#elendil

Thorin Edgelord Oakenshield: YOU KNOW NOTHING OF SUFFERING!!!! King Thranduil, a Doriathrin refugee, witnessed the terror of the Second Kinslaying as a CHILD, did in fact see the horrific mountain-sized dragons of the North (the North being Angband, aka Morgoth’s hellhole), fought in the War of Wrath, was there at the Drowning of Beleriand, saw the aftermaths of the Sacking of Eregion and Fall of Numénor, fought in the War of the Elves and Sauron, watched his father and like half his people die in the Siege of Barad-Dûr, became king way too early, fought in the Battle of Dagorlad, probably witnessed the grotesque and untimely deaths of Gil-galad and Elendil at the hands of Sauron, oh yeah that reminds me, saw a Ring-powered Sauron tearing through his comrades like crepe paper, dealt with the aftermath of all that shit, is king of shitty ass Mirkwood, the Ñoldor don’t HAVE a king, chaos, chaos, oh he has a wife and kid now!, lol nope, his wife is fucking dead, his kid hates his ass, no fucking wonder he’s a depressed and repressed angsty bitch, there is no therapy in Middle-earth, didn’t even get a cool ring as an elven ruler because his overly proud lowkey Thingolmaxxing father and Celebrimbor-famously-son-and-nephew-of-‘fuck you Dior we kidnapped your mum’ most likely didn’t get along too well: Gee, I can’t imagine. Suffering? Who’s she?

Adar had to die because if he, Gil-Galad and Elendil were all in Middle Earth at the same time there would have simply been too much Dad Energy ™️ for the populace to handle. They would have defeated Sauron through sheer “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed” force alone.