For very complicated reasons, @deheerkonijn and I were talking about Elwing and Earendil and I was using my brand-new half-baked Silm knowledge to try to remember what they both were, and in looking back at the book I discovered that Elwing was described as βa white birdβ but not, to the best of my knowledge, given a bird SPECIES.* So we decided that it would only be correct for her to be a goose.
Then we started talking about the fact that this makes Arwen part goose, and all the implications of that. Imagine, for instance, that she and Aragorn have been together for some time in the sweet honeymoon phase of their relationship - and then they have their first fight and she shrieks in rage and a full six-foot wingspan unfurls from her back. (Physically or metaphorically, take your pick.)
THEN we started joking about Elrond being a serious boring dad (yes I know there are conflicting fanon beliefs on this but just go with it for now) because the horrible goose gene skips a generation - but then we hit on the following truly galaxy brain headcanon: no, it doesnβt skip a generation, but it skips a CHILD every generation. So what if Elros had the goose genes and Elrond knew that it would come for one of his children, so when Elladan and Elrohir were born he was watching them very closely, wondering which one would turn out to be the normal one and which one would be the hellion. BUT WHAT IF (in opposition to popular fanon that they are both highly chaotic and mischievous) the twins are actually both very grave, somber, well-behaved children? And Elrond breathes a sigh of relief, thinking his own brother must have been a fluke -
Β - and then Arwen is born, and the horrible-goose energy is unleashed tenfold.
*no one with actual knowledge of the Silm correct me please
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