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brynnmclean responded to this post:

WHAT. That one about Tar-Minastir???? I… I’m so glad you posted this now when I have a chance to play around with that in the Akallabêth Reboot… :D

I replied:

Ooh, cool! You’ll have to tell us how it goes :D

They responded:

It’s mostly from a “referencing history to help negotiate a renewed alliance” perspective in the campaign and my players probably won’t catch it, but I have some thoughts now about the change in information… especially because I’ve written Fin-galad into this campaign for my own satisfaction… Anyway, I have some Thoughts percolating!

jubaah replied to this post:

telperien and boromir… hundreds of emotional crying emojis… perf

I said:

Right?! And now I’m imagining young Boromir learning about this great ruler who refused to have anything to do with marriage and then turned around and authorized a fleet of warships and him just being 😍

Tagged: #boromir's teacher: and tar-telperiën took no interest in middle-earth and- #boromir (age 12): well ACTUALLY #ajklsdf;jkad i know this is one hundred percent not tolkien's intention and it is one hundred percent my headcanon now #telperiën stanning ace boromir is everything

I have a lot of usernames that I occasionally do something with, but … honestly the best one I've got is tar-telperien.

(With hurinionath and andacielos as the runner-ups.)

#i tried for tar-telperien just on the off chance and then GOT her #i also have tar-silmarien aka WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN #but i think i'm happiest with tar-telperien :) #no slight to hurinionath though

jubaah said:

I still cannot BELIEVE I have nienor and turin-turambar…

I replied:

Haha, good for you!

I’ve been trawling my headcanons tag, and like… 99.9% of them are still dear to my soul.

[Later that day]

Eh, pulling them out of the tags:

- #1 at all times: Darcy is on the autistic spectrum (this is a pretty common headcanon, for kind of obvious reasons).

- Luke Skywalker uses the Skywalkers’ ancestral language with Anakin on the second Death Star; Anakin uses the language when he proclaims “I am your father,” but resolutely sticks to Basic on DSII until he’s reclaimed himself and is dying (I wrote a fic about it here).

- The Stewards’ origins as 1) a family of ultimately royal origin and 2) the descendants of a Faithful family in Númenor come together with the House of Húrin originally going back to a Faithful family established by Númenor’s first princess, Tindómiel.

- Vanozza dei Cattanei in The Borgias is Castilian, a courtesan out of Toledo originally named Juana de Castañeda.

- Darcy and Elizabeth have separate bedrooms along the lines of Congreve’s Millamant and Mirabell.

- The Elvish aesthetic of the First Age is primarily ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek (to go with Tolkien’s Egyptian-Byzantine-Roman influences with the Dúnedain).

- Kuvira from Legend of Korra chose to call herself ‘Kuvira’ after she was abandoned by her parents, guided by her quasi-foster mother Suyin Beifong.

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