#telperiën

[spruceneedles]

Tar-Telperiën and Isilmo

[isilloth-draws]

Tar-Telperiën

[anghraine]

♥ faramir

♥ = family headcanon

Normally I would go for either the holy quartet of Denethor, Finduilas, Boromir, and Faramir or something to do with Lothíriel, but I’ve actually been thinking about something else—not really to do with blood.

So, one of the responsibilities of the Steward is representing the king when he’s away (rather than this falling to another member of the royal family). This is why Mardil was running things after Eärnur rode off. So when Aragorn is off at war, Faramir would generally be the one ruling Gondor. And apparently there are a lot of wars in the earlier decades of Aragorn’s reign that send Aragorn and Éomer abroad pretty often. 

Meanwhile, Arwen is ... you know, right there. So my basic headcanon is that Faramir and Arwen at first have a tentative respect that leads Faramir and Arwen to consult with each other about the management of Gondor even though Faramir is technically in charge. And that the initial tentative respect deepens into real friendship, all the more as they have certain common interests and priorities (I imagine Arwen is also a lover of music and lore, say). 

(And, more unhappily, they have common fates; in some ways they’re the last gasps of fading peoples, ‘springless autumn,’ and they’re each going to watch the one they love die before them.)

I imagine that Eldarion and his sisters are born in the midst of all this (as are Elfwinë and his siblings in Rohan, but that’s a different story). Arwen, I think, wants her children with her as much as possible, while Faramir is also frequently with her for administrative/friendship reasons, so he’s around the children a lot. I think he’d be good with children, and—anyway, this is a lot of words to say that my headcanon is that he’s not only good with these ones, but quickly becomes an affectionate uncle in all but name to the prince and princesses, and they love him in turn. :’)

[anghraine]

Look, I am just ridiculously charmed by the image of tiny Eldarion and his sisters climbing the Steward’s robes and demanding to be swung up into the air, and later, having to be reminded to say ‘Prince Faramir’ in public and chattering over the presents he always brings to Minas Anor and ...

[anghraine]

For my anon who asked if I had any Fourth Age headcanon family trees ... indeed I do. :D

This is simplified; people are placed by convenience rather than age, and more of the second generation (i.e. Elfwinë et al) have children than appear here, but I haven’t thought too much that far in. Also:

- Ithíriel, Elros’s wife here, comes from this headcanon; the short version is that she was a Hadorian loremaster who made for an obscure Queen of Númenor but a highly accomplished scholar and patroness of scholarship.

- In POME, Tolkien says that the Stewards were not direct descendants of the line of Elendil but were ultimately “of royal origin,” which I take to mean that they come from some junior Elrosian offshoot along the way. A lot of Dúnedain probably do at this point (many times over, at that).

- In UT, Tolkien says that the ancestors of the Princes of Dol Amroth were kin of Elendil. This doesn’t have to be on the Elrosian side, but my headcanon is that it is and they were related through Inzilbêth. 

- I imagine Princess Telperiën as silver-haired and named for Celebrían (not Tar-Telperiën, much as I love her)

- Glóredhel is the only one of Faramir and Éowyn’s children with golden hair, and was named for it and (as I imagine is pretty common) for the Edainic figure from the First Age, not Elves.

- Elfhild/Elvaeth marries a Dúnadan of the North and goes to Arnor; Athelflaed/Aravain becomes a knight in Gondor (her path somewhat smoothed by her aunt Éowyn’s heroics) and a close friend and protector of Eldarion.

- Morwen’s son Barahir, sister-son of Glóredhel and Eldarion, is the Barahir who wrote the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen.

[anghraine]

Quenya name of the day: Telperiën

Telperiën: silver maiden/silver-crowned

telpe-, with telep- the prefixed form of telpë, silver. 

-iën, feminine ending. At one point it replaced -iel, daughter or maiden (and the word for daughter changed from yeldë to yendë), but -iel was obviously retained; -iën remained however as a common feminine suffix, though it's not clear if it was mean to be a generic suffix or equivalent in meaning to -iel, perhaps a more archaic form.

Quenya does not generally allow for vowels to appear together in compounds, which may be the reason for the insertion of -r-. However, normally the first vowel is simply dropped, which should produce Telpien and not Telperiën. It may be a normal variation on the practice or it may incorporate:

-rie-, from ríë, crown . There is a possible elaborated form, riendë, which may be the basis for the riën names; otherwise it would be ríë combined with -iën or -en. 

Telperiën is a feminine name, used once of:

Tar-Telperiën, second Ruling Queen of Númenor. Perhaps remembering the disastrous marriage of her great-grandmother Tar-Ancalimë, she refused to wed at all, and was generally proud and willful. Her name may be merely poetic; as she was heir from birth, it may also refer to the silver fillet worn by the rulers of Númenor. It's also possible that she was silver-haired, which would have been rare among the dark-haired House of Elros.