Ya’ll, i just created some sick ass lore for my au.
So as some of you might have noticed, i have started drawing my ocs and legolas and thranduil, etc, with yellow eyes, and i was like “hmmm, how do i make that unique”
And then i was like: what if they weren’ born with yellow eyes. Instead, elves get yellow eyes when they’ve managed to forcefully seperate themselves from the music, from the song, from Eru’s plan? The ritual to do this is smth they go through as elflings, so most beings only know them as having yellow eyes.
And mind you, yellow eye havers in the au are:
And the reason why luthien and feanor, etc, don’t have yellow eyes is bc they didn’t go through the ritual bc their yellow eyed parents were stopped from doing so.
And the thing is, seperating themselves from the Song is a gamble. There’s no garuntee for a happy ending but they do have the power and freedom from Eru to do what they want. They exist outside of the system.
And the reason they don’t tell other elves how to do so is bc 1. If all elves tried to remove themselves from fate it’d get back to the gods and then things would go to shit, and the yellow-havers are just selfish enough to want to keep it for themselves.
And 2, while not being forcefully bound by Eru’s song is nice, and it is absolutely smth they will hapully face the consequences for in order to have, it also means that any protection they have from the gods, from the song, is gone.
Where the valar can’t intervene with elves like feanor, galadirel, elrond, etc, via mind control and forcefully binding them against their will when they’ve done nothing wrong, the valar can do whatever they want with yellow-eyed elves with no fear of intervention from eru or sm other god.
Whether it be by mind controlling and abuse in order to keep control of a kingdom (melian and elwe), binding their powers and physically preventing them from leaving valinor via force field (Ingwe) or havong them assassinated and then keeping them locked up in the halls of mandos far past the time they should be released (Miriel), or even simply being picked up and dropped into whatever hellish situarion for the gods’ amusement and entertainment, these elves might be more free than any other, but they also have no protection from the powers that be.
Yellow eyed elves are the putlaws of Eru’s plan, Eru’s music, and while the elves listed will happily face any and all consequences in order to retain their freedom, it’s not something they would encourage others to get either, bc it’s a very dangerous decision to make.