Currently reading Sansûkh because I am not able to move around much right now, and I was just thinking how like, all the interspecies ships HAVE to be collaborative works between Mahal and the other Valar, so basically they got together and made OC's specifically to fall in love and get married, and if that isn't fandom-coded behavior, idk what is.
Tldr: the Valar are a bunch of artist friends who get together and make dolls together so they can kiss and fall in love and get married 💕
@tolkienweek 2022 | weapons and objects | kíli’s runestone
If any but a Dwarf reads the runes on this stone...they will be forever cursed. —Or not. Depending on whether you believe in that kind of thing. It's just a token. A rune stone. My mother gave it to me so I'd remember my promise.
—What promise?
That I would come back to her. She worries. She thinks I'm reckless.