#on dinenthel

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YES OK BUT THERE’S ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL LADIES ON THE DASH & DINENTHEL IS MAKING HEART EYES AT THEM ALL

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❝❞ What would your muse’s cheesy yearbook quote be? (for any/all? whatever floats your boat)

A SILLY MEME FOR SUCKY DAYS || accepting

Maedhros’s would be:

❝It always gets darker before it gets lighter.❞

Maglor’s would be:

❝Nobody is actually going to read this.❞

Dinenthel’s would be:

❝To everyone who said I wouldn’t get here: Suck it.❞

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Elves and Hair

Headcanon

So I’m going to be real, this was originally a really short blurb that I posted to my old Maedhros blog(which I no longer have access to thanks to the great password reset fiasco) that got a??? Really ridiculous amount of attention for the tiny gush it was. [x]

No but.

What if elves hair just stops growing when they fully mature. So like it gets cut it doesn’t grow back. And that’s why cutting it is so atrocious. Elves seem to stop aging physically at 100, when they look between 25 and 28 as far as humans are concerned. So they’ve got all that time that their hair is growing, and their bodies are still changing, before it just stops. And their hair will never grow back again if it’s cut.

So when Maedhros’s ass-length hair is lopped off in Angband it stays that way for the rest of his life.

^^^ The original post.

There isn’t actually. All that much I want to to do expand on this except to say that it’s most likely that elves will only cut their hair under specific circumstances- sometimes in mourning among some of the older Avari tribes perhaps, or if it is a matter of life or death. Otherwise, cutting an elf’s hair is considered an act to shame them. Elves place so much importance on hair(come on, think how many are named for their hair, and think of how many times it’s brought up in Silm how lustrous someone’s hair is or what colour it is) that applying this idea just sort of makes sense to me.

And for reference, here’s a point someone made on the original post about possible canonical support for my little theory: [x]

As it is, this headcanon is going to be treated as fact on this blog, meaning that Maedhros’s hair, once cropped to his jaw in Angband and partially shaved during his recovery, stay that way permenanty.