I like stuff. And things.
Current fixation(s): The Silmarillion, Critical Role, Linked Universe, the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Blue Period
He/Him but in a genderfluid fae sort of way
I have put stuff on the internet and cannot go back. That is mildly terrifying. If you wish to shorten my name, That One or One works as a name, please, and thank you.
I am genderfluid with a strong preference for he/him pronouns. I am also demiromantic and somewhere on the asexual spectrum, currently dating someone.
I am not terribly active, but I do try to actually reblog the things I like when I have the energy. Any form of social media burns through my motivation, so I have been absent recently, mostly to attempt to alleviate additional forms of stress affecting my mental health.
I am on ao3 under the same name but with each word capitalised: ThatOneFaeCreature, but, again, I am not terribly active and do not update often. I have two ongoing Silmarillion fanfics.
Apologies for any awkwardness in interactions. I try to be polite, but I do not always understand people.
No pressure: @tagrin @alenzet @mrecury42 @yourdarklordmelkor @stag-stag-stag @writingintherayne @jjaeh @questionableaardvark + anyone else i may have forgotten (apologies)
10. You dont know how lucky you are by Keaton Henson
No pressure tags as always @rangerofthesouth @itsm0onshine @stag-stag-stag @zephlovesspacestuff @tatikawaissad @lunardelphox @m0ose-idiot @dykehepburn @tepaofthevalleyofthewind @idkimgayasf + anyone who wants to join in gimme your music taste
omg thank you so much for the tag! I love ask games ^^
The Bog Bodies — Rabbitology
Exeunt — The Oh Hellos
Elsa's Song — The Amazing Devil
Ptolemaea — Ethel Cain
Ringfinger — Nine Inch Nails
Inferno, Pt. 2 — The Buttress
King — The Amazing Devil
That Unwanted Animal — The Amazing Devil
The Drowning — Elsa & Emilie
Falena — Cisco E La Casa Del Vento
no pressure tags! (this is a good excuse to get to know some of my amazing mutuals, let's go!) @boreaswrites @plaudiusplants @sillymarillly @agent-holbrook @lanthanum12 @x-aipio @convallaria-majal1s @rebornflameofthenoldor @a-litt1e-emo @thatonefaecreature
Seems fun! My music taste can be eclectic at times though, so I wonder how this will go…
True Love - P!nk ft. Lily Allen
The Tower - Neoni, Lydia the Bard
Up and Away (My Adventures with Superman theme)
Talking Body - Tove Lo
TALK SHIT! - PEGGY, Thomas Sanders
Paparazzi - Lady Gaga
Cry - Benson Boone
BUTCHER VANITY - FLAVOR FOLEY
bad idea right? - Olivia Rodrigo
Yes I’m A Mess - AJR
no pressure tags, also sorry if I tag you if you have already been tagged: @theineffablewitchesroad @gracefallingart @nycterisg @alyaofthenumenorians @nerdyauthortheatrekid @rrr6867 @feyandferal @mahtaniel
Wanna share a funny hc: im pretty sure narvi and celebrimbor have matching tattoos (rom/plat whichever). Narvi convinced celebrimbor to get some n celebrimbor thought it wld be a) cool and b) a funny way to scandalize the other elves (assuming that elves look down on scars/permanent modifications). Narvi gets his on his arms and celebrimbor's is down his back, so he can choose when to show it off for strategic shock factor (feanorian drama genes). Sauron is a lil miffed when he sees it, half bcs he thinks it's juvenile, half bcs he's seething that tyelpe didn't get matching tattoos with HIM, this is clearly narvi mocking his plan to be celebrimbor's #1 friend.
It gets funnier when celebrimbor gets reembodied n he keeps the tattoo cuz he's ride or die for narvi no matter what. Now everybody in his extended family knows him as the "Kind/Good/Behaved/Civil" Feanorian, he's the Good Kid that nobody has a problem with. Some of his cousins and uncles invite him to a bathhouse/swimming area and everything's calm up until celebrimbor takes off his shirt and they see a long line of khuzdul down his spine (it reads "narvi's friend, do not punch". Narvi's is sindarin that means "celebrimbor's friend, do not shoot" bcs they're unprofound and poetically-disinclined inebriated idiots*). Cue a lot of shocked gasps and pointing and demanding to know when and why this happened and Celegorm spitting his drink and Curufin visibly preparing his 2-hours long lecture and Feanor asking his grandson what the tattoo means while also planning a lecture and Galadriel wanting to get one too and planning to ask Gimli how when he gets there.
Finally posted a 3rd chapter of one of my fanfics only to realise I was so out of touch from it despite rereading that the timeline no longer makes sense, and now I must edit it. Curses.
So, as recommended by @laisrinel , I started reading the tale of Beren and Lúthien, and omg, I can say I already hate Curufin (I don't hate his fans) but I'm surprised he has any! 🤣 what a mean elf he is!!! I feel for Lúthien, she was so innocent thinking "These are princes and they can help me :3" Only to stumble upon the two worse elves ever! And Curufin shotting two arrows at her just because she asked Beren to spare his life, and how angry he was because his older brother got rejected, spoiled brat behavior. I hate you Curufin and Celegorm! What more mean things these two will do, I wonder.
getting characters into world-endingly intense codependent queerplatonic relationships is literally what life is all about. it is literally what we were put here on this earth to do
I think that Morwen Eledhwen must have been a careful, cautious, pragmatic woman to have survived occupied Dor-Lómin for so long with Nienor in her care, which is why I don’t think she actually sent Túrin to foster with Thingol in Doriath after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
The Silmarillion claims that Morwen sent Túrin to foster in Menegroth on the strength of her transitive kinship to Thingol through Beren— that is, on the basis of Thingol’s incredibly fraught relationship with her very distant cousin. But Morwen pinning her hopes for Túrin’s safety on the whims of a King who was well-known to dislike the Edain, and who had infamously intended to kill Beren for seeking Luthien’s hand only ten years earlier, seems unlikely. Especially since Thingol hated the Noldor and the House of Hador was one of Fingon’s staunchest allies, and since Thingol only sent token aid to the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, a barely-lost battle in which Morwen’s husband was captured by Morgoth.
I think Morwen probably actually sent Túrin to the forest of Brethil to foster with the Haladin. They were successfully holding out against Morgoth’s forces post-Nirnaeth, and she would have been assured of Túrin’s welcome there, since he was kin to the Haladin through Húrin. And the Haladin — unlike Thingol— could have taught Túrin how to be a Lord of the Edain, which is the role that Morwen presumably expected Túrin to eventually assume, like Húrin before him.
Then how--and why-- did Túrin end up in Menegroth? Plausibly, I think this could have to do with internal Doriathrim politics regarding Luthien and Beren's marriage, and the tension between Dior Eluchil's status as Thingol's heir and his half-elven nature, considering the well-established, notably anti-Edain views of both Thingol and his court.
The Silmarillion describes Thingol as being "troubled" by dreams of the coming of Men, and says that as a result,
[...] he commanded that Men should take no lands to dwell in save in the north, and that the princes whom they served should be answerable for all that they did; and he said: ‘Into Doriath shall no Man come while my realm lasts, not even those of the house of Bëor who serve Finrod the beloved.’ ("Of the Coming of Men into the West")
I've seen people ask elsewhere why Finrod settled the House of Bëor in Dorthonion -- dangerous, due to being so close to the front lines of the Siege of Angband-- rather than near Nargothrond, and I would argue that this pronouncement of Thingol's is why. Dorthonion is Finrod's only vassal realm in the North, where Thingol has permitted the Edain to dwell, and Finrod has compelling incentives to comply with Thingol's decree because of his strong diplomatic (and probably economic) ties to Doriath. This stands in contrast to the Fëanorians in East Beleriand, who have significantly fewer incentives to comply with Thingol's pronouncement than Finrod does, and whose lands correspondingly support a sizable settlement of Edain in the comparatively more sheltered southern region of Estolad-- near Nan Elmoth-- until at least the Dagor Bragollach.
This pronouncement -- in saying that the "princes whom they served should be answerable for all that they did" -- also displays Thingol's intentions to treat the Edain as permanent political dependents of the Elvish princes in whose lands they settled, categorically refusing to recognize them as legitimate political actors in their own right. And it's a little funny that his ban on Men entering Doriath is firmer than his ban on the Noldor (Arafinwean exceptionalism!) despite the fact that there are no recorded crimes committed against Elves justifying it...
Of course, Thingol's intentions in making this decree didn't quite bear out. Although Thingol "would have denied" the forest of Brethil -- just north of Nargothrond-- to the Haladin when they began settling there without Thingol's leave, Finrod intervened on their behalf and obtained the "grace" that they could live there in exchange for holding the Crossings of Teiglin against the forces of Morgoth ("Of the Coming of Men into the West"). But the House of Bëor never did move nearer to Nargothrond, and the ban against the Edain largely stood: Túrin, Morwen, and Nienor were the only ones who were ever invited to enter.
The social attitudes of Doriath towards Men seem to be, pervasively, that the Edain are lesser beings than elves. Saeros feeling free to taunt Túrin by comparing Morwen and Nienor to animals at Thingol's high table is revealing of these attitudes. So too are Thingol's own words and thoughts regarding Beren, spoken in open court:
'What would you here, unhappy mortal, and for what cause have you left your own land to enter this, which is forbidden to such as you? Can you show reason why my power should not be laid on you in heavy punishment for your insolence and folly?’ [...]
But Thingol spoke slowly, saying: ‘Death you have earned with these words; and death you should find suddenly, had I not sworn an oath in haste; of which I repent, baseborn mortal, who in the realm of Morgoth has learnt to creep in secret as his spies and thralls.’
But Thingol looked in silence upon Lúthien; and he thought in his heart: ‘Unhappy Men, children of little lords and brief kings, shall such as these lay hands on you, and yet live?’
But once Dior-- a half-elf, Beren's son-- became Thingol's heir, I think he very quickly realized that Doriath holding these opinions about the Edain was going to start causing political issues for the House of Thingol if left unaddressed.
If Túrin was headed for the Haladin, and ended up near the Girdle by accident evading the forces of Morgoth, Beleg sending word back to Menegroth that he'd rescued the traveling party of Túrin, son of Húrin, must have seemed like an stroke of providence from the Valar to Thingol. Who could be a better ambassador for the Edain-- a better example by which to render Dior's place as Thingol's peredhel heir less precarious-- than the son of Húrin Thalion, the great hero of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, who was known and admired even by the people of Doriath, who barely took part in the Union of Maedhros?
Of course he extended an offer of fosterage to Túrin; of course, Túrin's guard accepted on Morwen's behalf. Who would dare insult Elu Thingol by refusing such an honor, especially having already faced "great perils" to leave Dór-lomin, with a young child in their care? ("Of Turin Turambar"). And of course, Thingol immediately sent messengers to Morwen -- a mortal woman, but famous for both her nobility and her elf-like beauty-- suggesting that she, too, come live in Doriath, an unprecedented honor. I would guess it was extended because Thingol thought that Morwen would serve very well as living proof of the elf-like dignity and nobility the Edain could embody even before Túrin was old enough to display real valor and nobility in his own right.
I think it's both funny and not coincidental that Thingol taking Túrin to fosterage despite his established prejudice against the Edain is simply explained as being because "[...] Thingol’s mood was changed towards the houses of the Elf-friends," with no further justification. But if his 'mood was changed' for pragmatic reasons, he may very well have been justified in doing so.
Because despite the established history of Doriath's prejudice against the Edain, Dior is not recorded as having faced opposition in taking the throne of Doriath on the basis of his Mannish blood. And while this could easily be due to other factors-- namely, Dior already being married to Thingol's kinswoman Nimloth and in possession of the Silmaril before taking the throne, his (or Beren's) victory over the Dwarves who slew Thingol at the Battle of Sarn Athrad, and the lingering memory of his mother's legendary defiance of Morgoth-- Dior was, at minimum, not the first person of Edain ancestry to be welcomed into Doriath, rather than to be derided as a presumptuous intruder for daring to set foot in it. And for that he owed thanks to the examples of Túrin, and Morwen, and Nienor.
