#*vanyar

Because of fandom events, I started this series off in the middle. Check out Appendix C for my Gondolin Week contributions, and stay tuned for the rest of the elves coming soon!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Appendix A: Cuiviénenyarna, Vanyar, Misc. Noldor (you are here!) Appendix B: House of Finwë (work in progress) Appendix C: Gondolindrim, Nargothrondrim (work in progress) Appendix D: Teleri, Avari (not yet posted)

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CUIVIÉNENYARNA

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Elf-fathers and Elf-mothers ft. Imin, Iminyë, Tata, Tatië, Enel, Enelyë The story of the Cuiviénenyarna is repeated here pretty much the same way it’s told in canon. I am aware that it’s apparently Cuiviényarna, “Story of Awakening” rather than “Story of the Waters of Awakening,” but...I like my version better, so suck it. There seems to be some in-universe doubt about whether or not this story is actually true, and personally I don’t think it is, so I present it here as a framing device for a fictionalized version of the Awakening, rather than truth verbatim.

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VANYAR

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Ingwë ft. Ingwë, Ingalaurë (OC), Antarë (OC), Tinwë (OC), Ingwion Antarion, Teleptië (OC), Arnalaurë (OC), Ilion (OC; inspired by Ilion), Altacallo (OC) Right of the bat, let’s make a few things clear: I came up with these headcanons before the release of NoMe, so while I’ve tweaked a few things here and there to fit in the new ideas from that book, I largely regard it as non-canonical. Thus, my OC for Ingwë’s wife is named Antarë, and she is not the semi-canonical figure of Ilwen! Nor is my Ingwë the son of Ilion, a descendant of Imin; I’ve already established that Imin does not actually exist, so I’ve moved Ilion down a generation to become one of Ingwë’s sons. Since I ignore the buckwild, nonsensical calculations that give us “Tree Years” lasting 10x as long as Sun Years (not to mention the whole concept of a yén being 144 years...!), my timelines are much more condensed than those that take Tree Years into account. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to me that Ingwë, Finwë, Elwë, & co. could be Unbegotten: there’s only 50 years between the first elves Awakening and Melkor being thrown into Mandos for the first time, which is just enough time for elves to get a society going and start having kids and dealing with death and other unpleasant things, but certainly not enough time to get four or five generations after the original Wakers. tl;dr: My Ingwë is Unbegotten, and yes actually that makes perfect sense if you ignore Jirt’s terrible, terrible math. Moving on! Canonically, Indis is the daughter of Ingwë’s sister. Here, I’ve messed with gender, making Ingwë’s sibling amab nonbinary instead, but still the parent of Indis. I named this character Ingalaurë in an attempt to reincorporate that name into Indis’ family tree, as it was considered as a mother name for both Finarfin and Finrod before Tolkien settled on “Ingoldo” instead. The reason Ingalaurë spends so long in Mandos is because Námo doesn’t understand their nonbinary gender and keeps trying to force them into a box; other nonbinary elves cave under the pressure, or pretend to go along with it and then revert to their true identity when they’re reborn, but Ingalaurë is resolute and refuses to budge (very Vanyarin of them, imo). The main story of the elves leaving Cuiviénen is canon, though I’ve filled in the gaps with a lot of headcanon and OCs. We don’t know anything about Indis’ parents other than that one of them is related to Ingwë, so my headcanons about Ingalaurë dying and their wife founding Valmar are entirely my own. Ingwë did found Tirion with Finwë before moving to Valmar. I always thought Ingwion’s name to be incredibly uncreative, but rather than interpreting it as more of a title than a name I decided his parents were just really stumped on names and gave them their own names—thus his mother-name is Antarion, “son of Antarë”! We know that Ingwë had more children than just Ingwion because of Finwë’s complaint that Ingwë and Olwë have oodles of kids while he only has the one (in asking for permission to remarry), so I gave him a handful of OC babies. Teleptië is the only girl. Arnalaurë is actually nonbinary like their father’s sibling Ingalaurë, but because of the Valar enforcing a gender binary they don’t realize it until much later; they do, however, have dreams of Ingalaurë in Mandos, and seek out the Dreamlord and his wife for help interpreting them. Eventually the Valar take a step back and reconsider things (they weren’t being intentionally malicious, just really bad at understanding the Quendi) and thus Ingalaurë is allowed to be reborn without compromising their identity, and Arnalaurë has their own gender revelation. Estë’s epithet “Iscanindë” means “pale one” and is my headcanoned translation of her sobriquet “the Pale.” As mentioned before, Ilion is the name of Ingwë’s father in NoMe, repurposed here as the name of one of his sons. Altacallo is a warrior, and followed Ingwion to war at the end of the First Age; the rest of their siblings stayed behind.

Ingalaurë ft. Ingwë, Ingalaurë (OC), Alcariniel (OC), Indis I already talked a lot about Ingalaurë in the notes for the previous edit. Alcariniel’s name looks like it means “daughter of glory” (and it could mean that) but I actually translate it as “glorious star,” like how Undómiel and Tindómiel mean “star of evening/morning” rather than “daughter of evening/morning.” Indis’ mother-name is a direct translation of her epithet “the Fair.” Indis and Míriel being friends is a headcanon (though it’s so popular it’s fanon; my particular take on how they became friends is more unique). 

Ingwion ft. Ingwion Antarion, Ilwen Eldacalië (OC), Ingil (OC), Airiel (OC), Lirindo (OC), Meril-i-Turinqi Pretty much all we know about Ingwion is his name, who his father is, and that he led the Vanyar in the War of Wrath. It’s canon that he freed Eglarest toward the beginning of the war. Everything else is my headcanon. I like the idea of Ingwion marrying his cousin as a way of showing that cousin marriage among the Eldar, particularly among Eldarin royalty, is really not a big deal. Thus, Ingwion’s wife is the daughter of his uncle Tinwë, who met a lovely Telerin lady in the Halls of Mandos and married her when they both were reborn. I’m repurposing the name Ilwen, NoMe-canon for Ingwë’s wife, to be the name of Ingwion’s wife instead. I did already have a name for Ingwion’s wife (Eldacalië) but it actually worked out well for her to have two names, given the format I chose for this graphic. “Meren Calmalírë” is Quenya for “Festival of Lamps and Song,” a reference to the festival Ingwion helped organize during the Darkening. (That’s also a headcanon.) We don’t know if Ingwion had any kids, but we do know that Meril-i-Turinqi is Ingwë’s great-granddaughter, so I decided it made plenty of sense to have that relation be through Ingwion. Thus I gave him two daughters: one entirely an OC (Meril’s mother) and the other definitely still an OC, but with names repurposed from her father’s rejected names. Ingil was Ingwion’s name in BoLT (where Meril also appears); Nielluin was an early name for the star Helluin, which according to Meril is Ingwion in the form of a blue bee (???) that followed Telimektar into the skies and became a star. Absolutely wild BoLT nonsense there! I reconciled that by having Telimektar become a Maia of Tulkas, and married him off to Ingil Nielluin. Thingol can’t be the only elf to ever marry a Maia!!! As for Airiel, we know that Meril is related to both Ingwë and the Teleri (well, Solosimpi, but you know what I mean), so I had Airiel marry a grandson of Olwë. I find Meril-i-Turinqi a fascinating character, and decided to keep her as the Queen of Tol Eressëa—but as a fun twist I decided she was elected by her people rather than inheriting the title through her royal ancestry. We don’t know if Ingwion actually spoke for the Exiles after the War of Wrath, but we do know that’s when the enchantment was lifted blocking ships from coming to Aman, and since I connected Ingwion’s granddaughter to Tol Eressëa and thus the returned Exiles, I thought it fitting to tie him into that part of the story as well.

Elemmírë ft. Elemmírë, Calima (OC), Tríwath (OC), Elenwë Trans Elemmírë my beloved <3 Pretty much everything here is headcanon, except for Elemmírë composing the Aldudénië. Elemmírë’s name originally having been Elenwë was fun to come up with, and makes Calima naming her daughter Elenwë that much sweeter :) Terenlaimo will show up again in a later edit under a different name, though not for quite some time. Elemmírë and Maglor’s connection was also quite fun, and I may write a fic about them sometime in the future. Also, I think it’s funny that baby Maglor had a crush on the much older Elenwë...only for Turgon, who’s even younger than him, to end marrying her! Glorfindel as the son of Findis and Elemmírë is one of my favorite headcanons. His name “Alcarinquë” means “glorious,” but like Elemmírë’s name, it’s also the name of a star. There’s a bit more to the story of Elemmírë and Findis, but that will be covered in a later edit.

Amárië ft. Fëarillo (OC), Estelmë (OC), Amárië, Laurorno (OC) Literally everything in this edit is headcanon, except that people thought Finrod and Amárië would get married but she didn’t follow him to Middle-earth. It took me a long time to settle on Amárië headcanons that felt right, but now that I’ve gotten here I’m pretty pleased about them :)

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MISCELLANEOUS NOLDOR

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Daurin and Tórin ft. Daurin, Tórin, Liatamë (OC), Calarië (OC), Quildalótië (OC), Sinwatië (OC), Nasarion (OC) Daurin and Tórin were both names of a proto-Fëanor character from early drafts of the Silm who died defending the Trees when Melkor and Ungoliant attacked. I’ve split him into two elves, brothers, who are instead die-hard Fëanor supporters. (Well, Daurin is. Tórin never got the chance.) Again, literally everything here is my headcanon. I’m especially pleased with the idea of Daurin’s daughter marrying Fëanor’s son, and with the dramatic irony of Daurin and Tórin getting so close to a reunion but then Daurin beefs it. It was also a lot of fun to fit in OCs to known tragedies in the Silm that don’t get to eat up any named characters: Uinen drowning the ships, the “few friends” that stood by Fëanor when the Balrogs surrounded him, and the Fëanorian followers who went through all of the First Age only to turn on their lords at Sirion.

Ñolyo and Silindë ft. Ñolyo (OC), Silindë Maidros (OC), Míriel Þerindë More 100% headcanon! This series gets more self-indulgent with each installment, lol. I knew that since Míriel had an -iel name that she wouldn’t be Unbegotten, but I also knew I wanted her to be at Cuiviénen, so thus she became one of the earliest elf babies. We know that elves died and disappeared at Cuiviénen, so her parents became victims. I go with the version of orcs that are twisted from elves (at least, the earliest ones are), and Silindë drew the short straw there, poor girl. As for Silindë turning into Maidros...okay this one is really self-indulgent, but I thought this was a very fun way to reincorporate “Maidros grandfather of Fëanor.” Instead of being Finwë’s father (or a proto-Finwë’s father), I made Maidros be Míriel’s mother! And the connection between the names Maidros and Maedhros came about through their encounter in Angband, where Maedhros learns about the origins of orcs and meets his long-lost great-grandmother in one fell swoop. And, as you’ll notice has become a pattern, I’m always going to give my characters a happy ending when I can, usually through reembodiment...though they’ll go through a hell of a lot of pain before they get there.

Remwë and Satya ft. Remwë (OC), Satya (OC), Landion (OC), Nindion (OC) Meet a bunch of my OCs! I made these guys up to A) fill in Nerdanel’s (extended) family tree and B) have some named characters as part of the Houses of Gondolin. Since these are all OCs, everything about them is entirely made up. Their stories are also covered in the Gondolindrim edits.

Mahtan ft. Mahtan, Ontamë (OC), Þennë (OC), Nerdanel Mahtan’s life before Valinor and the origin of his names are all headcanon, though each one of his epessi are canonical. I cover Þennë’s story more in the previous edit with her husband. Istarnië is a rejected name for Nerdanel that I repurpose as her amilessë and translate as “wise tears.” I go into my headcanons about that name in this fic. The translation of Nerdanel as “manly woman” is also my own. The details about her sculptures are taken from canon. I had fun coming up with my Fëanor/Nerdanel romance! I’m very fond of those headcanons. Also you may have missed the implication, but they DEFINITELY got elf-married before they were “supposed” to, and Nerdanel was already pregnant with Maedhros at the ceremony!

Anairë ft. Veryo (OC), Sarnë (OC), Manyaro (OC), Lindalëa (OC), Sendiel (OC), Anairë, Lúnalótë (OC) More OCs, this time for Anairë’s family! This is entirely headcanon, except for the part where Anairë marries Fingolfin :P Since Anairë’s name means “holiest” I decided that her family would be very devout and religious, and built their story from there. Lindalëa was originally a Noldo in my head, but recently some discussion among friends reminded me of the drafts where Anairë’s name was Alairë and she was Turgon’s wife rather than his mother, thus taking the place of Elenwë, and was a Vanya. I think it would be very interesting to have Fingolfin marry another half-Vanya/half-Noldo elf; it would certainly give them something to bond over, so I changed Lindalëa to be a Vanya. Here is another appearance of my headcanon that Anairë is a devotee of Nessa! “Melestamma” is a tweak from one of Nessa’s rejected names Melesta, “beloved”; just to make the names flow better together, I added the -mma, making the name mean “our beloved” (the same way people refer to God as “our Father”). I am fond of the idea of Anairë and Fingolfin being an arranged marriage, very proper compared to Fëanor’s wild courtship of Nerdanel, but I do very much believe they were in love! It was just a less exciting kind of love, lmao. They are very happy together (until, of course, they’re not). Lúnalótë and her family are getting their own edit so I can better expound upon the horrible ways they all die :) I have many thoughts on the origins of orcs that I’ll go into later; here’s another glimpse into that with Veryo’s fate. Also, I can’t bear the thought of Sarnë fading away into oblivion—elven fëar are bound to Arda, so I believe that elves who fade are still able to be found and reborn, especially if they’re lucky enough to be discovered by a friendly Maia shortly after their death like Sarnë was.

Lúnalótë ft. Lúnalótë (OC), Nermindil (OC), Awaldiel (OC), Hyartamo (OC), Úriel (OC), Mámalindë (OC) Once more, everyone here is an OC and therefore entirely made up by me!! I’m definitely interested in the lives of non-noble/royal characters and since we get so few of them in the Silm I’ve got to make some of them up myself. Nermindil’s name was inspired by a Gnomish word “nermi” meaning “a fay that haunts meadows and river-banks”; I’m all about adapting rejected concepts into the larger Legendarium, so I thought it would be interesting to include field spirits (aka Maiar of Yavanna) into the lives of Amani farmers...and how those kinds of spirits would be different in Middle-earth. I always imagined that the Nolofinwëans had cousins on their mother’s side, too, so here they are! (I can imagine Anairë bemoaning Findekáno falling in love with Maitimo: “You have cousins on my side of the family too! If you were going to pick a cousin couldn’t you have picked one of them?? Mámalindë is single! He’s very nice!!”) The chaos of the Darkening probably deeply affected the farmers in Aman, and while I can’t imagine the Valar letting the elves go hungry it must have been devastating to see the fruits of their labors shrivel up and die amid the Darkness. So thus Lúnalótë’s family were tugged in the direction of the Exiles by Hyartamo’s Fëanorian wife...and they each meet their own grisly end. Again, here’s an exploration of the unnamed casualties in the Silm: a Noldo killed at Alqualondë, a Kinslayer drowned by Uinen’s storms, Maedhros’ company of soldiers he took to parlay with Morgoth, another victim of the Helcaraxë, a casualty of the Lammoth...and then poor Nermindil is the only one left :( At least he gets to be friends with Fingolfin, and do eventually get their happy ending after they all go through hell. “Nandil” is a Sindarization of Nermindil, and means “valley friend” rather than “friend of field spirits,” representing the loss of that companionship.

Ezellë ft. Poldamaitë (OC), Cútasar (OC), Ezellë (OC) Once more, an OC edit! (I promise we’ll get back to canon characters soon!) Ezellë is Maglor’s wife, and she was my very first Silm OC, so she is very near and dear to my heart <3 I came up with Poldamaitë and Cútasar to flesh out her backstory, and they ended up in Gondolin when I was doing those edits. For a narration of Ezellë and Maglor’s reunion, check out this fic! (It’s not 100% canon to this edit series, but it gets the gist of things across)

Bruithwir and Finrun ft. Bruithwir, Finrun A shorter one, for once! (That’s because I was originally going to include them with the next edit, but things kind of separated out when I began writing the captions.) These two also appeared in the House of the King edit, and their story is the same here, but with a little bit more detail. I explained their origins in the notes of the other edit, but here it is again: Bruithwir was the name of a proto-Finwë character in the Book of Lost Tales; Finrun was the name of a fourth son of Finwë mentioned just once in The Shaping of Middle-earth. Instead of trying to squeeze them into the Finwëan family tree, I’ve just repurposed their names to use as early Noldor, though I have made them (Unbegotten) brothers as a nod to their technical relation. “But wait,” you cry, “they don’t look like they’re related!” Well I have two things to say to that: 1) give me a break I’m trying, and 2) they’re Unbegotten and their brotherhood is entirely a thing of the fëa since they don’t have actual parents.

Lambengolmor ft. Quennar i Onótimo, Rúmil of Tirion, Ailios Gilfanon, Evromord, Penlod, Pengolodh I purposefully didn’t include Fëanor here even though he is one of the Lambengolmor because he’s going to show up later, and he kind of did his own thing. We don’t know the details of Quennar and Rúmil’s origins, nor their relationship to one another or anything about their personalities, but we do know they were both scholars in Aman and the details of their writings/studies are mostly canonical. Lambessë is my Quenya translation of the Sindarin L(h)ammas. I invented the origins of i Equessi Rúmilo, but in researching that it reminded me a lot of the Socratic dialogues so I kind of channeled that vibe. We know less about Quennar than we do Rúmil; check out his TG article to get a rundown on their interpretations of his story, which I adopted myself for the most part. Rúmil is assumed to not have gone into exile, where Quennar is assumed to have finished his work in Middle-earth. There’s a note in The Lost Road that suggests that Rúmil was “one of the Noldor who returned to Valinor with Finrod” (at that point, “Finrod” was the name of the character who would later be known as Finarfin), so I have him going into exile but turning back after the Doom of Mandos, while Quennar continues. The only logical place for Quennar to go in Beleriand is Gondolin, so I stuck him in with his loremaster students in the House of the Pillar. (See that edit’s notes for info on my decisions about that; since I didn’t think to include Quennar there, I just kind of made him a secretive recluse here to explain his absence. Oops.) Quennar’s great work was about the differences between Tree time and Sun time, but since I elect to ignore most of those, I kept the details vague (but I imagine he wrote more about the differences in calculating time in those different conditions, rather than 1 Tree Year = 10 Sun Years). In the Book of Lost Tales, Rúmil was the old door-ward at the Cottage of Lost Play, but was later replaced by Evromord; I just had that happen literally, so Evromord took up his position when Rúmil retired. Evromord and Gilfanon were there when Eriol shows up way later; they’ll appear in another edit soon. Pengolodh only appears here briefly, but he will also show up again in an edit more focused on later Ages.

Tulkastor and Valwë ft. Tulkastor, Ñandellë (OC), Maryalassë (OC), Lanyaro (OC), Naimi, Vairilmë, Valwë, Culdiel (OC), Lindo, Vëannë These characters were adapted from The Book of Lost Tales, so naturally I had to do quite a bit of fanangling to make them fit into later canon. It was said of Tulkastor that he “was of Aulë’s kindred, but had dwelt long with the Shoreland Pipers, the Solosimpi, and so came among the earliest to the island”; I interpret this as him being a Noldo who lived with the Teleri. I lengthened the name “Vairë” to “Vairilmë,” since I don’t think anyone would name their child after a Vala directly, something that Tulkastor’s own name points to. Naimi is canonically Vairilmë’s niece, so I invented a family tree (see below) to explain that relation. That tree also shows Lindo’s ancestry. Lindo is one of the storytellers of the Cottage of Lost Play in The Book of Lost Tales; his father Valwë is mentioned to be a companion of the Vala Noldorin (later adapted into the Maia Salmar) who went to “find the Gnomes” (Noldor) around the time of a battle that vaguely resembles what came to be the Fall of Gondolin. I mostly needed more people to put in Gondolin, but it is nice that he happens to be somewhat connected to the early versions of the story. Tolkien Gateway unfortunately doesn’t have much on him, but you can find this info in BoLT if you go looking. Vëannë and Ausir are children at the Cottage, but we know nothing about their relationships to anyone. I like to headcanon them as cousins, and to connect them to the rest of the Cottage cast, I made Vëannë the daughter of Vairilmë and Lindo and Ausir the son of Evromord and Ailios, making them cousins through Lindo’s mother’s family.

The Cottage of Lost Play ft. Rúmil of Tirion, Quennar i Onótimo, Evromord, Ailios Gilfanon, Ausir, Lindo, Vairilmë, Vëannë, Ilverion, Meril-i-Turinqi This is mostly headcanon extrapolated from the canonical details we know about the Cottage. I’ve given it a clearer purpose/goal as well as a history of its occupants and keepers, incorporating this weird relic of BoLT into the later Legendarium. Rúmil and Evromord are connected characters (Evromord was considered to replace Rúmil at one point), so I had Evromord take Rúmil’s place when he retired. Gilfanon’s “House of a Hundred Chimneys” is still kind of a mystery, but I guess the guy just really liked chimneys? I made Ausir his and Evromord’s son, and Evromord became Lindo’s uncle, so Vëannë and Ausir could be cousins :) Lindo and Vairilmë were the keepers of the Cottage when Eriol showed up, so I think Evromord and Gilfanon took a step back from running things when they had a kid, letting their friends do more of the work (though they also have a kid around the same age). My headcanons for Ilverion (aka Littleheart) are complicated (he’ll show up again in a later edit when I get to Voronwë), but basically I made him a teacher at the Cottage. And of course Queen Meril gets a cameo because she meets Eriol too!

Erestor ft. Curulaer (OC), Lagrieth (OC), Erestor 100% of this is headcanon, except that we do know Erestor lived in Rivendell. The “new friend” mentioned in the last sentence is, of course, Glorfindel. They will both show up in a future edit about the people of Imladris.

Messengers ft. Baralin (OC), Mantariel (OC), Gelmir the Messenger, Arminas, Arachon, Bregil, Brandir Bregilion, Beldis In canon, Gelmir and Arminas are both implied to be Calaquendi from Aman. However, I thought we had plenty of Calaquendi elves already, so I changed Gelmir to be half-Sindarin and half-Noldorin, born in Middle-earth. Arminas is still from Valinor. They were canonically part of Angrod’s people, then fled to the Havens when Dorthonion fell. Their meetings with Tuor and Túrin are from the text as well. Everything else here is complete headcanon; Gelmir’s parents are OCs, and not only is there no indication that Arachon and Gelmir are related, Arachon is probably actually a human! If you read my disclaimer on Bregil’s edit you’ll see my explanations for that choice there. “Gelmir” probably translates to “jewel-joy,” which Tolkien Gateway notes is interesting because usually “mir” would turn into “vir” in a compound like that, but they also mention that the Northern Sindarin dialect did not have that change, so I thought it made sense for his father to be of those people! I identify Baralin as “an Edhel” rather than “a Sinda” because “Sinda” is actually a Quenya word, and this early in Sindar-Noldor cultural exchange I don’t think the term “Thennedhel” (aka “Grey-elf”) would have caught on, at least not as a word for self-identification.

Noldorin Servants Galdor of the Havens, Cúlalmion (OC), Redoril (OC), Ferior (OC), Athaenir (OC) As you could probably guess from the abundance of OCs in this edit, literally everything here is headcanon, except that Galdor did in fact attend the Council of Elrond. I decided that, in my personal canon, this Galdor is not the same as the Galdor of Gondolin; instead, I go with Tolkien’s later suggestion that “Galdor” is simply a common Sindarin name, which is further evidenced by the existence of Galdor of Dor-lómin, an entirely separate (human) character. Since “gal” can mean both “light” and “tree,” I chose this Galdor to have the tree-name and the Gondolin one to have the light-name (which, in retrospect, is kind of funny because the Gondolin Galdor is literally the Lord of the Tree...but whatever, it can have a double meaning).

Imladrim ft. Elrond Peredhel, Celebrían, Pengolodh, Glorfindel, Elladan, Elrohir, Arwen Undómiel, Erestor, Lindir Well, I didn’t intend for this to get this long, but...oops. Originally this was just going to cover the Third Age, but then I realized I’d included Pengolodh here and he sailed for Valinor after the War of the Elves and Sauron, and I didn’t have any other place to put his story so I just bit the bullet and started to narrate Imladris’ history from its foundation in the middle of the Second Age, lol. Elrond’s personal edit covered a lot of that stuff, but I went into more detail here, so hopefully that’s...interesting? at least. Pengolodh’s story is mostly canonical (with some embellishments); I took some liberties with what he did immediately after the fall of Eregion, since I needed him to end up in Rivendell for a least a little while, and I made up a bit of the cultural impact around his writings, but everything else is canon. We don’t know what Glorfindel’s exact duties and positions were in the Second Age, but he did end up in Rivendell by the Third Age so I decided it would be fine to place him there earlier, since he’s got a personal connection to Elrond through Turgon and Eärendil. The bit about people being suspicious of him since he looks/acts a lot like Annatar did at the beginning is fanon (though I don’t remember where I first saw it). I send him back to Middle-earth with the Blue Wizards, and I also throw in an Avarin elf with a similar mission, though she only makes a very brief cameo in this caption. Durin V in particular being the leader of the dwarves during the Last Alliance is a headcanon, but it’s around the time when he could have lived. I don’t think it’s specified if Elrond was the one to deliver Valandil, but he was born in Rivendell so it makes a lot of sense. Canon places Gil-galad giving Vilya to Elrond much earlier, around the time when Elrond officially becomes Lord of Imladris, but I don’t think he would give up both his Rings of Power, so I have him give Narya to Círdan at that time but keeping Vilya for himself until later. I don’t think he passes Vilya on to Elrond until the War of the Last Alliance, because he can feel his doom approaching—something that Elrond, at that time, does not want to accept (though he knows it too). But that’s all headcanon, and actually goes against canon in places. I also think it’s more impressive if Elrond could hold Rivendell without the Ring for half an Age; I think he had his own magic from the line of Melian and was able to set up something like a Girdle around the valley, later strengthening it with Vilya’s power. We don’t know the details of Elrond and Celebrían’s courtship, so I kept it simple. Arwen’s crafts of smithing and weaving are headcanon, though we know she’s at least enough of an artist to make Aragorn’s banner. I greatly simplified the war with Angmar; you can read about that in more detail in the Royalty of Arnor section of this series. Everything about every depiction of Glorfindel and Erestor’s entire relationship is completely fanon, and since my Erestor is aroace and I prefer Glorthelion, I like to depict them as very good friends but not romantically involved. The White Council stuff was also condensed. We know that Celebrían did give Arwen the Elessar, but we don’t know when or why, and my explanation is a headcanon; we also don’t know how it ended back up with Galadriel to give to Aragorn, so I made that up as well. I also love the headcanon that Arwen always sort of knew what her Choice would be and was just waiting for the right moment to make it, so both she and Celebrían knew deep down that this would be the last time they saw each other ;-; Lindir’s entire story is a headcanon; I’ll go into him a bit more in a later edit. The “mysterious, anonymous bard” he learns from is, of course, Maglor ;) Also, he’s definitely the one who came up with “Tra-la-la-lally”! Aragorn’s story is condensed here; we don’t know that he met Bilbo when he was a child, but he would have been in Imladris when the Company passed through, so I think it’s entirely possible (and very cute)! We know that Bilbo and Aragorn were friends in later years, but Bilbo’s relationship with Erestor and Lindir is made up (all we know about Lindir from canon is that he’s not super familiar with Mannish vs. hobbitish music, but I think it’s likely he was teasing them, at least in part). I’m really unsatisfied with this faceclaim for old Bilbo and it may change if I find something better. Glorfindel’s ride and the Council of Elrond are also both condensed, but I think I got the important bits in there. I don’t think it’s specified that Elladan and Elrohir were specifically considered for the Fellowship, but since Elrond was suggesting members of his household, I think it’s likely they were floated; the same goes with the other riders that he sent out looking for Frodo earlier. I didn’t remember the detail about Elladan and Elrohir scouting out a path for the Fellowship but apparently that’s canon! This is canonically the time period when Narsil was reforged into Andúril, but that Arwen did the reforging is a headcanon. There are conflicting accounts of whether Elrond was there or not for Arwen’s wedding, but I find it unacceptable that he would miss such an event, so I bring him there. We know that Erestor, Elladan, and Elrohir were all present, but not about Glorfindel and Lindir, but I think it’s likely they were. Also, it gives a great opportunity for Glorf to meet Éowyn and Merry! We don’t know if/when Erestor sailed, so I sent him along with Elrond; we know Glorfindel eventually makes it back to Valinor, but not the timing, so I send him with Elladan and Elrohir, whose ultimate fates are not revealed in canon. I just find it improbable that they would choose mortality; I think the reason they remained behind was to watch over Arwen, and once she died they were free to leave. Obviously, Glorfindel marrying Ecthelion in Valinor is a headcanon, but I do love a tragic romance where the couple are parted for thousands of years—just so long as there’s a happy ending!

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