by starlightwalking (@arofili)

Findis and Lalwen across three pregnancies, two continents, and one sisterhood.

Teen, No Archive Warnings

[Image description: Colored pencil drawing of Littleheart and Voronwe from the Silmarillion. Littleheart (aka Ilfrin) is an elf man with light brown skin, brown eyes, and reddish brown hair pulled up into a bun; he is wearing an earring in the shape of a wave. Voronwe is an elf man with pale skin, red-orange hair, lavender eyes, freckles, and unique facial features; he is wearing dangly purple earrings and a purple shirt. End image description.]

March 21, 2020

i have some weirdly specific, completely unfounded headcanons for these two! voronwe to me has always seemed very aroace, and i was like ‘then how does he have a son’ and i’m not the kind of fan to completely write a character out of the story if i can instead find a really convoluted way to include them, lol.

SO in my version of the story, voronwe settles down in a little house by the beach after the fall of gondolin (well, that’s what tolkien said in tfog, anyway). voronwe is canonically related to cirdan through his mother, so in my hc his mom is cirdan’s sister.

i’m a fan of the gil-galad lalwenion theory, but i also really like gil-galad aegnorion, but in a world where i go with the latter i still ship lalwen and cirdan so i thought ‘give them a kid anyway!’

thus ilfrin was born! (in this verse at least) he’s born at the beginning of the war of wrath and kind of has to be a secret because lalwen and cirdan aren’t Officially Married, and when lalwen gets involved in the fighting and cirdan gets involved in the organizing, they send their son away to live with his cousin, voronwe.

voronwe basically raises ilfrin from that point on. voronwe’s mother dies in the third kinslaying; lalwen dies in the war of wrath - they are both missing their mothers and cling to each other. people mistake ilfrin for voronwe’s son, and since their adoptive relationship is kind of like that they don’t bother to correct anyone. at the end of the war of wrath, voronwe and ilfrin sail to tol eressea and wait for their mothers to be reborn :)

if you like this hc, i wrote a bit about it in my fic ATATYA (specifically in chapter 3!)

also: why does voronwe have red hair? idk i just saw the model (ilka bruhl) and was like ‘hm. voronwe.’ and went with it. his mom also has red hair - i’m drawing her next :)

by starlightwalking (@arofili)

Part 33 of Ataquenta Silmarillion

Voronwë receives some visitors, some dreadful news, and a new responsibility.

Teen, Major Character Death