thelioninmybed replied to your post: thelioninmybed replied to your post: 🔥Finwe! …”
yes, yessss, at last you begin to understand
Your v loyal padawan, that’s me
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ok got it: he looks like elros setting out and then he bleaches his hair meticulously once aboard
For #the aesthetic yes!! Do Numenoreans have plastic surgery? If they wanted to ‘stave off age by all means,’ I assume appearance-altering cosmetic stuff was HUGE during this period.
bamboocounting replied to your post: bamboocounting replied to your post:
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didn’t he MAKE all those (man-eating) puppies himself and sauron
after carcharoth kinda, kicking them? orcs having a heartwarming spell
of adopting them and then dying miserably in one of his tantrums
Petty obnoxious mockery via doing the superpowered demigod equivalent of that scene in Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe where turkishdelight!Edmund scribbles a glasses and mustache on that stone lion’s face and jeers at him, seems to be preeeeettttty par the course for both Sauron and Morgoth, I think?
gurguliare replied to your post: gurguliare replied to your post: …
but yeah tolkien is very negative about the intrafamilial marriage!
though he qualifies it with, like, “since they only enforced that policy
after the genetic difference between line of elros and other
numenoreans became negligible,” so it’s not like, CLEAR if … uh … it
would have been fine if they had started when they were quarter-elves ….
I would assume….this might be a lot more sympathetic, if there was a big age-compatibility concern here tho. I’d think a lot of people wouldn’t want to marry someone who would age and die 100 years faster/slower than you did : (God I feel sorry for Elros re: whoever he married. 500 years is kind of a terrible lifespan if you’re the only one of your generation who lived that long – all his hypothetical human friends who he knew when he was young and who built Numenor with him would be dead super early in his lifetime….)
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it’s, what, twenty odd generations? that’s not bad for maintaining a gene line (and anything to make the whole
“Therefore he humbled himself before Ar-Pharazôn” bit actually bad for him)
YESSSSSSSS
And I think Numenorean genes do not really even follow the rules that normal humans’ genes do anyway. I mean, if they became super-tall and elflike and hyper-powerful and gorgeous and stuff in the space of like 4-7 generations (depending on ancestry)? So the reverse with the excessive stickiness of….like, maia stuff resulting in frequent throwbacks should also be a thing! (There was also that thing about how Aragorn looked eerily similar to Isildur’s son Elendur and stuff).
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or – THANKS TO YOUR ICON, if he does a whole richard ii deposition
scene?? complete with props, rolling around in glitter, etc.
I’M CRYING.
But, actually yes! – one of my big headcanons about Sauron’s manipulativeness is that he arranges things so that the person he’s manipulating comes to the conclusions he wants them to come to by themself, rather than just directly convincing/cajoling them into agreeing with what he says. So nothing that would elicit a “huh wait this was too easy and he looks too happy about this!” from Ar-Pharazon.
bamboocounting replied to your post: gurguliare replied to your post: …
“what if he and miriel look like twins” and now I’ve spontaneously
combusted from thinking on time delayed twins/clones, good byeeeee
Askjdghsjh though godddd I am weak about the clone/meaningful/horrifying visual echo potential of the Numenoreans but also just really SO MANY Tolkien characters. Hypothetical….multi-role casting….
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I agree about the being old but in my desire for claustrophobic
court conspiracies: what if he felt the shadow of death just because he
found a gray hair one morning. (and it wasn’t even real; miriel just
took a sharpie to his head while he slept)
This is. The best thing. I have ever read.
The best thing.
thelioninmybed replied to your post: bamboocounting replied to your post:
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The thing about this fandom is, i need you to clarify if the author intended the Attack Sirion AU as cute family bonding
LMAO god thankfully not! It was I think definitely intended as one of those little gutpunch morbid textposts. And ow.
simaethae replied to your post: gurguliare replied to your post: bamboocounting…
b e a u t i f u l
But not as beautiful as Ar-Pharazon, apparently!
crocordile replied to your post: 🔥 – the Trees
Sighs dreamily…. They’re so wonderful aaahhhh
I loooooove the Silm’s descriptive passages! (And a lot of the HOME’s even more).
crocordile replied to your post: bamboocounting replied to your post:
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It COULD be family bonding if the sight of Elwing their sister
awakened in them their pre-kinslaying memories and made them help Elwing
and save Sirion! However even my feanorian-hating ass can’t imagine
m&m being THAT monstrous, I think only some fans are capable of that
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Yeah me neither! However I don’t think the OP was sincerely hating on the Feanorians with that post either, I think it was just Silm fandom being it’s jolly morbid self 😉
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Also I’m pretty sure the majority of Numenorians are descendants
from the house of Hador and they must have mingled before (the very
blonde) Aldarion passes the law abt the line of Elros, so there’s
canonical back up for a blonde Pharazon if you want that hahaha
Very true! Oh wait, is this how the Dunedain in the 3rd age become so uniform-looking – all the blond ppl in numenor got drowned. sorry genetics, tolkien’s here.
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 