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"Duty is sacrifice. It eclipses all things, even blood. All men of honor must pay its price."

[Lord Cregan Stark 'The Wolf of the North']

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Írimë Lalwendë. In my headcanon, while all three of her full-blooded siblings have the tawny-gold complexions and creaseless lids of the Vanyar, Lalwen came out 100% Finwë. Her hair took me like three days to do, I would like to sleep forever now.

@starshadeemilyart You wanted a tag in this one?

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Balrog: Why do I hear boss music

Based on this post

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Considering the close relationship between the cousins, especially the older ones, I'd say good ol' naro had a soft spot for most of his nephews and nieces, esp Findo, Finno, and Irisse.

Fëanor: Greetings, my beloved sons. And greetings to you, foul brood of my unloved brothers.

Finrod, currently playing songs with Maglor: Hello!

Fingon, lounging on the couch: hey

Aredhel, raiding the pantry: 'sup

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Feanor

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Because this is such a likely scenario. It breaks my heart, but realistically, they were woefully unprepared for a journey trecking across a sheet of barren ice riddled with darkness and dangers. It wasn't a matter of if but rather when they ran out of supplies. That kind of desperation and the piling dead either from the cold or other dangers? Yeah, they became kinslayers twice over in the most tragic sense.

Cannibalism on the Helcaraxe, they could never make me hate you

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I can't believe I've finally found my people. I genuinely believed I was the only one who headcanoned Erestor as Caranthir and Haleth's secret child! On another note: I'm absolutely in love with Erestor's design. He looks absolutely awesome.

when i first designed erestor 3 years back i wasnt totally aware of his potential half-elf status, and since then ive come across some more fanon interpretations of him being haleth and caranthir's kid which i really liked!!!! so ive decided to rework him a little by combining my original lore for him into this concept 👉👈 i ended up getting carried away on whole different tangent with his backstory which ive summarised down below HAHA

tldr to expand on some key points under the cut:

born in F.A. 371 to haleth and caranthir; his parents' romance is short but passionate, and while many of the haladin are initially unsure about the nature of this union, they dont oppose it. for 4 years they live an unconventional but happy life together

haleth leaves thargelion in F.A. 375 and raises erestor with her people once they resettle. he's too young to remember much about caranthir. throughout his childhood she never tells him who his father is, but he also never really feels the need to ask.

he's captured in F.A. 460 (40 years after his mother's death) and escapes in F.A. 510. two years later, he finally finds refuge in Amon Ereb-- six years after the deaths of caranthir, celegorm and curufin in the 2nd kinslaying.

is tasked by maedhros to assist maglor with elrond and elros' education after they're taken in following the 3rd kinslaying in F.A. 538. he becomes a weird mix of a nanny/older brother/teacher figure to them, and a strange but sweet bond forms between them.

entrusted to protect elrond and elros following the break out of the war of wrath. he leads them to the Host of the Valar, where the twins are given the choice of the half-elven; to his surprise, he's afforded this choice as well, and decides to remain elven out of compassion for elrond after elros chooses mortality.

remains by elrond's side to watch over him for most of the 2nd age. during this time he resides in lindon as a healer, translator and archivist; later joins elrond in imladris, and partakes in the war of the last alliance as a combat medic.

in the 3rd age, is beset with sea-longing after what he regards to be a long and tiresome existence; he's also filled with guilt for being unable to help elrond heal celebrian’s psychological wounds, and contemplates following her back to Valinor. ultimately decides to stay back a bit longer, however, and lingers until after sauron’s defeat when the rest of the elves finally depart for the West. 

that's just a very condensed version but one day i hope to explore in some 4th age stuff where he finds out who his dad is...?! or will he?!?! who knows lol

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Those two forever remained as the sons of Nelyafinwe Maitimo Maedhros and Canafinwe Makalaure Maglor. Elros died as a son of Maedhros and Maglor, and Rivendell forever contained "subtle" homages to the House of Fëanor.

I will die on that hill.

Anyone else: the hands that cradled your face and tilted it upwards to kiss your forehead are soaked in unfathomable quantities of blood.

Elros and Elrond: But they cradled me, yes?

(Credits to @queen-of-hobgobblers )

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Elrond: I've never hurt anyone in my life. May Manwe strike me down if I am lying.

*Lightning strikes nearby.*

Galadriel:

Celebrimbor:

Elrond: Didn't strike me though.

Gil-Galad: Oh Iluvatar...

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The irony is not lost on me; the greatest stain on the Firstborn, the epitome of all things elves should never be, having raised the greatest personalities of Middle Earth, rulers and warriors and inventors that all, regardless of race, have looked up to for guidance and as the epitome of all that one would expect of the Firstborn of Eru.

Look, the Fëanorians did awful unspeakable things (despite being my favorites), and there obviously isn't much of a generation after them. But I think it speaks to something that the three children that were raised by the Fëanorians (Celebrimbor, Elrond, and Elros) turned out to be overwhelmingly good. Celebrimbor is generous, so genuinely kind and trusting that it's used against him. Elrond is quite literally described as "kind as summer" he creates a sanctuary for everyone regardless of race and old feuds. Elros is a leader that shapes the fate of a race of men that is pure and good and curious until Sauron destroys them using all that curiosity.

The Blood of those who raised them, their hate, their grief does not seep down into the children they perhaps feel it somewhere deep at the core of their being the weight of the crimes of the elves they called father. But they bear it with raised heads, with kindness and friendship and an attempt to learn from mistakes. Even if they failed in the end they were still so so so good.

and I truly truly hope that says something about those that raised them. that they poured all the love they had left in their rotting weary hearts into those sweet little boys, and made sure they knew always, that history was theirs to live with and to work with, but the crimes and despair, belonged to those who came before them alone.

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Makes you wonder how she must have felt. Learning of the deaths of her beloved husband and children from either the Valar or her newly returned nephew. How heartbroken she must have been. How heartbroken both she and Nerdanel had been in fact. Perhaps the kindest fate belonged to Earwen. She had her husband and her eldest returned.

Of the stayed and the departed.

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As always, exquisite work created by the brilliant artist. We Tolkien fans are spoiled thanks to your insane works.

Between the Mountains and the Sea

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In the end, he became all that his most beloved mother hated. That which he had - as a child - feared: his father. Perhaps that was Maeglin's greatest tragedy. Forever being known as the son of Eöl and not the son of Aredhel.

Of Light and Shadow,

Love and Hate

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WE WERE ROBBED

Remember what they (anime adaptation studio) took from us

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The famous Jugishi kabedon panel

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Jugram Haschwalth | Bleach TYBW "Baby hold your hand 2 [Never ending my dream]

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You know the biggest hate crime in the Bleach fandom? The absolute lack of Jugram Haschwalth content. What do you mean there are just EIGHT Jugram x reader/oc fics on ao3? In total even his tag carries but 14 pages on the site AND IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 3 YEARS SINCE TYBW CAME OUT!

Fellow writers. I beg, we need more Jugram love in this house. I don't even mean romance, just gimme some good Jugram content where he exists beyond being a single mention.