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Fëanorian Red

Jumping the Inbox queue for you because this is a fairly easy one to answer.*

You're right! The idea of Fëanor and his followers wearing red is fanon. I would speculate it comes from two sources:

1. The passage you identified

And Fëanor made a secret forge, of which not even Melkor was aware; and there he tempered fell swords for himself and for his sons, and made tall helms with plumes of red. The Silmarillion, "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor"

2. The fact that we do know Fingolfin's colours were blue and silver

But as the host of Fingolfin marched into Mithrim the Sun rose flaming in the West; and Fingolfin unfurled his blue and silver banners... The Silmarillion, "Of the Return of the Noldor"

The "blue and silver" banners are again referred to when Fingon is killed in the Nirnaeth, and in Fingolfin's duel with Morgoth his shield is described as blue.

Jett: "Thanks for a great competition! Try to keep out of trouble, huh? And if you ever need backup in a fight, don't hesitate to call on me!"

(...I have realized it's very hard to describe memes using words. If you like I can try to send the image)

Lol, that's okay, I knew what you meant!

Me: Oh cool a new follower. Hey that URL sounds familiar.

*checks the description*

lol hi boundin 😂 we had the same reaction to each other’s blogs

Thank you!!! Jeremiah deserved the win just as much, he looks like such a cool character and I'd love to learn more about him! I feel like he and Jett would actually have a really interesting dynamic if they actually met, Jett would totally appreciate the work he's doing (but might have some qualms about the method).

4. An actor who's performance elevated an otherwise lower quality movie?

Lady in the Water isn't a terrible movie, but it does have issues, and isn't one of my favorites from M. Night Shyamalan. But Paul Giamatti plays the main character, a traumatized man with a stutter who seems very dumpy and average and pathetic, but ends up actually being the one who saves the day in his own way. The climactic scene where he finally tells the whole story of the tragedy that led to where he is now has always stood out to me as proof of what a good actor he is. He really makes you believe that this is a real guy who's really been through these things.

10. One of your favourite animal acting performances?

I kind of want to say Jed, the wolf-dog who famously performed in White Fang and The Thing. But as I've only seen those movies a couple times, I think instead I'm going to say Air Bud. The first Air Bud movie was so important to me as a kid, and I can't even really explain why, but it was. And Buddy is such a sweet dog, and does such a good job of emoting in that movie without any sort of CG or voiceovers or anything else to assist him. Nope, that's just a very smart and talented dog who, together with his trainers, captured my heart as a lonely seven-year-old who really really wanted a dog of her own.

21. A movie you never want a sequel to?

This might seem counter-intuitive, but I'm going to say my favorite movie of all time, The Fall. It's almost perfect already, and I don't know how or why anyone would want to make a sequel anyway, but...yeah. Don't ruin near-perfection, please.