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[us-politics]

[remarkable-butch]

hey. dont cry. trans girl laugh that lights up the whole room. okay?

[insertcpnhere]

I love marriage law fics and think there aren’t enough Remadora ones

Edit to add: turns out there are def more, I just forgot them lol but they're in the replies

There def aren't, and I do think it might be because how werewolves are treated in canon.

I know of two for sure, the one I linked earlier(Wed the Witches) and then one that is very very similar(I think it's inspired by WtW) but I do think a marriage law would be anti-werewolf.

And these asks actually reminded me that, yearsssssssssssssssss ago, I also thought of an idea to have one based on post-war Voldemort wins where the Ministry assigns husbands to women in the Order and forcefully annuls the Remadora and Bleur marriages to assign Tonks and Fleur to DEs in order to try to silence them. Tonks was assigned to Lucius in that one 😂 but again, never finished it, don't remember anything else from the plot

Thanks for the ask!

[jigsawjo]

2025-06-28, 1500, “1980s”

[enterwitty-remark]

Age Gaps Among the Noldorin Royal Family

As much as I love seeing all the cousins and children being close in age, seeing as elves are an immortal species and do not have a limited fertile window in their lifespan, I believe it is much more likely to have huge age gaps between children.

Especially keeping in mind Míriel and her fatal exhaustion after childbirth, it’s probably heavily recommended to wait until the first child is close to, or already, a fully grown adult before having another child, to ensure the safety and optimum health of the parents.

We are also aware that most elves don’t have may children to begin with, likely staying at the 1-3 range, with 4 being seen as a little more than average but still respectable and 7 being insane.

Before moving on with the rest of the post I am going to start by saying that while I do love math, I am not fond of the math Tolkien put into his wonderful universe because it makes me want to tear my hair out. I will instead be grouping ages as “they likely had considerable overlap between childhood/adolescence” and “that elf was a Complete Adult who (probably) knew what they were doing”.

To start with, Finwë marries Indis during the early teenage equivalent years of Fëanor. Part of the reason was Finwë needing a partner to help with the ruling of an entire people, peacetime notwithstanding, and hoping for Fëanor to have a grounding maternal influence in his life. Spending much of his early life seeing these rumors and the Statute of Míriel coming into existence had a more lasting impact on Fëanor and his desire to dislike anything Indis related on principle outweighs the potential help that Indis tried to provide in the early days of their relationship.

Findis’ is born around Fëanor hitting his late adolescent period, which drives him to spend more time away from this family and leads him into Nerdanel’s path. They marry shortly after reaching adulthood, and the rest of Findis’ childhood passes away without much note.

On the next topic of ages, I faced a lot of difficulty on deciding who would be the olde, primarily from Maedhros’ line in the Silmarillion: “Still the kingship would rightly come to you, the eldest here of the house of Finwë, and not the least wise.” I put a lot of thought into this, and will be placing Maedhros as older, if only by what amounts to several moments, than Fingolfin. The line Maedhros speaks will then refer less to physical age and more so to being among the older generation and closer in bloodline to Finwë.

After the courtship and marriage of Fingolfin and Anairë Lalwen is born, and as she is over the halfway point to adulthood Fingon is born. It’s near this point where the rivalry between Fëanor and Fingolfin starts, though it will take several centuries before it reaches the animosity noted at the end of the Years of the Trees. Maglor then has a gap of several years between him and Fingon.

Before Maglor has reached maturity, Celegorm and Caranthir are born, being near scandalously close from the current traditions of waiting until the child is near, or at, adulthood before having another child.

Turgon is born as Caranthir firmly reaches adolescence, and as an unfortunate side effect of getting dragged to the House of Fëanor often as a child (in no small part due to Maedhros and Fingon’s friendship) has developed no love for the sons of Fëanor, as Caranthir was closest in age to him and had no desire to spend time with his half cousin, and certainly made that known.

Finarfin is born among the same time as Curufin, though they do not spend much time mingling through their childhood.

Turgon and Elenwë wed at a similar time as Finarfin and Eärwen, and to round out a very joyful time among the House of Finwë, Aredhel is born! Despite the increasing tensions among Fëanor and Fingolfin, and Turgon’s horror, she becomes fast friends with Celegorm and learns much of hunting from him during her childhood and adolescence.

There’s a notable gap between the time Aredhel, the current youngest, reached adulthood and the birth of Finrod, and later, Idril. Not soon after, Curufin is married, much to the delight of Fëanor and his brothers.

Orodreth is born just as the House of Fëanor takes a backseat in terms of childbearing, and there is another long pause before Angrod, Argon, and Aegnor are born within respectable times of each other, with Argon falling close in age to rod.

There is another long gap before Celebrimbor is born, and shortly after Galadriel. As she reaches her maturity Ambarussa are born, and thus ends the generations of Finwë in the blessed lands. Of special note, though I am still undecided in terms of parentage, the following birth order remains: Gil-Galad, Ëarendil, Elros, Elrond, Celebrían, Elladan, Elrohir, and Arwen.

If you didn’t want to read through my musings and explanations, here is a list from oldest to youngest of the House of Finwë:

Fëanor

Findis

Maedhros

Fingolfin

Lalwen

Fingon

Maglor

Celegorm

Caranthir

Turgon

Finarfin

Curufin

Aredhel

Finrod

Idril

Orodreth

Angrod

Argon

Aegnor

Celebrimbor

Galadriel

Ambarussa

[processzine-org]

Object Remarks: Mirror, Kettle and Fridge NFC tag in use, returning a remark on screen.

[princesssarisa]

Can anyone else think of a time when someone was reading a book to you, or when you and another person were reading a book together, and that person paused to make a comment about the plot that turned out to be totally wrong?

When my mom and I were reading Alanna: The First Adventure together when I was in fifth grade, we reached the chapter about the sweating sickness, and the characters were talking about how clearly this illness was caused by magic. My mom assumed this was just meant to show the medical ignorance in the medieval setting – she turned to me and said "In those days, they didn't know about germs." But what do we find out later? The disease was created by magic – the villainous Duke Roger sent it to kill the royal family.

Two books later, during The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, I was sad about Alanna and Jonathan's breakup. My dad thought he knew the conventions of romance in YA literature, and he assured me that Alanna and Jon were just having "a lovers' spat" and would get back together by the end. But do they? No! They're basically a medieval fantasy Jo and Laurie: they reconcile as friends, but both end up with other love interests who are much better suited to them.

A few years later, my homeschool teacher and I were reading The Murders in the Rue Morgue together. When we reached the part where detective Dupin explains that the dead old woman's broken bones and bruises weren't inflicted by a blunt weapon (as was originally thought), but just the result of her falling to the ground from the window, my teacher remarked "So she jumped!" She thought the theory the police had dismissed earlier in the story, that the old woman committed suicide, would turn out to be true. But right away I knew she was wrong. The woman's throat was cut too, so deeply that she was nearly beheaded: no one can do that to themselves and then jump out a window afterwards! And sure enough, I was right. She was killed and then thrown out the window by – 184-year-old spoiler alert – an escaped orangutan.

Does anyone else have any stories like these?