#Tossdir

[a-lonely-dunedain]

the scarf is really useful if your best friend is a teensy fairy bc you can use it to keep her safe n cozy and she can just sit there yapping in your ear (delightful)

[poetry-draws]

@a-lonely-dunedain

[hallothere]

jail, jail for Tossdir!!! (his crime is being a cutie patootie)

[drpumpkins]

This is the BOOP#02 game! You've been BOOPED. Now you gotta Boop someone else's ask box too 🐾 🐾 🐾

Cat!Tossdir has chosen violence (affectionate)

OBSESSED WITH THIS LITTLE DOODLE thank yuo SO much for the boop i am going to Lovingly Smack My Followers

[a-lonely-dunedain]

THREE OF THEM!! <3

reblog to give a plushie to the person you reblogged this from

[elfroot-and-laurels-moved]

never gonna pass up a request to infodump about my lotro blorbo hehe. I feel like you probably already know a bit about Ethedis' backstory, but idk how much lol (I never posted a proper bio for her on tumblr but I keep meaning to do that)

Anyway Ethedis is the daughter of everyone's favorite Elf Who Dies In The First 5 Minutes Of The Game, Talagan Silvertongue!

She was just a baby when he died in the fall of Edhelion, (making her just around 350 years old in present time. baby.) and years after that her mother became too consumed by grief and had to sail while Ethedis was still very young. Elrond took her under his wing after that, and under his guidance she became a loremaster. Her story follows the epic line pretty closely after that point, and she gets embroiled in The War very quickly while trying to avenge her father (idk how much more I should say on that front, I'm trying to avoid too many spoilers for any new players who might see this)

Anyway she's generally very bright and cheerful (canonically being one of the tra-la-la-lally elves from The Hobbit), but the epic line inflicts some Big Trauma™ on her pretty quickly, and it only gets worse from there. Soon enough her sunshine-y demeanor becomes less of a natural expression, and more of a mask she has to maintain to keep herself and her allies from falling into despair. She's told that she has an ability to inspire hope in those around her, which becomes a great burden to bear. She gets it into her head that, because fear and despair are weapons of the Enemy, openly expressing her doubts is something she Absolutely Cannot Do. She's told that she is a light in the darkness, a warmth amidst the cold, and she feels that she's not allowed to be anything else.

She has to eventually learn to open up to her friends about her feelings, learn that she's allowed to be sad around them and that her sorrow isn't some malevolent force that will drag down everyone around her, that she's allowed to need help too, and her friends want to help her. Also she's best friends with my other PC and Traumatized Ranger, Tossdir! (thought about sending in his backstory, but I don't know if you've played Before the Shadow yet and his backstory like, entirely consists of spoilers for that lmao)

And some Miscellaneous Facts about her:

She was friends with Corunir before he went to Angmar and the assumed dead, pestering him with questions about Dunedain history and generally dragging him into her shenanigans whenever he was in Rivendell. it was... not very pleasant for her to hear the other Rangers eventually start referring to him in the past-tense whenever she asked about him.

her in-game surname, Silverspring, comes from both of her parents' names (Silver from "Silvertongue" and spring from her mother's name Ethuilas, "spring leaf")

Will Not Stop Befriending Rangers (even though they keep dying and breaking her heart)

she's not a half-elf or anyone who would otherwise be granted Luthien's Choice™. Despite this, I'm going to find some way for her to get into the human afterlife. She and her best friend Tossdir are a set, you see, I cannot separate them. the Power of Friendship can break the rules, as a treat.

She's also friends with Arwen! There's uh, a lot of internal angst with her about that. Wishing she had the same choice Arwen has, then guilt over that jealously, sorrow at the prospect of losing another friend to a mortal fate, all that fun stuff. (because for most of her story she doesn't believe she can achieve a mortality, and only gets that option after Tossdir and Corunir are dead)

consequently, the knowledge that her friends will eventually die is slowly eating her alive <3 (I promised to give her story a happy ending, never said I'd be nice with how I got there)

Ethedis I care you 🩵

[ao3feed-tolkien]

Collection of Angst and Hurt-Comfort Prompts

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/0O21KQj

by A_Lonely_Dunadan

did a little angst/hurt-comfort ask game on Tumblr, decided to post a ficlets here. a lotta these are short and/or not up to my normal standards but hey it was a fun way to get some practice in :>

the prompt list I revived the asks from here --> https://ift.tt/jTeYClV

Words: 5843, Chapters: 6/7, Language: English

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings Online

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: yeah it's mostly OCs here lol, Margim, Celeair, Ethedis, Tossdir, Corunir (Lord of the Rings Online), Meneldir (Lord of the Rings Online), Gorwen (Lord of the Rings Online), Golodir (Lord of the Rings Online)

Relationships: Tossdir & Meneldir, Ethedis & Tossdir, Tossdir & Gorwen, OC & Meneldir, OC & Gorwen, Celeair/Margim, OC & OC, OC/OC, Ethedis/Corunir, actually not sure if I should tag it as Ethedis/Corunir or Ethedis&Corunir, I'm not sure what I would define their relationship as during the time their ficlet takes place lol, I mean it'll be Ethedis/Corunir Eventually so we'll go with that for now

Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Torture, it's pretty vague tho, Hurt/Comfort, One Shot Collection

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/0O21KQj

[a-lonely-dunedain]

Tossdir's other birds are named like this btw. Tweethedis is the only one that doesn't bully him

[a-lonely-dunedain]

oh yay it's on tumblr so I can reblog it now!

ok right some context bc I realize I never posted about this before: this came about from a prompt thingy in Meril's discord about reversing your OC's personality.

Because loyalty is one of Tossdir's Most defining personality traits Reverse!Tossdir is. well. not that. A guy who abandoned the other Dunedain and just fricked off somewhere else either out of cowardice or selfishness. He wouldn't have thrown in the the enemy though, he's not evil, just not good either. He lacks convection and won't fight for any cause unless he's getting paid for it. I don't fully know what his dynamic with R!Meneldir would be, but I know that R!Tossdir is incredibly cagey about it and changes the story anytime you ask about his family or his past with the Dunedain.

Once the story was that he got into a heated fight with his brother and it escalated so severely that he cut ties with the Dunedain altogether, another time it was that he just grew to hate the thankless and dangerous work of the Rangers and decided to strike out on his own, sometimes it's because he was afraid of the powerful enemies the Rangers had and didn't want a target on his back, sometimes he says he tried to kill his brother, sometimes he says he succeeded, other times his brother was the one who tried to kill him, and yet other times he never had a brother at all. Whatever the case, they aren't/weren't on good terms. (and yet, for some inexplicable reason, he still wears that scarf from him...)

So yeah basically he's everything Duindil thought Meneldir had become in the canon-timeline lol

Anyway it turns out Mammon's Ranger character also would have been a sellsword in the Reverse AU, so we thought it would be funny if they were co-workers. it was indeed funny

Reverse-personality AU with Lanthir and @a-lonely-dunedain 's Tossdir wherein they're sellswords rather than Rangers and Lanthir will not stop yapping about his life XD

It's an interesting kind of AU to explore since "reverse" can mean so many things! 🤔

[poetry-draws]

for @a-lonely-dunedain, her lovely ocs Ethedis and Tossdir, protecting the road south for the Grey Company!

i'm love them

[hallothere]

oh also

tossdir. smol

[a-lonely-dunedain]

hey guys so I have made a Decision. SO did you all know that Loremasters get a war-wolf pet as part of their mounted combat tree? Yeah that's cool and all but it got me thinking...

What if Ethedis' war-wolf was actually Tossdir's wolfhound Ornrif? I'm thinking Tossdir sent him with her when she had to leave the Grey Company, because even if he couldn't follow her he can at least make sure she doesn't have to go alone. 🥺 I just think she needs to have a dog buddy to help keep her sane

"Oh Ornrif we're really in it now"

[a-lonely-dunedain]

Tossdir would throw the fight. he doesn't have it in him to hurt a little kitty cat. can't participate in ginger on ginger violence

(if you don't know the character just go off of vibes)

[a-lonely-dunedain]

I saw the “let’s be shielded by mama” post and was wondering—what’s some of your childhood lore for Tossdir and Meneldir?

aaaaa yes my boys! thank you for asking about them, I love yapping!!!! :D

in no particular order here are some bits of Lore™

Their parents' names are Orndir and Elenath. Elenath meaning "All the Stars of the Heavens" and Orndir meaning... "Tree Guy". I picked those names as a way to explain why Tossdir ended up with such a goofy name while Meneldir's sounds cool and normal lol. Meneldir is just named after their mother with a sky/heaven adjacent name, and Tossdir after their father. Shrub Guy son of Tree Guy.

I'm not sure if this explanation just makes Tossdir's name sound even *more* silly, but idc I'm committed to it now. I love Orndir he was just a big goof.

Elenath was the one they got their red hair from, so thanks to her the population of "inexplicably ginger Dunedain" got two lovely new additions 😌 Everyone say thank u Elenath

oh right, Orndir and Elenath are dead. sorry. :(

They died when Tossdir was still very young. Being Rangers they died far away from home, so to Tossdir it seemed they just left one day and never came back, then later everyone started saying they were, just, dead. They had a funeral for them in Tornhad, but no bodies to bury and it did little to give Tossdir much closure. He was too young to fully understand what was happening, only that his parents were gone and everyone was saying they would never come back.

Anyway after that he started having vivid reoccurring nightmares were he would wake up and find his house empty, go outside and find Tornhand empty, and just be left utterly alone with the sickening feeling that everyone he knew was gone forever and he didn't even know why. He'd usually just wake up crying and have to spend the rest of the night in Meneldir's room.

anyway yeah! that's probably the source of his crippling abandonment issues! fun stuff :(

uhhh on a lighter note! Tossdir and Faeron were childhood besties and got up to all sorts of hijinks together <3

Meneldir gave Tossdir a ton of piggyback rides

Hide-and-Seek was a pretty big deal for Dunedain kids of all ages, and they all took it very seriously. Meneldir was particularly competitive in it, and was usually that one kid who just refused to give up his hiding spot long after he won (I hc him as a Burglar, so stealth is kinda His Thing).

Tossdir always sucked at the hiding part, but he was an uncannily good seeker and could always easily pick Meneldir out of even his best hiding spots when they played together

Meneldir pretended to be annoyed by this, but deep down he was very proud of his baby bro <3

[a-lonely-dunedain]

Meneldir slips away. He is gone.

so. I finally remade this old thing in all the heart-wrenching detail it deserves. I'm sorry, in my defense- I actually don't have a defense.

[a-lonely-dunedain]

the "platonic explanation" is that I feel like shipping cheapens a perfectly good friendship and turns it into something shallow. Takes something that could have been interesting and turns it into just another dime-a-dozen romance you can find in a million other stories. Sands off anything cool or unique about the relationship and the characters so they can slot neatly into some little "A and B" dynamic. The Sunshine x Grumpy the Blue-coded x Red-coded the Cinnamon Roll x Killer. You just have to cut them down to fit in the Romance Box™.

Suddenly every interaction, every look they exchange, every word they speak, has to be seen through the lens of attraction, it HAS to be about the attraction, nothing else matters, they cannot have feelings about each other unrelated to that. If they like each other it's because they are attracted to each other, if they hate each other it's because they are attracted to each other, there can be no other reason behind their actions and feelings, nothing else about them as people matters anymore. They aren't people anymore, they aren't characters anymore, they are just "A and B".

The "platonic explanation" is that lately I've just found friendships SO much more compelling and freeing and cool, y'know? (obligatory ''I'm not bashing you if you like shipping I just Do Not Get It Personally'')