they (the Stewards) made a truce with the proud peoples of the North, who often had assailed us, men of fierce valour, but our kin from afar off, unlike the wild Easterlings or the cruel Haradrim."
(Book 2 Ch V, THE TWO TOWERS)
And itâs actually in the above quote from Faramir that we see it implied that the Gondorians consider the men of RhĂ»n and Harad as inferior/separate even beyond the military sense, because obviously Gondor wasnât exactly friendly with the men of the North either (which he straight up says) and yet they count as kin. And yes, I also wondered whether he might just be referring to the Edain/Blessed Men, but that wouldnât make too much sense since he obviously married Eowyn, whose lineage is not Edain/exiled Numenorean but AtanatĂĄri, ie âmiddle menâ (more on this later).Â
And this isnât just a single moment. I also noticed another quote by Faramir when I was reading âThe Wretched of Middle Earthâ by Charles E Mills (brilliant essay, go read, etc), where Faramir states: ââŠthe enemy increases and we decrease. We are a failing people, a springless autumn⊠childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry.â And again, this language of once-great races decaying as the barbarians bay at the gates is prevalent in a racial ideology that was present in Tolkienâs time, but also absolutely present in contemporary racial discourse, and especially so in Western, Central and Northern Europe, where I can point to you multiple cases of this exact language being used in present-day Germany regarding immigration even by seemingly liberal-minded sources.
Now this isnât a personal judgement of Faramirâs character by any means, and Iâm not at all saying heâs an individually terrible character or what not: quite the contrary. Itâs clearly just a product of circumstance, in being tasked with defending what was essentially the border at the time, he and his men pretty much have the viewpoint of any border guard now or then, ie a tendency to demonify/dehumanise those outside it in order to keep the artificial border artificially sealed. And considering that border was also a border with orcs, by whose hand so many Gondorian men have died, who are (in-universe) absolutely seen to be inhuman/subhuman/âcreatedâ... it perfectly gels with him being the one who narratively establishes the racial hierarchy, in which âmen of darknessâ are seen as adjacent to the subhuman.Â
[Sam] was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the manâs name was, and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peaceâŠ
[Book 2 Ch IV, THE TWO TOWERS]
This was actually something that irritated me about the Jackson films: the scene above where Sam in the book looks at the corpse of a Haradrim soldier, wonders if he ever wanted to leave home, what lies and threats must have brought him so far. And itâs quite literally the only moment in the books where a single shred of empathy is shown towards the âswarthy menâ on the other side of the war, yet in the films that scene and dialogue was given to Faramir who says it about a very young Haradrim soldier. I assume it was to establish him as kind/soft-hearted from the moment he appears on screen, an impulse I understand (even though his character establishes it multiple times with his other actions), but I just think itâs pretty unrealistic for a military commander whose men actually did the killing to say such a thing. Whereas itâs perfectly characteristic coming from Sam, a figure who just really fucking wants to go home, who knows very little about the men from the South, and in terms of his class position as well, is well placed to understand people being forced to do things they would not normally wish to do.Â
Like I said in my first paragraph, the argument for empire is always most dangerous in the mouth of its kindest defender, and Faramir is Gondor's most thoughtful defender: a man who explicitly rejects the crude form of imperial ambition, who tells Frodo in that he would not have Minas Tirith be a âmistress of many slaves, nay, not even a kind mistress of willing slavesâ, and who makes this declaration in the same conversation in which he describes a taxonomy of Men that places the Haradrim categorically outside the circle of kinship of Men.Â
He disavows the slave-mistress model of empire while maintaining the ideology that produces it, and so very clearly demonstrating the cognitive structure of the liberal imperialist: the rejection of empire's worst expression alongside the preservation of the framework of racial and civilisational hierarchy, the language which makes empire's gentler expressions feel less like violence and more like stewardship, the natural responsibility of the high toward the lesser.Â
And Iâm not pulling this out of my ass, because this is again seen in Gondorâs history with the Haradrim. Thereâs a tribute system that Tolkien mentions almost in passing: Haradrim chieftains were compelled to pay tribute to Gondor as well as send their sons to be raised in Gondor's courts following Hyarmendacil I's conquests in the early Third Age. Which reads, against the backdrop of the racial taxonomy Faramir establishes here, as darker than standard militaristic tribute systems. The practice of taking the sons of conquered rulers and raising them at the conquering court is obviously ancient and widespread: the Ottomans did it with the devshirme, Rome did it with the children of client kings, the British did versions of it across the nineteenth century in India and Africa etc etc⊠in each case the stated rationale was acculturation, which essentially produced a leadership class that would govern their people in a way acceptable to the imperial centre.
And similarly, with what is said by Faramir read alongside that moment of Gondorâs history, itâs clear that the Gondorian court doing the acculturating held an explicitly articulated position that the people being acculturated were not kin, were not of the circles of higher men, were inherently âcruelâ âmen of darknessâ. And so these boys would have learned Westron, Gondorian law and custom, the history of their own people through the chronicle of their conquerors, essentially learned to see themselves through the eyes of a civilisation that considered them subhuman.Â
That this policy resoundingly failed, ie that the Haradrim returned to Sauron's service repeatedly across the Third Age and that by the War of the Ring they were marching in force toward Mordor is, from within Gondor's own framework as well as that of the Oxford-educated early 20th century conservative, inexplicable, because the framework has no mechanism for understanding violent resistance as a rational response to the âkindnessâ done to the âlesser racesâ. From Gondor and the cultural centres of the âirlâ imperial core (see again: Oxford), the trajectory makes perfect sense: that people who were conquered, tributarised, had their sons taken, categorised as inherently lesser by the culture doing all of the above, would ultimately turn once more to Sauron.
And this choice is of course intended to be incomprehensible to both the assumed reader and the Gondorians themselves, because to us itâs narratively clear that Sauronâs deeds were monstrous and his service was destructive both physically and environmentally. Which is why the trajectory makes perfect sense to both audiences: the Haradrim, the Oriental stand-ins, make such a choice because they are ontologically irrational. They will always choose evil, because that is their inherent nature, because they are subhuman, only a few steps removed from beings created for the purpose of evil. Where the tragedy is that everyone had reasons to choose what they did, and frankly Iâm not a big Sauron guy at all but Iâll be honest, if all my sons and fathers and everyone was sent to the Gondorian courts to be taught that they suck ass and that Iâm bad at Westron class because Iâm adjacent to an orc, I might just reconsider and be like okay then fuck it if you bitches say Iâm an orc then you know what, Iâm an orc.Â
Anyway, that taxonomy passage and the childless lords one are some of if not the most explicit statements of Gondorian racial thinking anywhere in the books, and I found it so fascinating how it comes from Gondorâs most morally admirable character. Faramir divides Men into the High (NĂșmenĂłreans and their kin), the Middle Peoples (those who have had contact with Elvish influence and the Edain tradition and are simply not Edain due to geographical reasons or choices made in the Beleriand days), and the men of darkness (the Haradrim and the Easterlings explicitly, those who repeatedly served the Enemy of their own free will).
And itâs such an interesting statement because it converts a geopolitical and historical situation, where peoples born within Sauron's sphere of influence across many generations, conscripted into his service by the full apparatus of a dark lord's coercive and violent power (do we believe he wouldnât use orcs to quell rebellion within the Haradrim?), into a statement about moral character/will, something essential instead of contingent. And thatâs imperial ideology in a nutshell, where the historical is turned into the ontological, so that the people on the âwrongâ side of a military power relationship appear to occupy said âwrongâ position because of what they are instead of where, or who, or why they are there.
And the reason I called this âominousâ with reference to the Fourth Age instead of just interesting is because of Faramirâs institutional position after the Ring War. Heâs the Prince of Ithilien, ie recovered border territory that would become a frontier zone due to its adjacency to the near south, as well as Steward of Gondor under Aragorn. And due to this position, where Aragorn is obviously now in charge of multiple administrative zones and aside from his Thorongil ship-burning adventures in Umbar, had little prolonged contact with the Haradrim unlike Faramir whose adult life was spent maintaining that border, would make it very likely that Faramir would be made one of the primary architects of the relationship between the Reunited Kingdom and the peoples it is expanding into, ie the enforced surrender of the Haradrim and the retaking of Umbar.
Where the man who builds the policy toward Harad holds a considered view that the Haradrim freely chose âdarknessâ over and over and are not kin, who is a good man who would not be cruel about it but thoughtful and just and entirely convinced of the justice of what heâs doing, genuinely in love not with the violence but with the White City that must be protected. And I find that chilling because cruelty in a text that abhors wanton cruelty can be identified and condemned and ultimately is meant to produce shame and repentance. But the version of imperial ideology as seen in the Faramirs of the world only engenders more Faramirs, each one more and more considerate, humane, and better able to articulate justifications for the same outcome.Â
And like I gestured to earlier, his relationship with Ăowyn, the hopeful and triumphant nature of that relationship budding in war like no other has (with A&Aâs relationship obviously having started decades prior) just makes this even more interesting. Faramir's taxonomy places the Rohirrim in the middle tier, so not the High Men of NĂșmenĂłrean blood, but the Middle Peoples who came under Elvish influence and are adjacent to but not fully within the circle of the Edain, though they are not fully kin in the way the DĂșnedain are kin. The implication of the Gondorian racial categories, ie that intermarriage between DĂșnedain and Haradrim would represent a crossing of a civilisational and biological boundary, obviously sits in kind of, er, uncomfortable proximity to his marriage to a woman who is not of NĂșmenĂłrean blood either and is one of those Middle Peoples distinguished from the High.
And yet the racial framework doesnât collapse under this: partly because of course, the Middle Peoples are viewed as slightly âlesserâ but not of darkness, where they are absolutely still human and viewed as almost-equals, where a liaison represents hope and progress⊠and partly because the racial categorisation just accommodates Ăowyn through the mechanism that such frameworks always use to accommodate their exceptions, which is to accept the individual while maintaining the category, extending to a specific person the humanity that their designation withholds.Â
Which is something that happens in the book itself⊠think again about that single poignant moment of empathy extended to the Haradrim youth through the character of Samwise, in a book that so adamantly maintains the impermeability of racial boundaries⊠or how ârace mixingâ is seen as hopeful when it comes to Sindar/Noldor or beautiful but tragic when it comes to specific cases of Elf/Mortal romances, yet the racial boundaries are never broken with the âunpalatableâ races. Faramir looks at Ăowyn and sees Ăowyn, looks at the Haradrim and sees the men of darkness, and the distance between those two operations is where the Fourth Age begins.
The tragedy is that Faramir is, by every measure, the best Gondor has to offer, and just makes me think if this guy cannot see it, the structural likelihood of anyone else seeing it is not high. Tolkien leaves him at the end of the primary narrative as Prince of Ithilien, rebuilding the border territory, married to Ăowyn, presiding over what is presented as a kind of grace note of hope after catastrophe. And there absolutely is real hope in him because he is not Denethor, not someone driven to madness, the decaying custodian of a city turned inward on its own glory, and his rejection of the slave-mistress model of empire is not nothing, and is imo the slender thread on which the Fourth Age's better possibilities hang. Because he is a person who repeatedly chooses goodness, always reaches for the less cruel option.Â
But the taxonomy is also still built into the foundations of everything he will build when Gondor goes south. So perhaps Fourth Age Gondor will have Faramir's values and Faramir's categories simultaneously, except the categories will outlast the values because categories are structural and values are personal. And so itâs just as possible that the children of Haradrim chieftains will once again be sent north to be raised as hostages in the courts of Gondor, and the only question to ask would be âwhat lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home?âÂ
Anyway I think ElenwĂ« convinced Turgon to cross the Ice. This solves two problems for me: (a) why Turgon was opposed to FĂ«anor in the big Oath-swearing, Finweans-have-an-argument episode but chooses to go anyway, and (b) why he builds Tirion 2.0 in Middle-earth. He never wanted to be there. He went for ElenwĂ«âs sake, and now sheâs dead, and he wants to go home. (Also it gives ElenwĂ« some fun agency.)
Then they are re-embodied and are furious with each other. They donât want to be, but they are.
Wow, um. I posted this half-asleep at 4:30 AM and then did not look at my Tumblr for thirteen hours. I did not realize the people were hungry for this Elenwë/Turgon dynamic but I am GLAD to discover it.
Anyway I think ElenwĂ« convinced Turgon to cross the Ice. This solves two problems for me: (a) why Turgon was opposed to FĂ«anor in the big Oath-swearing, Finweans-have-an-argument episode but chooses to go anyway, and (b) why he builds Tirion 2.0 in Middle-earth. He never wanted to be there. He went for ElenwĂ«âs sake, and now sheâs dead, and he wants to go home. (Also it gives ElenwĂ« some fun agency.)
Then they are re-embodied and are furious with each other. They donât want to be, but they are.
Hello everyone and welcome to another year of Glorthelion week! An entire week dedicated to Glorfindel and Ecthelion relationship.
The event will run on Tumblr from November 16th to November 22nd. All creations are welcome, as long as it is created by you. Don't forget to tag #glorthelionweek and mention the blog (to make sure I can see your creation in case tags don't work).
Prompts are not mandatory! You can follow them, be inspired by them or let your imagination go wild and create whatever you want! Event rules can be found here.
Prompts 2026:
âł Day one: A Glance across the Square | The Bells of Festivals | Gifts of the Heart
âł Day two: Words in the Dark | Following the Star | The Weight of the Sword
âł Day three: Silver and Gold | Sun and Moon | The Roar of the Waterfall
âł Day four: Silver Flutes | The Language of Flowers | Water Mirrors
âł Day five: A Final Glance | Entrusted Secrets | "I will find you again"
âł Day six: Ashes and Sorrow | Waiting in Mandos | Forever Changed
âł Day seven: Beyond the Circles of the World | Constellations | The Promise Kept
