miscellanea

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yay, thank you! Love these sad doomed babies.

3. What was their first impression of each other?

I think on Turin's side there would definitely have been some awe and hero worship when he was younger - he was probably very frightened on the trip to Doriath, and then here's this incredibly competent marchwarden who finds him in the wilderness with his guardians and shepherds them to Thingol. For Beleg it was probably more of a businesslike, let's get these people to safety kind of interaction--I kind of see him as more aloof and maybe not the warmest at first, and when Turin becomes a marchwarden there's a period where he has to prove himself and he takes that quite seriously, maybe too seriously, and gets himself into trouble. They both have an "oh no he's hot" moment, or several. Especially Beleg.

20. How do they comfort each other when one of them is upset? Is this method of comfort effective?

I see them as the kind of people who channel their emotions into work--Turin especially does not strike me as a big talker and Beleg, again, is quite aloof and guards his heart closely. So their version of comfort is probably particularly vociferous orc stalking followed by huddling for warmth in a lean-to, with maybe some making out and hand jobs. I think Turin glowers and fumes a lot and Beleg learns the hard way that he requires a more roundabout kind of comfort.

23. What are the defining characteristics of their relationship?

CW: blood

Beleg: That's alright. Is your car okay?

Beleg: You and me!

image title: you will regret inviting me to contribute to any cursed fandom trend because i will take it and i will run with it and turn up late and transform whimsy into actual nightmare fuel.

anyway, meet maglor the reverse mermaid. if i ever came across this fucking guy when out running on the beaches of old lindon, my head would say RUN, my heart would say RUN, and my [redacted] would say …ok look hear me out

thank you for asking me along to the chaos @peasant-player + for running this event, truly the contributions have me wheezing forever and turned a hell week into a much more tolerable one! 🥰

"I will probably just draw a sketch"

This is a master piece

I would hang that up in my old possible haunted mansion

Dinner room decor

Of he runs at me i would not survive cuz I be laughing too hard 😔

I was inspired to draw this by @serregon who posts about them a lot. Thanks to you I ship them now :)

Peek below the cut for an uncensored drawing 👇

There he drew forth his sword, that now alone remained to him of all his possessions, and he said: ‘Hail Gurthang! No lord or loyalty dost thou know, save the hand that wieldeth thee. From no blood wilt thou shrink. Wilt thou therefore take Túrin Turambar, wilt thou slay me swiftly?’ And from the blade rang a cold voice in answer: ‘Yea, I will drink thy blood gladly, that so I may forget the blood of Beleg my master, and the blood of Brandir slain unjustly. I will slay thee swiftly.’ Then Túrin set the hilts upon the ground, and cast himself upon the point of Gurthang, and the black blade took his life.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Also, if I had a nickel for every time a pirate whose moniker starts with the word "Red" lost a limb while saving a child's life, I would have two more nickels.

Which still isn't a lot, but it's weird that both those kids are in the same crew now.