#elfwine

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

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Dawn

He held up the small item in the crisp, early rays of the sunrise, inspecting it from all angles. Then with the pads of his fingers, he checked for any sharpness and uneven surfaces.

The wood was smoothly polished and free from any splinters or rough edges.

Softly, he hummed his approval.

Then he stood up from his place on the patio, greeted the guards, and soon he had found his way into a chamber deep inside of Meduseld.

The thick velvet curtains had kept the room dark, though a few errant slivers of light slipped past their weight, given way by the gentle breeze that was allowed in by the slightly opened window pane.

The room smelled of home – a musky, soothing scent with a hint of flowers.

Quietly, he padded to the grand four-poster bed. In the middle was a tall shape hidden by the blanket, with a few curls peeping out. Next to it was a child, her blonde mop of hair hastily tied up in a ponytail, her limbs spread out to occupy one half of the bed.

Heruwine owes a great deal to Elfwine -- his (Heruwine's) father died early by suicide on account of depression and debt, and if not for Heruwine's service in Elfhelm's éored and his many rewards for courage, he would be titled but nearly landless.

Secondly, Elfwine eventually becomes protective and yes, somewhat possessive, of his brilliant court poet, so after a while he does NOT want anything to happen to Heruwine. While he knows that Heruwine loves to ride to battle and does not deny him that pleasure, he makes damn sure that Heruwine takes the time to recover from any injury he sustains, particularly ones to the head.

Elfwine is in fact instrumental in making sure that Heruwine stays the fuck put in the Houses of Healing of Minas Tirith, and follows the Gondorean for a post-concussion protocol to the latter. (That means no wine, no mead, no spirits of any kind, and poor Tawarien is tasked with enforcing these rules.)

Do we know what year Elfwine is born? Did Tolkien say anything about it?

Hi there! I am just at the end of a looong work day, so things are looking up now that I’m headed home! 🙂

We don’t know when Elfwine was born. Éomer got married in T.A. 3021, so it was ostensibly after that (since I doubt Tolkien would have made Elfwine the product of unwed parents!). And Elfwine ascended to the throne in Fo.A. 63, when presumably he was a grown ass man, so obviously it was earlier than that. But that’s a pretty big range, and we just don’t know.

if "To Be Loved" was a cartoon Saloon movie heh 🥰

(Elfwine meaning Elf-friend)