anghraine: a shot of an enormous statue near a mountain from amazon's the rings of power (númenor [meneltarma])
Anghraine ([personal profile] anghraine) wrote2024-02-28 08:58 am

Tumblr crosspost (19 July 2018)

[Note: cross-posting this out of sequence because I seem to have missed it earlier and a later post references it]

I love the Tindómiel/Undómiel thing not only because Elrond names his only daughter to match Elros’s only daughter (though I do).

And I love it not only because the two names act as counterparts in terms of their relationships to their people: the morning star of Númenor, the evenstar of the Elves (though I do).

I also really, really love it because the morning star and the evening star are the same star: Eärendil.

Tagged: #they named their daughters for their dad :') #and i think it's legit interesting to see priorities there? #in naming i mean #like #2/3 of elrond's kids are named in the sinda family pattern #from elwing #while elros just went all out and named two of his for the valar #his firstborn is named for elbereth!! which seems a very elvish (and esp sindarin) sort of thing #they both have a reference to men in some of the names #but elrond does it with his firstborn kids while elros doesn't until the ... fourth iirc? #again: not what you'd assume! #but the daughters get the Peak Symbolism and that's as eärendil's heiresses #:)))))))))))

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