Fond of Finwëans (all of them)

Kat | she/her | adult | I'm also Swanhild on AO3 | Mostly a Silmarillion/general Tolkien blog these days

[swanhild]

Hello and welcome to my Silm blog (with some other Tolkien-related posts sprinkled in occasionally). I’m a bit shy and work and other real life obligations keep from being as active on Tumblr as I’d like to be, but feel free to say hi! I don’t bite and am happy to meet new people, even if it might take me a while to reply.

I also post art and fic occasionally:

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My fic and art can also be found on AO3

[fistfuloflightning]

Day 6: Separation, Elros (+Elrond and Maedhros) for @nolofinweanweek

[sad--beep]

[feyandferal]

Elves, wise ? Peaceful ? Frolicking under the stars ? Nah.

Give me First Age elves. Give me Finrod cosplaying as an orc to have an epic rap battle with Sauron. Give me Lúthien dancing the fucking devil to sleep. Give me Fëanor bursting into flames because the man literally does not know how to stop being extra. Give me Maedhros using adoption as a coping mechanism, Elwing going full bird mode, Glorfindel whacking Balrog butt like he was born to do it. Beautiful, unhinged, powerful little freaks. First Age elves are something else, man.

Inspired by a little chat with @moringottocake.

[elfinfen]

If Feanor survived, he would certainly meet with his brother once. - Какие эльфы! Ноло! Сколько лет, сколько… - Прекрати это. И я тебя внимательно слушаю. - Тебе к лицу этот мех! - Да, спасибо. Так что же там по кораблям?.. - Замерз? Отогрею кровь род…кхм…полуродную! /на фоне звуки ора и рыданий руссингона/ /и остальных счастливо обретших друг друга родичей/

[micelilies]

Celegorm

[balrogballs]

trick or treat! 🦇🕸️🎃

sorry to everyone who sent me one of these i only just realised the game is to provide a 'treat' apologies for my confusion and hope u all enjoy this joint treat ie a little doodle of comrade maedhros and the little twins (sorry idk how to draw babies) in happier times xoxo @thescrapwitch @jackimer @starlight-n-shit et al!

[dinogalad]

Fingon: Uncle Náro, would you prefer me to call you Uncle or Dad-in-law Feanor: None

[the-elusive-soleil]

My new favorite Halenthir idea:

Haleth does battle, meets Caranthir, feels some feelings, heads west per canon and eventually reaches Brethil...and becomes acquainted with Finrod Nom Felagund as he tries to talk his kinsman into letting the Haladin settle in the area.

At some point, Haleth and Finrod are talking and he compliments her on her mastery of elvish languages, and she's like "oh yeah, the lord of Thargelion and his people taught us". (Note: this is not the AU where Caranthir only teaches them Quenya.) And Finrod's like, "hey, that's my annoying grumpy cousin!"

And they chat about Caranthir a bit, because Haleth also thinks Caranthir is annoying and grumpy and is willing to joke back and forth with Finrod on the subject, but she's not willing to go along with it once she feels that Caranthir is being insulted/mocked. And somewhere along the line Finrod clocks that "oh, there's something going on here".

Which is confirmed when, at one point, she mentions that Caranthir wanted her to stay and as good as proposed marriage.

She's about to reel off her usual list of rationalizations for why she couldn't possibly have, but Finrod gets there first with "oh, but of course it was for the best in the end that you left him, elves and Men are just too [dramatic gesture] metaphysically different to ever be together, it's always destined to end in tragedy", and basically tries to Athrabeth her.

Except that Haleth doesn't particularly care to be Athrabethed. Like, yes, she made the choice to do what needed to be done for her people instead of what she maybekindasorta wanted, but that was her choice. She's not really into this smarmy know-it-all elf patiently explaining to her like she's a child that she can't have Caranthir because ~*Fate*~ said so.

And, well, her people have a safe home now. Her sister-in-law will make a good enough peacetime leader until her nephew is grown up.

So she gathers the Haladin, explains what she's going to do. Most of them, naturally, opt to stay in Brethil, but a few adventurous or Thingol-averse sorts join her on the trip she ends up making back to Thargelion.

Where she marches up to Caranthir and essentially says, "I'm going to marry you to spite your irritating blond cousin."

Which is the best reason Caranthir has ever heard of for doing anything.

(They're married for like seventy years and ridiculously happy and in this one, Caranthir's brothers find out fairly early on because he won't stop sending smug letters to Finrod every year with updates on his marriage to his amazing adaneth wife and sketched peredhel baby pictures and so forth.)

[ayaosguqin]

“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” — Lao Tzu

[papayanna]

I lied. Put your clothes back on, we're not having sex, we're going to talk about how Celebrimbor's perfect tragedy is his desire to build something better than his family's legacy and make Middle Earth a peaceful place, and how his trust and kindness ultimately give Sauron the greatest weapon he ever had and doom him to a miserable and lonely death just like every one of his ancestors

[veronicaleighauthor]

[basic-treat]

Auntie Aerin comforts little Túrin as Morwen speaks to him about his sister’s death

[dreamingthroughthenoise]

What if Maglor lives on the island where the ruins of Himring are with his favorite horses and now he’s living out his Misty of Chincoteague horse girl dreams running wild with the horses?

And every year he takes several to the mainland to find them good homes because island small and horse herd BIG and some of them want to travel. (Whenever Maglor is spied by a former island horse on the mainland it has to come and tell him all the adventures it’s had with its new master and all the good gossip.)

And then of course Elrond meets a rather chatty horse in Rivendell one day who tells him all about his elf friend with the golden voice on the island and you can bet anything that he is buying that horse and heading for the coast at a dead run.

[astral-aromance]

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[ulmondil]

anairë had a question x

[outofangband]

Then through the throng came the sons of Fëanor, flying from the North and they bore new tidings of evil. Maedhros  spoke for them. “Blood and darkness!’ he cried. ‘Finwë the king is slain and the Silmarils are gone!’

This is another post of mine from a long time ago I've wanted to revise, especially now that I have a dedicated tag for the darkening! I think so much about Maedhros's testimony about the death of his grandfather in Morgoth's Ring. It’s one of my top favorite scenes in Tolkien (you can probably guess the others!) and I have so many thoughts about it.

something that struck me particularly is Maedhros’s infamous cry of blood and darkness! And then, “darkness and blood”!

Maedhros’s testimony is fairly composed given the extreme circumstances and these exclamations are both dramatic and somewhat jarring. Indeed, it's some of the best insight we have into his character; in the midst of this almost apocalyptic horror, he has the presense of mind to keep his brothers together and to navigate the darkness and then to speak to Manwë this unspeakable

….Darkness and blood! When we could move again we came to the house.

Maedhros has not truly known blood like this nor darkness like this before this time. He has never before seen bloodshed of elves and he has just found the body of his grandfather after a brutal murder. He has never been without the light of the trees and the stars. Even in their waning hours, there has never been true darkness.

I presume Maedhros has hunted before. I do not think he was entirely naive to the idea that living things are composed of blood and viscera and bone. Certainly we know his house was forging weapons.

He might even have seen blood in depictions of the life in Beleriand Finwë’s people lived through.

But this is clearly different.

His cry of blood and darkness, darkness and blood, are not just abstract exclamations of the horrors he has just witnessed, they are also genuine reactions to what was not natural or familiar phenomena to him.

For all he has learned of Beleriand, of the days when the dark rider haunted and hunted the first elves, of all the warnings of his father and the foreboding he clearly felt when Fëanor left that day for Taniquetil, nothing could have prepared him for when this evil came at full force to his home and his visceral horror and trauma of it is so palpable even as he tries to fit it into coherent testimony

Anyways this is not as good or coherent as I would have hoped and I will revisit soon but yeah