#ring babies

I had a whole post outlining the combined Silm Triplets and Ring Babies AU complete with links to fics that folks had written for both and Dumblr ate it ahhhhhhhhhh :((((((

Guess i gotta do it all over again....😭😭😭😭

(I have been thinking about them a lot recently as Malya is a baby when the others are a lot older quite a lot like us and situations keep occurring where I'm like, yeah that'd happen)

Ahhhhh congratulations!!! Baby brothers are the best ❤️ I’ve got 3 xD That’s so awesome!

That’s absolutely how the ring babies feel about Malya. They can’t believe they were ever that small and new, and every new accomplishment from her is both a wonder and a little bittersweet because it means she won’t stay so small and new forever, and one day she’ll be all grown up as well. But they’re still so excited to see who she grows up to be.

Hello! Sorry for the wait!

So I see Mairon as being closest to Narya, as he was ultimately meant to be his bearer in ring form; Narya is a lot like what Mairon was like as a young Maia before his seduction by Melkor. Excited to learn, eager to test out and find ways to improve everything, prone to some anxiety over perfectionism that Mairon and Tyelpe help him work through. But ultimately he loves and cares about all the Babies.

Things between Nenya and Mairon can be a little tense sometimes when they disagree, but they still love and respect eachother even if they see things differently. They do bond over games of strategy and political gossip..

Vilya is the most calm and chill out of all the ring babies and gets along very well with his father even if they don't share a lot of interests, though Mairon will often help him out if Vilya has questions about state craft.

Hello! Thank you for your patience, sorry for some reason my brain just couldn't get into gear for a while to answer Asks but here we are at last.

The basic idea ive always had is that Tyelpe made the Ring Babies by accident, via a sort of Powerpuff girls scenario xD He's just there doing awesome magic science and then poof--he's a father.

Beyond that what I've been able to figure out is that it was ultimately possible due to his being linked to Annatar/Mairon. Having joined his fea with that of a maia he was able to accidentally pull on latent power and unintentionally pull the Ring Babies into forming physically.

My thought has been that while he was forming them he was thinking of their potential bearers, who he meant to gift them too once he was done, and these thoughts mixing with the Magic helped shape something of the base of the Ring Babies personalities and appearances. Hence Nenya looks and acts something like Galadriel, Vilya looks and acts something like Gil Galad, and Narya looks and acts something like Annatar (my own personal headcanon for who Narya was intented for). But these are only baselines, the Babies grow and change as they learn and their own distinct personalities come thru as they do, they're not just younger copies of their bearers.

I think what made them manifest ad children was both Tyelpe's thoughts about wanting a family of his own, and his desire to have his rings help heal and bring back something of the joy and hopefulness of youth unspoiled by war and tragedy to the people he meant to give the rings too. He wanted them (the rings) to be able to give a new life and energy and optimism to the wearers, as part of his vision of helping to heal Arda and its people from the ravages of the Wars.

And all that mixed together with unrealized Maiar creation magics and--instant fatherhood. (Well, sort of instant. The babies took about a year to fully physically form around their ring cores, giving a confused/frantic/excited Tyelpe time to get a nursery and everything ready for them as he watched them solidify xD )

As for when Annatar confesses to him, well it depends on what sort of storyline I want to play with. In the All is Well and Happy timeline (which would probably be the main one I deal with) Mairon properly reformed and confessed long before they started making the rings, so he has no diabolical plans in mind, they can just be surprised and happy fathers together.

In a more complicated timeline he hasn't yet confessed at this point though he is pretty much getting pulling by his feelings to reform, and the babies accidental creation both heightens and complicats this, as he wants to confess all and properly change to be with Tyelpe and their children but he's worried he's left it off too long by now.

Bad timeline (though still with a possibility for a happy ending if Mairon can get thru his on hubris to get his act together ) is he hasn't confessed at all and doesn't find out the the Rings he sensed in Mordor as he put on The One are children until he's marched on Eregion and finds Celebrimbor trying to flee with three small children. (If he manages to get himself thru a Redemption arc in this Tyelpe finds a way to reverse engineer the Ring Baby process, uses it on The One Ring so Mairon isn't destroyed and it becomes their youngest baby Malya)

Worst/most canon adjacent/(star wars-y) timeline, Tyelpe sends the Babies off to their different bearers for safety, is captured and ultimately dies without revealing their location or that they've become people. They grow up in the care of their bearers, play their parts in the downfall of Sauron (either as people or shifting into rings and back) and ultimately reunite with Celebrimbor in Valinor.

Ah well I mean, what would you like to know? Stuff about the babies hobbies? Stuff about Mairon and Tyelpe's relationship in it? How the babies were crafted? What they do when they get older? Favorite foods?