Anghraine

The meme crossed my dash, so: top five things I completed in 2020!

In no particular order:

• For Legendarium Ladies April, an aesthetic post for my quasi-OFC Ithíriel, Elros’s wife in my headcanon
• Another one for their (canon) daughter Tindómiel, first princess of Númenor
• Another for Lothíriel of Dol Amroth (this one took some doing but was fun)
• One for her first cousin and my #1 Middle-earth fave, Faramir
• the gift of men, my Eldarion/Faramir+Éowyn’s daughter arranged-but-happy-marriage fic

I only just noticed that they’re all Tolkien! I had to do a ton of 16th/17th/18th-cent reading irl, though, so it was nice to get far away from all that.

Tagging: heget, heckofabecca, irresistible-revolution, garethsedwards, incognitajones, and tree—if you want!

heckofabecca reblogged this post and said:

#crying once again at how wonderful your lothíriel is

I replied:

Aww, thank you! I’m enormously attached to her <3

Some of the material I’m reading is talking about the peculiar position of foreign brides in maintaining diplomatic ties and their experiences as foreign brides, and I’m just thinking …………. Lothíriel.

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I reblogged this post and added:

I’m imagining a version of Gondor that actually leaned hard into the Byzantine aesthetic and just … *sigh*

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While I’m at it, Lothíriel headcanons:

• Physically, she bears a strong resemblance to her father and her aunt Finduilas, but differs quite a lot in personality—in particular, she’s much more straightforward and assertive, within the bounds of what she considers proper conduct
• She’s bi and aro
• She’s proudly Dúnadan and resists assimilation into Eorling norms, instead maintaining Gondorian customs and habits in her personal conduct/court, which doesn’t always go over well
• Like several others in her family, she has a vaguely preternatural command over horses that makes her a fearless rider, which does go over well

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Passing the time productively: headcanon-ish Éowyn and Lothíriel via this dollmaker (including the link, but it seems to be broken)

(tagged: #definitely my headcanon that éowyn's sea-grey eyes come from the dol amroth side #and i couldn't resist the impulse to put flowers on lothíriel's brow)

I reblogged this post I made in Nov 2013:

Little Estel growing up in a place where no one dies or ages or changes, ever, except him

Estel is Aragorn and it fills his heart with pride and then he falls madly in love with the most unattainable woman on the planet and it means his own grief or breaking up his family eternally

Young Aragorn returns to his people, who he doesn’t actually know, and has to become a Dúnadan of the North, the Dúnadan, when he’s only ever been a not-quite-Elf. His mother dies.

Aragorn wanders all over the globe. At one point he goes to Gondor, the country of which he has to gain kingship at some undetermined point in the future. The Steward’s heir is one year older than he is, looks as much like an ancient Númenórean as he does—looks like his brother, if he had one—and has ancient Númenórean powers to go with his height and face, just like Aragorn. Denethor hates him and Aragorn has to walk carefully around him. He leaves when Denethor’s son, Boromir, is three.

Boromir shows up out of nowhere while Frodo is recovering in Rivendell. Little Boromir is now forty, a massive and supremely skilled warrior. He’s instantly suspicious of Aragorn. But they forge a relationship of mutual respect and perhaps even friendship through their assorted tribulations, yay!

Boromir, who Aragorn remembers as a toddler, dies in his arms.

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I’m not sure why I’m so attached to aro Lothíriel, but … I am. Nobody will shake me from this headcanon!

Semi-relatedly (to this), one of the exam questions is about Aelfwinë from “Battle of Maldon,” so of course I’m thinking about the Fourth Age again.

(I never really expected to have Elfwinë feelings but I do. Like ... it's entirely possible that he barely knew Éomer until the wars subsided. What sort of figure was Éomer? What about Lothíriel? Oh right, we know NOTHING about Lothíriel. C'mon, Tolkien! I have headcanons but it's not the same.)

On the one hand, there are plenty of potential reasons for Elfwinë’s name, in-story and out of it.

But on the other, Lothíriel naming her ~impure~ son ‘Elendil’ is such a power move that I refuse to accept any other interpretation.