sesame bun

in honor of the last day of mermay:

gil galad was a swordfish king, of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the mountains and the sea.

his legs were long, his bill was keen, his shining fin afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's sails were mirrored in his silver scales.

the Singing Toadfish from @thescrapwitch's would you still love me if i was half-fish, based on @peasant-player's reverse mermaid trend :)

two different types of hunting outfits for celegorm!

Celegorm tends to get pigeonholed into Forest Woodsman, even though he's one of the most politically active feanorians (i think i have another post about this somewhere in my drafts?) - he was one of the few active during mae's captivity, nargothrond obviously, not to mention leading the second kinslaying and the mentions of the cruel servants- so it stands to reason that he must have been on almost as many Social Hunts as running-through-the-woods-in-a-fur-cloak hunts. sure, he loves hiding in bushes and stalking deer with aredhel and the ambarussa, but he's equally comfortable riding and chatting with various cousins while huan does the tracking.

personally i think celegorm likes the hiding-in-bushes type of hunting in the same way feanor goes on backpacking-and-mining trips: he likes it, but it's definitely not the only thing he does. after all, he does have to return to himlad/nargothrond and actually govern.

who shall see a white ship leave the last shore

and at the same time i'm writing maglorath again & am currently on the parts where maglor's going out to himring because he doesn't know where else to go. and just like feanor poured his fea into the silmarils and maglor into the noldolante, there's a bit of nelyo lingering in the old fortress. and so now he's having a full chapter of Brother Tragedies