Finarfin: This is a reminder that sword fighting in the hallways is still a code of conduct violation.
Finwe, at his wedding with Indis: And now my dear friend Olwe will give a speech for us.
Olwe, stepping on the stage, smirking: Welcome back everybody!
"Fandom isn't perfect" bullshit have you ever hung out with the Silmarilion fandom? Tolkienites are already chill as fuck but the Silm girlies are elite. No drama, no shipping wars, no antis. THRIVING incest community. The fanfic is BIBLICALLY good. Just a bunch of phenomenal artists drawing elf yaoi in perfect harmony and we could learn a lot from them
Elrond : and what did we do when we have a day off from work?
Theanduil : lay in bed all day and move just enough so that people don't think you're dead
Elrond :...
Elrond : no... We do something adventurous, like maybe go outside. And what's the best part of going outside?
Thranduil : coming back inside
Elrond : No-
This was very much inspired by that one sus doctor strange cover (below the cut)
Something something about Curufin really resembling Fëanor. Sometimes Curufin catches his brothers looking at him weirdly. Like, really weird. Maglor standing in the doorway with tears in his eyes while Curufin plays with Tyelpe, softly singing the same songs Fëanor used to hum to them as kids. Or Maedhros going completely silent—teary-eyed silent—after Curufin delivers a fiery political rant they absolutely don’t agree on. Tyelko weirdly saying a soft “thank you” (with a smile, no less) when Curufin quietly replaces his worn-out arrows with new ones. Even Caranthir showing up at the forge, saying nothing at all, just standing there until Curufin asks what’s up and all he says is, “I like watching you work.”
It used to weird him out. Now he kinda gets it. They weren't looking at him at these times... they were seeing echoes. He accepts it. His brothers' pain is the same as his.
Tolkien writing kingdoms' moral decay and eventual decline: they exploited nature, destroyed forests and cut down trees
Tolkien writing male characters' moral decay and eventual decline: he stopped listening to his wife