anghraine: a shot of an enormous statue near a mountain from amazon's the rings of power (númenor [meneltarma])
An anon on Tumblr said:

First of all congrats on nearing the end of your PhD program!!! Woohoo!!!

Second of all, I’m muy late to the party here (been off tumblr for a bit) but WRT these tags ( https://www.tumblr.com/anghraine/749212904253947904/khazzman-tolkien-elendil-was-called-the ) what do you mean the pregnancies were strange lol how strange can they be…?


[The tags in question: #and that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how distinct and peculiar númenóreans are #fandom has slept on it for decades but they are reallyyyyyy unusual #they have weird pregnancies (and few of them) and horse telepathy and can rarely even get injured much less sick #there's this part where tolkien is trying to mathematically figure out elvish aging (hilarious tbh) and pencils in 'and númenóreans' #that's not even getting into the uncanny valley of númenórean kids...]

My reply:

As for the first point: Thank you! I'm really looking forwards to being done, lol.

As for the second point: anon, I delight in your innocence.

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anghraine: a close-up of a man with black eyebrows and grey eyes (dúnadan)
vardasvapors on Tumblr made a post about the annoying Silmarillion fandom trend of tying everything to the Fëanorians, even when there is zero evidence or even zero probability of a connection. I reblogged it and added:

#god bless #this happened with my arnorian dúnadan post and i'm STILL annoyed

[ETA 4/18/2024: the post in question is about the Dúnadan of the North who enchanted/crafted the Barrow-daggers to break the spells on the Witch-king, the Northern Dúnedain's greatest enemy at the time. Some of the Fëanorian stans who saw it tried to figure out some way this could actually be attributable to them, even though this man was born well into the Third Age, is unlikely to have ever interacted with any Fëanorian, and his work is entirely consistent with everything else we hear of Númenórean knowledge and mystical capacities.]

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