#second age problems

[xximmortalkissxx]

You're a parasitic psycho, filthy creature finger-bangin' my heart.🖤 You're hideous and sexy 🖤

Shout out to @dinogalad for the encouragement I needed to get my butt into gear and finish my wips! 🖤 And to @lyragoth and @rosenrotstuff for being Silvergifting artist icons. (I want to be you when I grow up). (Also) Credit where credit is due. Those cheeks were in no small part inspired by @neldeathstar ... I'm obsessed. 🍑🔥🍑🔥🍑🔥🍑🔥🍑🔥🍑🔥🍑

[anipologist]

So if we accept that Gil-Galad is indeed the son of Orodreth, who is in turn the son of Angrod brother of Finrod than the whole Last Alliance becomes not just a last alliance but a bit of a revenge alliance as well...

Leaving aside that Elendil and his people definitely want revenge on Sauron for Numenor, the alliance becomes deeply personal to Gil-Gilad as well.

1) Sauron tortured and eventually had Finrod, his great uncle killed. (And given Finrod’s temperament and personality, he probably hung out with his grand-nephew, I doubt he was an aloof uncle).

2) I’m not saying he and Celebrimbor were best friends, they definitely disagreed on stuff but they are cousins in a decimated family and presumably would have survived the fall of Nargothrond together. Guess who else Sauron tortured and killed...

3) Sauron also sued for mercy and pretended repentance at the time of the War of Wrath, Gil-Galad was the leader of the Noldor in Middle-Earth at the time. I’m guessing he has a bone to pick about the lying murderer’s fake new leaf act.

And then he got killed by Sauron too, which leaves Galadriel and Elrond as the sole carriers of this legacy. Somehow Galadriel ripping Dul Gulder apart in full Lúthien mode becomes twice as scary and meaningful...

[minglingofthelights]

It’s hard to tell who was more disappointed. Elendil upon the discovery of Sauron’s survival of the destruction of Númenor, or Sauron upon the knowledge of Elendil’s.

[minglingofthelights]

Some of you have not read the Akallabêth

And it shows.