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[slightnettles]

my AO3s: Adlanth (Silmarillion) and slight_nettles (Rings of Power)

tag: my fic

Recent(ish) fics masterlist:

Silm

Among the reeds. Tuor & Elwing and assorted Edain. 6.2K, G.

One Who Holds. Elrond & Easterling OFC. 3.5K, G.

Guest. Morwen. 2.3K, G.

Compass. Aerin. 4.6K, Mature.

Eluchíl. Thranduil x Elrond, background Thranduil x Dior (unrequited). 3.4K, Explicit.

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[slightnettles]

Agree with the sentiment but the Tolkien 'quote' ('Evil cannot create...') is not actually a quote! Yes, he did express similar ideas, but he absolutely did not phrase it like that and I'm sick of seeing this particular sentence (which as far as I know originated on TVTropes) trotted out as if it were an actual quotation... Talk about mindless distortion...

[uvanym]

sky’s embrace 🌟

[slightnettles]

when the earth was laid upon her they carved on the Stone: Here lies also Morwen Edelwen, while some sang in the old tongue the laments that long ago had been made for those of their people who had fallen on the March far beyond the Mountains.

The War of the Jewels.

[p9fttt]

all time favourite movies:

petite maman (2021), dir. céline sciamma

[nessa007]

[denisetse-share]

[slightnettles]

I was tagged by @deckofmanymore for the WIP game, thanks! And by the way I know I missed other tags - sorry about that, I'm terrible that way.

Here's a bit from the current one, then, all very raw and terrible, especially so because I've been thinking about this one for so long and yet I am struggling with it. It's Children of Húrin but very AU but that's the fun part. I've no idea when I'll manage to wrangle it into any sort of readable thing, if ever, but ah well.

Gwindis leads the mortal to the shore. The sand is damp and cold underfoot, through the strips of leather and cloth she has tied around her feet - counting herself lucky, too, that she managed to make them, for the Orcs wanted them barefoot, even down in the mines. With a sting, she remembers Nellas's shoes - pretty shoes of red leather, the ends curling up. Impractical, she had thought then, too easily seen in the woods, yet perhaps better than the rags she had; and Nellas, seeing her feet cut and bruised, had offered them to her. She had refused; now the red shoes remain on Nellas's dead feet. She bends down and drinks. The water is cold but pure, bracing. She closes her eyes, and could almost weep. The mortal stands behind her, unseeing, unmoving. She takes a little water in her cupped hand, brings it up to the girl's lips. 'Drink,' she says. Her voice is a rough, crackling bark. The woman obeys. She obeys; she drinks. She closes her eyes too, and stands there shivering; then she opens her eyes again, and they are red-rimmed and full of tears. The mortal moves, now; she kneels on the sand, recking little of the water that seeps into her clothes; she kneels and drinks and drinks and drinks. Then she looks up, and looks at Gwindis, and sees her. 'Neithan,' she says. 'Gorthol.' A rough croak, and then she wipes at her tears, kneels there red-cheeked and red-eyed. She smiles, somehow. 'Lalaith, but you must not call me that. Many times, you asked me for my name, and I could not answer you. Yet now I tell you: all these are mine.' 'Which shall I use?' 'None,' says the girl. 'Call me Urwen, Húrin's daughter.'

tagging with zero pressure (all the more so because I'm the worst at this) @that-angry-noldo @malkaleh @assortedvariety

[slightnettles]

Arphent Rían Tuorna: man agorech? Sí il chem en i naugrim en ir Ellath thor den ammen.

And Rían said to Tuor: What have we done? Now all the earth of the dwarves and the Elves will shun us.

From the 'Túrin wrapper'.

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[sarafacet]

Severian is somehow all of them

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[littlegentlewoman]

Earendil with his twin babies

[undeadhousewife]

[reliably-derogaffectionate]

nerd hungry feed him 2gb eels

[ulmondil]

Rían and Aerin 🌻

[ulmondil]

Elrond and Elros hanging out with Great Grandad Annael ♡

They're making friends with an intertidal spider and attempting to build her a nice house (as the twins have temporarily forgotten that intertidal spiders tend to build webs, and Annael isn't saying anything).

[rana-temporaria]

Cause like. Listen. Its an absolute tragedy and horrific that Celegorm's servants left Eluréd and Elurín in the woods. Objectively awful and im not saying its not but im thinking very much about how they (and Elwing, though she survives and makes it to the Havens) are the child victims most focused on in the kinslayings but its highly unlikely that they were the only child victims, at the absolute bare minimum children died due to both kinslayings, i mean fuck its the fall of cities. People die when cities fall. Lack of food, water, injuries left untreated, harsh conditions with no shelter and honestly I don't think Eluréd and Elurín were the only children who were murdered/abandoned/lost nor was Elwing the only child to live with the trauma and terror of what happened only to face it again at the Havens. But we hear their stories because (they're narratively important) they're royalty. I cant help but wonder about all the non-royal/noble children and what happened to them. Maedhros searched for Eluréd and Elurín but was there a search for non royal children?

[kisses-in-the-void]

One of the reasons why I can't stand the "kidnap family" and the idea that it somehow served as a "redemption" for the Feanorians.

You can't redeem yourself for mass murder by taking care of two children when dozens, if not hundreds, of other children were left orphaned as a result of your actions.

And you'd think that such a "super progressive leftist fandom" would remember that kids without royal blood are just as important, but nope!!!!

Zero. Literally zero attention is paid to them.

[kisses-in-the-void]

tags by @zumurruds, because this definitely shouldn't be left without the possibility of being reblogged.

#zero doubt in my mind every single feanorian has killed multiple children in their lives.#they were behind 4 kinslayings. 3 of which were major populations containing children who never recovered from it.#maglor feeling pity and later growing affection for his child hostages does not in any way redeem him or his brothers of their crimes#especially since the moral thing to do would have been 1) not to kinslay in the first place 2) not take child hostages away from their home#and the people they loved who could impart on them their history and culture unblemished 3) surrender them to gil’galad#or any other elven host immediately for their own wellbeing and safety.#forcing his child captives to trauma bond to him was an act of irreversible harm not love.#they lost out on a true childhood. they lost their history and culture and friends and people overnight. it rendered them incapable of#ruling any sindarin/iathrim faction afterwards or be truly accepted as leader as dior was because they were raised by the enemy.#furthermore adult elrond has entirely estranged himself from maglor in the series.#he does not dispatch a search party looking for him or host him in rivendell nor does he as a ruler of a significant realm beseech for#maglor in any way or try to repair his tainted reputation among elvenkind.#elrond canonically chooses to become immortal to preserve thingol’s line. which speaks of his true loyalties given who he was raised by.#he does not want to be associated with turgon even though he did not partake in any kinslaying at alqualonde. elrond simply does#not fuck with him because of the ban. which tells us elrond all but reviled the feanorians as an adult after processing his#childhood and trauma away from maglor’s influence.#when he introduces himself he calls earendil his sire not maglor and goes on at length to tie himself to his maternal sindarin heritage.#his sons carry on the el-naming tradition honoring elwe that began with dior eluchil. he wears a grey mantle and so do his kids.#he is named after thingols hall. he is a walking museum of his lost biological family and to me that’s more interesting than the ultra#sanitization of ~kidnap fam. elrond tells ppl he loved maglor once as a kid and not afterwards. there's a gaping vacuum there that#he fills with his biological heritage instead. he becomes a loremaster to preserve his family's history & all that is good wise & beautiful#he's not interested in aligning himself with a dispossessed house that was the cause of so much bloodshed and terror.#he opens a big house that functions like doriath and sirion - a refuge for the weary and the oppressed. the opposite of the feanorians.#that textual version of elrond is so interesting to me. because elrond cannot be as 'kind as summer' if he honors the murderers of children#he cannot be a wise kind and benevolent figure if he presumes to 'forgive' maglor on behalf of all his victims just because maglor did not#kill HIM as a child and did the bare minimum of treating a hostage kindly after violently ripping him from everything he loved.#elrond knows that maglor killed OTHER children which imo explains why adult elrond is written the way he is. he does not prioritize#maglor over his victims. instead he throws himself into healing and protecting THEM! and tries to undo the hurt and harm that maglor caused#fandom weaponizing elrond's kindness will never sit well with me bc kindness has boundaries & doesnt prioritize the comfort of oppressors#over the safety and dignity of the people they hurt. a kind elrond will always honor the children and innocents lost!

Yes to all of this. One hundred times yes.

I take great comfort in knowing that canon Elrond has nothing to do with the fandomized version of him that people flatten into a "Feanorian heir" who has no respect or love for the heritage of his actual parents, who hates his mother, and who refers to the murderers of his people as "his fathers."

This is the part of the fanon that I hate the most, and it once again proves that people on this site are even less progressive and self-aware than the conservative Catholic monarchist Tolkien himself, no matter how many "good" labels they want to put on themselves. I hate their obsession with focusing on the "wholesome kidnap family" while completely ignoring the deeply ugly layers of the situation. Because letting the twins live wasn't some heroic act, it was a choice not to spill even more blood, WHICH IS THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM.