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Just thinking of little Runaan and Ethari.

They have childhood friends to sweethearts vibes to me.

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Who is the better father?

Finwë

Feänor

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2023

Argue and drop reasoning in the comments plz

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Do you think Runaan/Ethari were good parents/guardians to Rayla? She was pushed into a role that destroyed her self worth and value of herself, along with almost cost her her arm, and then had Ethari ghost her along with the rest of her village, and they never stood up for her or tried to stop their toxic culture from hurting her. When she tackled off Viren, we saw her resigned to die, and as we see with her arm and having nightmares in the new book, she's still fucked up from it all now

The thing about toxic cultures is, if you’re in the majority, you don’t see the toxicity nearly as much, and you and the others in it are often reassuring each other that you’re all doing the right thing. Often at some overseer’s urging, some leader or group that’s deliberately encouraging this behavior for some reason. *gestures to all of human history*

And it’s not always for a bad reason at first. But when a society takes on toxic traits, it’s often out of fear. Fear of losing identity, fear of change, fear of dissolution. Things get divided into “us vs them” and “good vs bad”, anything with only two sides, because a black-and-white situation is very easy to rally people to and motivate them with. And black-and-white is very Moonshadow.

When you only have two categories to fill, and you put all the things you like and want to keep doing in the positive side, then literally everything else gets dumped into the negative side: humans, cowards, changing your mind, showing fear, speaking out of turn, showing your feelings, not dancing with the group, having perfectly ordinary concerns about dying.

Moonshadow culture definitely has issues. It was created to have issues. Just because Runaan and Ethari are The Hot Gay Elf Husbands doesn’t excuse their negative cultural behaviors. They genuinely love Rayla, they do. They’ve both broken their cultural rules for her, and that’s a big step for each of them to take, considering their culture. So that’s encouraging. But they both contributed to her hangups, too, by being the authority figures who told her how things went, who helped explain village life to her as events took place around them all year by year.

Thing is, they literally don’t have a second option that’s readily available. Moonshadows are homebodies. Ethari probably rarely or never leaves the Moonshadow Forest, or maybe even the Silvergrove. And when Runaan leaves, it’s with the mindset that he’s wading into a bunch of lawless humans who need some fatal correcting. There’s no room for learning good traits from them while he’s on missions.

They’re good people in a stagnant society that’s gone rigid with age and the strictures of tradition. If they see a better, more loving way to live, they should gravitate to it out of the goodness of their hearts. But someone has to bring that to them, or they’ll have to stumble upon it on their own. It’s extremely difficult to invent something out of nothing for the very first time.

Rayla’s finding a softer way to live since she met Callum. The love that Sarai and Harrow had for each other and for him and Ezran is being shared with Rayla, and through her, I hope it trickles to all of the Moonshadows in turn somehow. They would die less if they realized it’s okay to make choices different than the group now and then, and they’d have more whole families as a result. And that seems like something they’d really enjoy.

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Have you and Runaan ever thought about adopting other kids? Rayla will be an adult in a few years and you are still pretty young. I am sure you'll both make amazing dads.

You all sure think about this a lot, hmm? Well, so have we. This is Xadia, and adoption isn’t our only option here. But there’s a war on, and with Runaan stealthing his way along the front lines for the last several years, there hasn’t really been a good time to start taking this idea more seriously.

Runaan was so beautiful with little Rayla, though. Seeing them together made my heart sing every time.

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I love the idea that everyone thinks Thranduil and Legolas have a difficult relationship but I think during the events of the Hobbit, it was a stressful time for both of them, with the hobbits and the orcs and then the Tauriel drama and I like to think about Legolas taking Aragorn and Gimli with him to Mirkwood after the events of LOTR and he and Thranduil just have the closest relationship ever, Legolas immediately hugs Thranduil, wrapping all four limbs around him and Aragorn is like “I thought you said your relationship with your father was ‘complicated’.” And Legolas is like “IT WAS BUT I MISSED HIM SO MUCH!”