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   YEAH DUDE    

   Not to be like “my fic my fic my fic” all the time but the complex
web of reasons that would go into this decision is a big part of it, obv
the mortality thing is huge but men and elves are different in so many
other ways   

!!!! omg I’m glad you liked that. of course i haven’t seen your fic yet, so i’m very interested in seeing how you handle these things! especially because most of the tantalizing bits i’ve seen you post about it are like, the opposite of what i think about the twins! (IN A VERY GOOD WAY OF COURSE, because there’s so little info and ppl can run in such totally different directions in speculating about it). i actually don’t think about them being different at all in most men vs elves ways (especially not before their choice!), i figure any of those differences, to the extent that they do develop, only come later through different experiences. The only Characteristically Elf/Human differences I generally headcanon them having pre-choice are the Athrabeth ‘predilection for being suited to experiencing immortality/mortality’ sort of thing:

‘Nay, tell me!’ said Finrod. ‘For if you do not know, how can we? But
do you know that the Eldar say of Men that they look at no thing for
itself; that if they study it, it is to discover something else; that if
they love it, it is only (so it seems) because it reminds them of some
other clearer thing? Yet with what is this comparison? Where are these
other things?

…

And those among us who have known the Eldar, and maybe have loved them,
say on our side: “There is no weariness in the eyes of the Elves.” And
we find that they do not understand the saying that goes among Men: too
often seen is seen no longer. And they wonder much that in the tongues
of Men the same word may mean both “long-known” and “stale”. ‘We have
thought that this was so only because the Elves have lasting life and
undiminished vigor. “Grown-up children” we, the guests, sometimes call
you, my lord. 

I do think it’s mostly mortality vs immortality – or like, that’s the make-it-or-break-it issue. But I think mortality and immortality can’t really be isolated as neutral things, because they are not neutral people and def not in neutral situations. (in fact, I think in a weird way, if it was neutral, it could possibly be almost the exact opposite
of ‘being like a human’ and ‘being like an elf’ – because elves want
mortality, and humans want immortality.)

(Anyway, in my headcanon, it would be mostly ‘immortality’ since i’ve come to view the pre-choice peredhil as mostly being like humans – it would be Elrond who made more of a divergent choice (both in terms of fate and in terms of heirship) than Elros, but it wouldn’t feel like that, because you know, going off to Numenor and stuff, which is where Edain society/kingship comes in.)

simaethae replied to your post:                   thelioninmybed replied to your post:             …                

   i keep likespamming these discussions on your tumblr where i have nothing to contribute but they’re so GOOD    

simaethae i SUPER appreciate all your likespamming the reassurance that other people like reading these things is very very encouraging and makes me really happy so PLS  never stop!!