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and the ashes blew towards us (Ao3 link)

“I don’t know when we will come. It may yet be a very long time, or at least what I’ve come to think of as a long time, what with all the mortals I am now constantly surrounded by. In the meantime, I hope that the letters and drawings we have sent will tide you over. If I know of anyone else going west, I shall send more correspondence with them. However, it is rare that anyone goes west anymore and is unlikely I’ll hear about it when it happens.”

A letter from Elrohir to his parents, sent with Celeborn across the sundering sea.

Inspired by 《Rána》（The moon god）, a silmarillion fanfic written by Chorasmia. For thousands of years Elrond had been searching Maglor. Then Arwen. Then Eldarion who finally found Maglor at Tolfalas. People there worship Maglor as the moon god because of silvery light of the Trees in his eyes and his healing power. They call him Rána, the wanderer, instead of his long-forgotten elf name.

'There at last when the mallorn-leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil no more east of the sea.'

Here ends this tale, as it has come to us from the South; and with the passing of Evenstar no more is said in this book of the days of old."

Tolkien OC Week: Relationships (Aug 29th)

@tolkienocweek

Had to do my fav “Forced Marriage Enemies to Lovers Power Couple” of Crown Prince Eldarion of Gondor and Arnor, and my OC Lomiziran, Witch-Princess of Umbar.

He was a prince caught up in the really dumb decision to try and retake a city without his father’s permission, who got himself and his strike team captured by the Queen-Regent of Umbar, who forces him to marry her witch daughter to save the lives of his men.

She was a princess-priestess trying to help rebuild a culture that had been suppressed by their tyrant god-king, who finds herself being married off to the half-elfdemon prince who just tried to invade her city cuz her mother says it'll help secure their chances of survival as Gondor's going to take them over one way or another anyway.

Eventually, they stop thinking the other is going to kill them long enough to talk and figure out that they might actually like each other...

Anyway here's the little bits of history I have for Lomiziran and her family:

Lomiziran: Witch-Princess of Umbar, wife of Eldarion and eventually Queen of Gondor-Arnor. Mother of Ethoril. Trained in the magic arts by her grandmother, a devotee of the ancient Umbarian version of Varda, who’s worship had gone underground during Sauron’s occupation but was kept alive in secret. (Born 1424 SR. Marries 1443 SR)

Lominzil: Wife of Castamir III, mother of Lomiziran. Becomes Queen-Regent after her husband and his brother’s death in battle (Umbar traditionally a duumvirate). Engineers Lomiziran’s marriage to Eldarion after capturing his strike force. She was a descendent of Sangahyando, kinsman of Angamaite, who married a princess of the Haradrim.

Castamir III: Father of Lomiziran, a descendant of Angamaite, one of the Gondorian Lords who fled to Umbar during the Kingstrife. Aragorn killed his grand-father, the Captain of the Haven during his time as Thorongil. Castamir himself was killed in the new forays between Gondor and Umbar over Harondor in the early years of Aragorn’s reign.

Eldarion is tired oldest brother to five or six younger sisters and gives the blandest look when people say he’s ‘lucky it’s not boys.’ I mean. Have you met their parents? The girls are total terrors when they want to be.

Identical twin daughters. Need I say more?

One of their daughters has silver hair courtesy of Celebrian, and the other a beautiful gold from Gilraen. Their hair *gleams* in lamplight to something definitely not human.

Eldarion is Responsible Older Brother TM but leave him with Elboron and Elfwine and all hell breaks loose. Best friend chaos trio since they were born.

One of the girls takes a liking to Rohan and spends several years there with Éomer and Lothíriel

Elrond’s foresight allowed him to see all of Estel and Arwen’s children and he wrote several letters to each of them before he left so they know their grandfather loves them.

All of them learn healing fighting and battle strategy. Plants are easier for tiny kids to handle than wooden swords. And it’s important to emphasise that yes their job is to keep the kingdoms safe, but more importantly to help heal their people.

Éowyn is the only one who can wrangle all of them other than their parents. Faramir tries but collapses under ‘pleeeaaaase Uncle Faramir!’ *insert puppy dog eyes*

All the parents look after all the kids. Éomer, Lothíriel, Éowyn, Faramir, Aragorn, Arwen. They’ll close with all the children and collectively parent them

Legolas is a common visitor. Gimli comes as much as he can. They’re both enablers for chaos and subsequently favourites.

Elladan and Elrohir can’t visit as often as they like, now managing Rivendell’s final affairs. But the kids do visit Imladris a couple of times and whilst it’s a little emptier than in Aragorn’s youth, it still holds the warmth of the Last Homely House. Eldarion is particularly taken with it.

Glorfindel and Erestor are vindicated Elrond’s children have to deal with their own chaotic kids. They are also enablers. Glorfindel trains them while they’re there and follows them back to Gondor for some time until he’s happy with their progress. He comes again when they’re older and heading out.

Eldarion’s a history nerd. I take no argument.

Yes his sisters make fun of him for it. But Eru help anyone else who dared do the same

Elboron and Elfwine, and their siblings are the exceptions