you both nailed this very platonic interaction good job
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Feels right, feels organic.
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The Kings of the Noldor do not cut their hair so long as they reign. But before taking the throne, each king-to-be cuts his hair in mourning for his predecessor.
Elven hair grows very, very slowly.
Finwë dies surrounded by an ocean of raven-dark hair, spilling around him as blood. Gil-galad's ankle-length hair smolders as fine silver ribbons tossed into fire.
Fingolfin, riding to Morgoth's gate with fire in his eyes, tucks his dark waist-length braid into helm.
Turgon's dark braids fall just over his shoulders as he takes up his great-sword for the last time. Fingon's curls, too short to braid, spill out of his helm and fall in his eyes, sticking his bloodied cheeks.
Fëanor had cut his hair unusually short in mourning of his beloved father; had hewed messily at the braids until his scalp was visible through the uneven tufts of hair. It looks much the same when he dies, the bald spots barely covered.
Morgoth cannot cut Maedhros's hair when he captures him, for Maedhros has already done the job himself.
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Thinking about the transition from Adar on his throne in Mordor to Gil-galad singing in Lindon about the fading of the elves. A fallen elf, a king who has made a kingdom of darkness and one who laments the fading of the light and that to remain in the kingdom he has built would be to “diminish forever into endless night.”
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Sometimes i remember that Círdan is just really fucking ancient and am like actually kinda shocked... like this man has seen almost all of Middle Earth's history, from the shores of Cuiviénen to the second War of the Ring and survived. The only other named elves I can think of right now, who have lived for just as long are Ingwë, Indis and Olwë, but they never returned from Aman. Círdan meanwhile? He just stuck around never having gone to paradise and lived. What a badass. I love him.
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We have the most gorgeous hair in Elvendom, so the three rings should go to us
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rings of power spoilers!!
okay but the fact that they had elrond parallel his mom like that....I'M SO ILL I'M SICK I TELL YOU SICK !!!!
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Golden Leaves (feat. Benjamin Walker)
The king sings
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