#elros tar minyatur

[queerofthedagger]

One thing that's just been keeping me up for a week straight is that, while we tend to associate Elrond as the one incredibly skilled in healing - rightfully so - there is also that "little" titbit of how "the hands of a King [of Gondor] are the hands of a healer," which, infamously, is the line of Elrond's brother.

Which leaves just enough room to speculate that they may have both had a talent in healing, and in turn begs the question of just which part of their ancestry they got it from.

And the options there are all wild in their own right - on the one hand, there is Elwing's side which would make some sense due to Lúthien/Melian, but then in at least one version of the tale at the end of the Fall of Gondolin, it's said that Elwing and her people believed that the 'power of healing in their camp' came from the Silmaril if I remember correctly. Which implies that it's not a skill their line has been known to have an extraordinary talent in.

The alternative option is, of course, Eärendil. Now that means it comes either from Tuor, or it means Idril, which means through Turgon/the House of Fingolfin. And if I think about that too much I might just go insane because oh man the implications.

But also all the ancestral musings aside, just the idea that the line of Gondor's Kings is carrying forth Elros' own talent in healing as this permanent relic, reminder, and tangible leftover for Elrond, of something they shared and learned together? just. man

[tilions]

→ elros & elrond — the first king of númenor and the lord of the last homely house

[braxix]

Elrond: Just a reminder. I choose the kindness. I am willing to pursue other options if kindness doesn't work out.

Elros: And he has a knife.

Elrond: And I have a knife.

[shitty-tolkien-aus]

Elros didn't really exist, Elrond just ran back and forth really fast

[anattmar]

Maglor with Elros and Elrond

[fabulous-feanorians]

I always felt that Elros was closer to Maglor and Elrond to Maedhros, because Maglor needed a king and Maedhros, a healer.

[kitcat22]

Another funnier option would be that neither of them found out until after Elros’ marriage when some confusion arose between Elros and his Wife. Elros then frantically writes to Elrond to ask him what sex is and how it works. Elrond, who has no idea what Elros is talking about, brings this up to Gil Galad, Galadriel and Celebrimbor after a council meeting at which point all three remember, with no small amount of panic, what they forgot to discuss with the twins. This results in one of Gondor’s archives/museums having a stack of letters adressed to Elros Tar Minyatur sent by several famous historical elves. Unfortunately due to the age of the letters and the fact they were written in ancient elvish no one can read them but its is assumed they were important diplomatic messages. If they could read them, the scholars of Gondor might be a little suprised and confused why the adult King of Numenor had received multiple, quite lengthy letters detailing how sex works.

[annoyinglandmagazine]

[arlenianchronicles]

"Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come.”

I was inspired to draw this when Clamavi de Profundis released their cover of the Oath of Elendil, but then I just left it to gather dust in my folders for months loll As messy as it is, I’ve decided to post it anyway because I really do like it (though I wish I had the energy to clean it up more).

Anyways, for context, it’s yet another scenario with Maglor and Tar-Minyatur! Maglor was wandering around the beach, only for Elros to sneak up on him and bring him back to Numenor. As for how Maglor was caught off-guard, I imagine Elros used a trading ship that Maglor was tracking in the hopes of doing some trade with humans, and he didn’t expect Elros to be there.

Then again, I think it’d be funnier if Elros appeared out of nowhere in his fancy king’s ship, and Maglor just stood on the beach staring at him like a dumb crab XDD

[velvet4510]

I must say that the fact that Elrond and Elros both turned out so well says a lot about Maglor. He took them from their parents when they were very young. He raised them. He essentially shaped them into the great people that they grew up to be. Which is astounding to me. How did he possibly gain their trust to the point of love growing between them, after they watched him kill their people and drive their mother into the sea? How did they ever go from Point A to Point B? Somehow they did, and neither Elrond nor Elros repeated any of the great mistakes Maglor made in his life. They turned out alright. Which brings such complexity to Maglor. He did horrible and unforgivable things, but the boys he raised became true heroes in every sense of the word.

[millenariumhappinesstheorem]

Whenever Maglor sings for Elrond and Elros, he quite literally has a captive audience. 🙃

[marietheran]

I’m thinking how at some point Elrond, who definitely saw many Men die during his (immortal) life must have started saying something like “If you meet my brother, give him my love” to them on their deathbeds. And I think it became something of a tradition, something he was actually expected to say and maybe eventually when you had the Rangers of the North leaving Rivendell on some dangerous errand, they would add “I hope we meet again but if we don’t - I’ll be sure to tell Elros...” to their farewells and no one would be sure if that was more heartbreaking or heartwarming

[braxix]

Maedhros: Someone asked how to tell Elrond and Elros apart. It's quite simple when you know what to look for.

Maglor: Elros is the crazed raccoon that infests Himring. His only goal in life is property damage. He is some sort of divine pest or curse for wrong doings on a cosmic level that I can only guess at.

Maedhros: And Elrond has dark hair and dimples when he smiles.

[anghraine]

It's always weird when (some) people talk about the choice of the half-Elven as if they evolve like Pokémon upon choosing their ultimate fates.

Elros didn't become exclusively human. He chose to retain the gift of Men and to be counted among Men as far as that ultimate fate went, but he remained a half-Elf. He didn't gain a beard (even descendants as remote as Aragorn, Boromir, and Faramir can't because of Elros) or most Mannish qualities he didn't already possess and he lived half a millennium.

Elrond chose to be counted among Elves in terms of immortality, but he isn't exclusively an Elf. He's described as both Elf and Man, and as the eldest of Aragorn's people. Elrond's marriage to a full Elf produces peredhel children. Two of them are given names signifying Elf+(human)Man, names which Tolkien translated as "Elf-knight" (in Númenórean Sindarin) and "Elf-Númenórean." Elrond's sons are always distinguished from Elves in LOTR.

Arwen doesn't morph into a human woman when she swears her vows with Aragorn; she still looks like f!Elrond and ageless years afterwards, and she would be very long-lived even if you only counted her married life. She is probably the most emphatically Elvish of any peredhel, but she's still a peredhel. Elwing and Eärendil are, too. Peredhil are peredhil are peredhil.

[art-of-firefly]

Last Day of Happiness - Elwing, Earendil, Elrond & Elros for @nolofinweanweek

It wasn't really what I had in mind for the colors but I got carried away and it turned out super pink.

[usedtobethelegendcreator]

A drawing of the kidnap fam, as seen during the Last Alliance. I think Elrond wouldn’t have had many colors to choose from in his childhood, but Maglor might have managed to give him a couple.