#30daysofadar

🖤 Day 9: How does Adar smell? 🖤

I have two answers…

✨ Realistically... As he's lived in the same outfit for thousands of years and has a somewhat suspect diet, probably not very nice 🤣🙈

🌹 Romantically... He washes in sage blossoms and smells intoxicating and sexy 🪻🫠

I'm not much of a creator [for good or for worse], I'm mostly here to enjoy the beautiful creations and company of this warm fandom🤗

One thing I guess I can share is just the series of my very self-indulgent posts about Adar and him being Lana Del Rey coded in all his tragic dark beauty, melancholy and heroism🥺🖤✨️

Again, there are SOOOO many amazing fanfics featuring Adar. Here are just SOME of my favorites:

in my scar covered heart, color will always exist @plotdesigner

Of Convenience @greenleaf4stuff

A Bite to Remember @eowyn7023

🖤 Day 12: Favourite Fanart of Adar 🖤

🎨 My absolute favourite fanart is done by the very talented @nekroticism, who I’m so privileged to be able to call a friend.

👀 She always captures Adar so perfectly, and I love every single picture she’s ever drawn of him (as well as all her other art!!).

💝 She’s also one of the most generous people in the fandom, constantly creating goodies for us all to enjoy!

✨ I’ve worked with her on several collabs now—both personally and professionally—and I love bouncing creative ideas with her. She’s always full of incredible concepts and stories.

📚 Thank you, Raquel, for making me smile every day with such beautiful artwork!

🖤 Day 19: Adar’s Spirit Animal 🖤

The Black Wolf 🐺🌑

@Nekroticism and I have been working on a collab again for this one!

The Black Wolf suits Adar perfectly because, like him, it embodies a balance of fierce strength and deep loyalty. Wolves are pack animals, but the black wolf in particular is often seen as an outcast—different from the rest, walking between the shadows and the light. This reflects Adar’s own life: once part of his elven kin, now forever marked as other, yet still leading his own “pack” of Uruks with unwavering devotion.

Like the wolf, Adar is a protector. He will fight ferociously to safeguard his children, yet he also has a gentleness reserved for those he loves. The wolf is not needlessly aggressive—it acts with purpose, just as Adar does.

There’s also the symbolism of the wolf’s endurance and survival in harsh conditions. The black wolf thrives in darkness, and so does Adar: scarred, hunted, and twisted by time, yet still enduring, still leading.

The Black Wolf is a creature of legend, feared and admired in equal measure—much like Adar himself. 🖤🐺

And because it’s #fanficfriday, here’s our spin on Adar and his spirit animal

The Black Wolf 🐺🌑

In shadowed glades where moonlight dies, A black wolf moves with spectral guise. His gaze—two flames of frozen blue— Mask the torment he’s carried through Unseen, he stalks where silence grows, Through endless night the cold wind knows. Adar walks with him, soul to soul, Bound by secrets they never show. A father, a beast, both cursed, both wild, Guardian fierce of the lost, the defiled. In the hush of darkness, their spirits entwine, Two shadows eternal, no end, no time.

With @adarswidow

🖤 Day 11: Head canon about Adar's origin 🖤

✨A lot of this is canon (or at least fanon!), but this is my take on it.

💔 I believe that Adar was one of the original elves to awake at Cuiviénen (like so many of you). It’s my opinion that he was lured to Morgoth through a false hope of having children. I headcanon his reason for this being because he'd suffered the loss of a child, or the loss of a partner, and thought he might never have children without them. Although it seemed like Morgoth’s doing, I believe Sauron was always in on it – maybe even the mastermind from the start. When he discovered Adar's wish, it gave him the idea of breeding orcs from elves. We know from the Silmarillion that Sauron tricked Gorlim into believing Eilinel was alive. I believe he did a similar thing with Adar to lure him in, perhaps pretending his lost lover had returned and he could have the children he wanted with her😭 And this was how he sneakily enlisted Adar for his breeding programme.

⛓️ Once Adar was captured, he was chained up and abandoned, and it seemed like Morgoth hadn’t followed through on his promise, but Sauron was using the time to work out devious ways to breed orcs now that he had the ‘parents’ captured.

🍷 Then Sauron "found" Adar – bringing him wine, pretending to be a friend, and slowly worming his way in. He preyed on Adar's deepest wishes and desires, learning both his strengths and the ways he could be manipulated while seeming supportive.

💔 Adar was weakened and corrupted by the torture and neglect he believed came from Morgoth. This is why Sauron appeared as a saviour – a servant of Morgoth who was actually "beautiful." Not just facially beautiful, but angelic, appearing when Adar thought all hope was lost.

👶🏻I believe Adar was forced to ‘breed’ with the other moriondor, while Sauron used some kind of blood magic or dark magic to corrupt the offspring, though his intent was to breed an army of killers… Which he did, but not in the style that he wished. I’m sure Sauron would have preferred a more ‘perfect’ army, and in his determination to perfect this army, he bred more and more warped creatures. I also HC that Adar was ‘under a spell’ (like Gorlim in the Silmarillion and Celebrimbor in TROP), where he didn’t see the full horror of what he had been part of until much damage had been done.

🖤 Day 20: Adar in a modern setting head canon🖤

Ooh, I love this because I have many! ✨

I’ve already written a few of these, but one of my favourites is: 🎸 Adar as a black metal rockstar! 🤘 This is the premise for my ongoing fanfic Bonds of Chaos and Order (written with @nekroticism - thank you again for the amazing art).

I also love the idea of Adar being a university professor who has no idea that the students all find him super sexy— I explored this in my Adar/ Mirdania fanfics: Quenya and Kittens and Drenched. 👓📚

Another HC I have for modern Adar is that he’s a kind of vigilante who secretly runs a shelter for homeless people… I haven’t developed or written this idea however… YET! 🖤

And I’m sure more will develop over time!!

With @adarswidow

🖤 Day 30: How do you go on without Adar?🖤

Like so many others have said, I want to keep Adar alive in my heart. I don’t remember a character that has had such a profound influence on me. Certainly, pre-Adar, I wasn’t part of any fandoms, and his existence has got me creating in ways that I never thought I would.

So, I plan to keep him alive in: ✍️ Writing (I love writing Adar fics) 📝 Video/ Meme/ Gif Edits (just for fun) 🎨 Art (maybe doing some of my own, but mostly by asking the incredible @nekroticism—the Adar-Art guru 😉🥰!)

I’m also happy that through Adar, I’ve made some really lovely friends in the fandom—I haven’t met any in person, but I love the online chats, laughs, occasional tears (!), banter, gossip, and sharing of ideas! It’s all food for the soul.

On that note, I want to send an absolutely massive thank you to @adarswidow for creating this event and giving us all the perfect excuse to post about Adar every day!! 🙏💖🎉🔥

👏 Sending you a huge virtual round of applause! This has been an incredible 30 days of Adar! 🖤✨