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you live and live and live without ceasing. you don't think you know how to stop. pain and grief find you in their measures, and leave their marks, but never so much as to allow you to be made in a new shape. death comes for you in a thousand guises and you evade it each and every time: there is joy, too, in living against the odds. you fear the end, and fear equally that there is no end, and you will be here forever to be battered by the sorrow of centuries. continue on, continue loving without terror for the future: those you care for may not be with you indefinitely, but once given, care can never be unmade, and there can always be joy amidst trial. companions include: elrond, celebrían, galadriel, celeborn, finarfin, melian.
btw I think fingon as high king absolutely represents a potential threat in finrod's mind. right after the bragollach, finrod's brothers are dead and he can't necessarily rely on thingol for any kind of support that would require him to leave doriath. celegorm and curufin are in nargothrond and i'm sure he has some inkling already of their desire for his kingdom, either current or future. he knows very well what the feanorians are willing to do to people they see as lesser when those people have something that they want. last time, those people were his mother's family. and, last time, fingon made it very clear who he sided with.
I’ve had so much fun seeing the responses to my previous two questions so here’s another for you all!
Tolkien wrote in multiple places that every creature that walks the earth or has ever walked the earth has existed in his world.
So, what creature (or plant!) would you most like to see appear in Tolkien related works or just think would be cool to think about? Living, extinct or fantastical!
I personally have too many to name so I’ll make a separate post but extinct sirenians (manatees and dugongs), dodo birds, moas, extinct monotremes and terrapins, and certain species of ferns just to name a few!
hot new War of Wrath headcanon! The Purge of Gondolin.
If Morgoth sets any great Elvish city as a zombie-filled trap for the would-be saviors of Beleriand, it has to be Gondolin, right? Shining Gondolin, the attempt to rebuild Tirion of old in this new world?
It's process of elimination, anyway: Nargothrond is already dragon-poisoned; Barad Eithel collapsed; Menegroth is all Melian's remnants, growth gone horrifically awry and bloodthirsty; and Himring...re-killing old comrades would be more respite than horror to the Fëanorians, by the War of Wrath.
And nowhere else fell so swiftly, so relatively unburnt, and with such careful malice aforethought, that it could be preserved like Gondolin. Ondolindë, Ondolindë, Ulmo's jewel hidden safe in the valley! No other city was built with such care for saving that which was already lost!
If I were Morgoth, I would've had my soldiers clean it up a little, on their way out. Don’t rebuild anything burnt down, but neaten the rubble. Clear the streets.
Leave most of the corpses where they lay, but move some of them back from the gates. Into the city center, where they’d all been celebrating the festivities earlier that fateful day. Leave enough at the gates that no one’s going to take the time to bury them on the way in, though; some commander will grimly order them set carefully aside. “We will see to them later.”
Inside the city, the streets have been cleansed of ash and blood by the rain that has come since the bright city’s fall. The oily, acidic rain that is the only kind that falls in Beleriand anymore, even with the attention of Manwë and Ulmo, but rain nonetheless. Buildings gleam pale in the sun, in the city that Turgon built.
If I were Morgoth, I'd have set my spells upon the valley such that the dead don’t rise until the host of the Elves (surely with Finarfin, Turgon’s uncle, perhaps even Ingwion his great-uncle) is well within the city, where the corpses are concentrated. With many more corpses behind them, between them and escape. All hungry for the true life of which they have only a mockery.
They are not entirely mindless. They fight with sword and axes, even bows, before nails and teeth. They fight with movements known in life to those who loved them.
They fight with their death wounds, an unlucky few even repaired with orc-stitches, to ensure their ability and recognizeability. Ecthelion with all his burns, Rog swinging his hammer as deadly as when he lived, Duilin swift on shattered legs and Maeglin with his broken back and Turgon crawling out from the rubble of his tower, clutching his shining (screaming) sword, the left half of his skull entirely collapsed...
They fight until they are sliced into pieces truly too small to move.
Including those who die in this battle, of course. They get right back up.
(Do the dead remember, after? Were all their spirits trapped in rotting flesh, by wards for security which Morgoth perverted in secret ere the city fell? Or were they safe in Mandos, and their corpses only empty puppets?)
Not a single elf was not weeping, ere the end of the Purge of Gondolin. They burned the whole city to ash, in the end, to be sure the job was done.
When Turgon reincarnates, Arafinwë cannot look at him for more than a moment. It’s a long time before he can think first of his nephew alive, rather than as a monster he had to hack and hack and hack until it finally stopped moving.
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Top three places in the Silmarillion to add a lawsuit?
3. Doriath
Doriath had an intricate web of courts, and a complex system of procedures developed over centuries. However, Thingol refused to allow the courts to have much authority, and many matters were brought directly to him as a matter of course. In addition, the courts kept very strictly to traditional repayments and compensation, even when such a thing no longer made sense—or ever did in the first place.
2. Gondolin
Turgon inherited the Noldorin court system developed by Finwë and adapted to it the court systems used by the Sindar peoples who made up large amounts of the Gondolindrim population. This union makes the court systems very complicated and unwieldy. Additionally, there are translation troubles as some Quenya words or concepts don't translate into Sindarin, and vice versa, leading to awkward phrasings, glossaries, and weird edge-cases depending on whether you're looking at Quenya or Sindarin translations of the law books. Turgon also, seeing how Finwë was constantly hassled for decisions because of the precedent that the king's decisions can overrule the courts', decreed that this would not be the case in Gondolin; Turgon's only role in the justice system was as enforcer.
Númenor
Like Gondolin, Númenor had the problem of translating laws back and forth. While Quenya was the official language in the early days, the legal precedents were already set by the three houses of the Édain, and each insisted that their customs and language be respected. Thus three legal and customary systems had to be united by Elros Tar Minyatur. While all had been influenced by Noldorin and Sindar law and custom, they had been influenced in different ways, and those two elvish systems also had significant differences as well.
Onto this initial complexity, layers of changes occurred over the centuries. New edge cases arose and needed to be decided. The king's word, which could always cut across the courts, became increasingly important. While Tar Minyatur generally upheld court decisions and refused to cut across them, his descendants were not always so circumspect. New generations of judges and lawyers shifted norms and revised past judgements, especially in inheritance cases as the laws changed. Loopholes were found and closed, or made official. Certain rituals had to be followed, and a case could be lost on the basis that a certain ritual phrase was not said correctly. Some customs fell out of favor but remained technically on the books, such as the ordeal of boiling water or decision by lottery. In short, the Númenorean courts were the most complex and intricate possibly ever in the history of Arda (though rumor has it that the Shire courts might rival them).
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I would personally argue that the enduring Elvish political division in the 2nd and 3rd Ages is not "Sindar vs Noldor" but rather "Sirion vs Balar (and, uncomfortably, Amon Ereb)" -- that is, the remnants of the peoples of Beleriand who were largely isolationist vs those who -- by either choice and ability-- were not.
Notably, Sirion is the explicit destination of:
The refugees of Gondolin, an extremely isolationist polity which did not contribute to the Siege of Angband; did not respond to the Dagor Bragollach, despite their proximity to Tol Sirion; did not admit refugees; and only barely joined the Union of Maedhros. I don't give Turgon much credit for this, because as narratively dramatic as an unannounced relief force is, Turgon denied Fingon and Maedhros the opportunity to plan the battle with the addition of his forces. The western front may not have been the best place for them to be!
The refugees of Doriath, a polity which spent nearly the entire span of Morgoth's residence in Beleriand isolated behind the Girdle, and benefited immensely from the safety brought by the Siege of Angband without contributing anything to it. I am inclined to believe that, considering Thingol's stated distrust of the Northern Sindar, his ban on the Noldor entering Doriath, and the explicit notation that the refugees of Nargothrond were allowed to come to Doriath, that he was not opening his borders to anyone except them.
It is also the likeliest destination for many of the refugees of Nargothrond, who fled to Doriath after Glaurung's attack -- and after Orodreth's ascension to the throne, Nargothrond was increasingly secretive and isolationist and did not join the Union of Maedhros even at Fingon's command. After the Nirnaeth they "did not suffer" other elves to cross their lands, and Annael (Tuor's Mithrim foster-father) ends up in Balar so they were likely turning away all refugees -- and this despite Orodreth's wife canonically being Northern Sindar.
Balar, on the other hand, was the explicit destination of:
The Falathrim under Círdan, who were closely connected to both Nargothrond and the Fingolfinian strongholds in Mithrim
The Northern Sindar of Hithlum, who were vassals of Fingolfin and Fingon (under no known singular leader)
And regardless of whether you accept Gil-Galad son of Fingon or Gil-Galad son of Orodreth, it's very likely that as the seat of the High King of the Noldor, Balar was also home to the Noldorin remnants of Fingon's host that didn't (presumably) get swept up into the Fëanorian forces following the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, which at that point would have included the remnants of the Aegnor and Angrod's forces from Dorthonion, Fingolfin's forces, and Fingon's own forces.
Amon Ereb, which I think is broadly aligned with "Balar" on the "Balar vs Sirion" scale, but probably uncomfortably so (especially after the 2nd and 3rd Kinslayings), was of course host to the remnants of the Noldorin and Sindarin forces of Himlad/Himring/Thargelion, plus a large contingent of the Northern Sindar who were outriders in the plains and highlands of the northeast. The Green-elves of Ossiriand were likely split between the two camps or purposefully neutral.
How does this map onto the political landscape of the 2nd / 3rd Ages? The elven realms east of the Misty Mountains (the Greenwood and Lothlorien) are implied to have a distinctly different character from those west of the Misty Mountains (Eregion, Lindon, and Imladris) despite both being noted to have Noldor & Sindar mixing.
IMO the easiest way to reconcile this is to assume that east of the Misty Mountains, "Sirion" prevails-- this is where the "Sindar princes of the Silvan elves" (Celeborn and Oropher->Thranduil) rule, and most Noldor present are largely Gondolidrim or from Nargothrond. Any Green-elves who were incredibly opposed to the rule of the Noldor likely migrated in this direction to their ancestral homes near the Anduin.
West of the Misty Mountains, on the other hand, I assume that "Balar" largely prevails-- this is where Gil-Galad rules, and where the Sindar of Hithlum, the Falas, and the northern plains --and the remaining Fingolfinian, Dorthonion, Fëanorion Noldor, and some fraction of the Gondolidrim-- spread out in complex ways between Lindon (which encompasses remnants of both Ossiriand and Thargelion), Eregion, and Imladris. It's likely that Harlindon specifically-- one of the last remmants of Ossiriand-- is home to a large body of Green-elves who will not be parted from their homes, but who may have wildly varying opinions on Noldorin rule and ... the 1st Age in general.
(Side note: I do think this works with Gil-Galad son of Orodreth, by the way. It just requires his mother, a woman of the Northern Sindar, to be uncomfortable with her husband's isolationism and refusal of refugees and leave with her son when he's sent to foster/safety on Balar, and for Gil-Galad to identify more with his mother's people -- and by extension, the Fingolfinian and, more uncomfortably, Fëanorian Noldor with whom they had long relationships-- than Nargothrond).
My favorite Celebrimbor headcanon is that he was, in fact, suspicious of Annatar. He noticed the things that didn’t make sense, he was very conscious that he was being directed in a particular direction, he often picked up on parts of Annatar’s story that felt off…
But he knows that Fëanor was famous for being too suspicious to collaborate with anyone, for distrusting everyone who tried to correct him, for working alone and never taking advice or direction, and so Celebrimbor distrusts all his own instincts, he’s internalized very very deeply that his intuitions are Fëanorian and suspect and evil and that the right thing to do is overriding them.
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