hi 👋 this is @bratman's tolkien sideblog, I follow & like from there even though I'm consistently more active here (whoops)

✧˖° she/her & 20s & irish & bi. very big music nerd, very ocean obsessed. my name isn't Fiadh but I live in terror of my own digital footprint so for all intents and purposes my name isn't *not* Fiadh. peace and love etcetera ✌️

✧˖° my main interests are the Silmarillion and The Rings Of Power (elves elves elves elves elves)

✧˖° I am aware TROP is a widely debated topic and I am more than happy to engage with those conversations! BUT☝️pointless and needlessly combative arguments stress me out so if you disagree with everything I say and have just come to yell your frustrations I will most likely ignore or block you 🫡 no hate intended. on the flip side, if I reply to YOUR post where discussion wasn't wanted please know any offense wasn't intentional, if you let me know I'll go back to my lane <3

✧˖° my absolute favourite character is Elrond, closely followed by Celebrían. I count the entire subculture of the Teleri as my blorbos. I also love Elwing and TROP's Eärien

✧˖° not really a shipper but an enthusiastic Observer of Dynamics™ except for Celrond because those are my parents who birthed me. in that same vein I don't really take shipping seriously and find it fun to mess around with through a fanon lens, so please consider this blog a neutral + safe space for haladriels, elrondriels, celedriels and any other pairing on the board :) I firmly believe in judging someone's character before their fandom preferences and I don't put up with being nasty to someone just because those preferences are different. Nothing Is Ever That Serious, we're all people behind the screens, etc

✧˖° my queue isn't consistent + I'm slow to answer dm's and askbox + please consider any attempt to reach me as a monthly letter correspondence via carrier pigeon except the carrier pigeon has no sense of direction and the forest is on fire I Love You Though Please Send Me Your Thoughts I'm So Sorry I'm So Sorry + I block to personalise my feed and avoid things I'm not interested in while perusing main fandom tags so it's not a personal thing

The Rings of Power: Analysis

Colour Symbolism in Númenor

Faith As A Moral Obligation & Míriel's Disobedience

In Defense of Elrond

"Haladriel" As An Exploration Of Trauma And The Severance Of Self

Eärien: The Personification of Tolkien's Nameless Wives

we know that she struggles to cope with loss in a healthy way, which is understandable, seeing as death as a concept only became a thing circa 3.5 seconds ago. with Finrod she coped by pivoting straight to action and channelling her grief into a vengeance quest which subsequently stunted the grieving process and left her stewing in a pot of blind rage, BUT with Celeborn it's like she completely buried him within herself, which to me suggests that there could be a certain mystery surrounding the circumstances of his disappearance—disappearance because the word 'death' is never used, so it's not simply a lack of closure that her emotional repression is seeking to substitute, as the grieving process never started in the first place

I doubt Galadriel knows what happened to him any more than we do. the grief isn't stagnant but it can't be turned into action, so she has no other choice but to suppress him entirely, which robs the audience of those memories as well. when he comes crashing back into her life it's like someone's ripping the bandage off a weeping wound, and this new rush of information about Celeborn & their marriage to the audience happens in tandem with Galadriel being forced to process everything for the first time in centuries