Tumblr crosspost (17 March 2020)
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anghrainetbh Arvedui would annoy me vastly less if he’d accepted that Fíriel was the rightful ruler of Gondor, not him
tagged: #under arvedui's logic then hallacar should have king of númenor instead of ancalimë #(god forbid) #and herucalmo and pharazôn's usurpations were totally legit #and he argued that his logic was the actual law of númenor akjdfj;kadjkfa #even if fíriel was dead the rightful heir would be /aranarth/ (see herucalmo and alcarin!) #arvedui's only legitimate claim was as heir of isildur and iirc he wasn't even that yet #(and it's debatable too. just not ... actively misrepresenting history) #idc what malbeth says arvedui can fuck right off #honestly i'm not ... ever quite sure what jrrt was doing with the whole 'well in númenor...' shtick #i don't think he meant arvedui to come across as dickish as he seems to me #but it's such a /blatant/ misrepresentation #maybe it's just verisimilitude re: royal claimants #or giving gondor more of a reason to reject him #idk
tagged: #under arvedui's logic then hallacar should have king of númenor instead of ancalimë #(god forbid) #and herucalmo and pharazôn's usurpations were totally legit #and he argued that his logic was the actual law of númenor akjdfj;kadjkfa #even if fíriel was dead the rightful heir would be /aranarth/ (see herucalmo and alcarin!) #arvedui's only legitimate claim was as heir of isildur and iirc he wasn't even that yet #(and it's debatable too. just not ... actively misrepresenting history) #idc what malbeth says arvedui can fuck right off #honestly i'm not ... ever quite sure what jrrt was doing with the whole 'well in númenor...' shtick #i don't think he meant arvedui to come across as dickish as he seems to me #but it's such a /blatant/ misrepresentation #maybe it's just verisimilitude re: royal claimants #or giving gondor more of a reason to reject him #idk