#telcontar

Happy Birthday to the King!

"My brother, my Captain, my king..." - Boromir

I'm in love with Eldarion from my current WIP

Húrin:

Faramir and Éowyn are first to produce an heir because they are nothing if not efficient.

They have twins: Elboron and Théodwyn (I like the name less and less with each passing day—also not sold on Morwen, am considering a swap to Andreth or Saelind for ~reasons~)

The twins are born in FO 1, three years after the end of the war, two years after Faramir and Éowyn are married

They’re each very much like their parents: Elboron inherits his father’s proclivity for melodrama and his mother’s sense of duty, Théodwyn his love of learning and her never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude.

Elboron inherits Éowyn’s blonde hair, Théodwyn Faramir’s black, both are taller than Éowyn (who, I should remind everyone, is not short) by the time they’re sixteen. Éowyn makes out that she’s furious about it, but secretly loves it

Both have a slightly reduced turbo-charged Númenórean vibe, but it’s still very much there. It’s more obvious with Théodwyn because she leans into it more aggressively, Elboron, by contrast, likes that people still think he’s ~exotic~ for looking more Rohirric, so tries to play that up. He grows into embracing it later in life.

Théodwyn hauls ass out to Harad the first chance she gets—it’s a Whole Thing for the family, but Éowyn’s already quite sensitive to not making her kids feel trapped, and Faramir’s quite content to get as many people as possible in on his anti-war crusade, so he does eventually get over his panic at her going.

She meets her future husband there, though it takes them several years to seal the deal. They have a quieter sort of courtship, Théodwyn has no interest in being compared to her parents, and feels like she finds a kindred spirit in Bijan in terms of the balance of practicality vs individuality.

After they marry (in Harad, again, it’s a Whole Thing), they return to Ithilien for a time, and then move to Minas Tirith so they can each play politics

Elboron, meanwhile, goes out on one of Aragorn’s imperial wars (to Rhûn, imo), expecting he’ll love it, only to discover that, ah, yes, his parents were in fact right about war sucking ass.

He immediately begs for—and is given—a semi-diplomatic position in the Northern Kingdom.

He falls in love and has it bad for one of the daughters of the Rangers of the North. He, à la pops, plays up the drama 100%, and Ilmarë loves it, because she feels like Gondor is so trendy and established and that the Northern Kingdom doesn’t have the same pizzazz.

They marry in Ithilien but immediately return to the North for a few years; a few of their children are born in the North.

Telcontar:

I think, as is the fanon standard, there are three daughters born to Aragorn and Arwen before Eldarion comes along.

The first daughter, Míriel, is born Summer 3020. Second and third are born quickly thereafter, Arwen is basically pregnant constantly between Autumn 3019 and FO 5.

This complicates things re: her father leaving M-E. There’s drama.

Eldarion is born Spring FO 3, and then A+A’s last daughter and then second son, (named Fintherion) are born three and five years after that. RIP to Arwen’s pelvic floor.

There’s a lot of outside pressure on Míriel and Elboron to get married, even from their youngest years, but their parents are incredibly hardline on not letting that happen—Míriel takes a broad Fuck Marriage position, whereas Elboron takes the far more politically-aware approach of “even if I did (I don’t), someone would murder one of us if that marriage was attempted, it’s too much concentrated power”.

They still end up as quite close friends, and egg on each others’ penchant for melodrama, which is cute when they’re kids, but starts to get them in trouble when they’re older.

Eldarion grows up like Emma Woodhouse, spoiled but extremely charming and clever. He has the entire Emma plot line with one of Éomer and Lothíriel’s daughters, and they’re married basically without a hitch.

Unnamed Daughter #2 marries Bard II of Dale—this is mostly a political thing; Unnamed Daughter #3 very astutely marries one of the sons of a lord of Gondor (I’m thinking Lebennin); Fintherion doesn’t marry; Unnamed Daughter #4 marries a northern lord (sort of political sort of not, she just wants to get the fuck out of Gondor)

The kids generally end up in this weird social space when they’re growing up where their closet pals end up being Éomer and Lothíriel’s kids and the kids of other various lords who set up camp in Minas Tirith. The Húrinionath are sort of isolationists in Ithilien because of how much work there is to do there and because Arwen and Aragorn end up quite difficult to socialise with.

Eorl mark 2

Éomer and Lothíriel marry in TA 3021—this is a semi-arranged political marriage. Éomer doesn’t give a shit one way or the other about marriage, Lothíriel has been raised to see marriage as an important political tool, so is earnestly only interested in it in that regard.

They, like Aragorn and Arwen, go through a lot of daughters before they get to Elfwine.

Their first daughter is born FO 1, then there’s a gap until the next daughter is born in FO 3. Then there’s one daughter a year until Elfwine is born in FO 8. There are no more children after that.

It’s daughter number three that marries Eldarion.

The kids are raised in both the language of the Mark and Sindarin. Lothíriel ends up compared with some frequency to Morwen Steelsheen, though never earns an epithet of her own.

The kids actually don’t spend an enormous amount of time at Dol Amroth—given that Éomer is the king and therefore wildly outranks Imrahil (and later Elphir), it’s the Dol Amroth brood who have to visit them. They routinely split the difference and just meet in Minas Tirith, EXCEPT when Éomer goes off to war while the kids are still young, then the older kids are sent to Dol Amroth while the younger kids remain in Edoras with Lothíriel

To Lothíriel’s chagrin (and Éomer’s delight) the kids mostly marry within the Mark, bar daughter #3 who marries Eldarion.

Clan Dol Amroth

They do their very best to stay the fuck away from the northern families. The Hurinionath spend a decent amount of time in Dol Amroth when they can, but there’s no attempts to marry any of them off to one another—or of making that bargain with Aragorn and Arwen’s kids.

Imrahil does try. Éowyn occasionally helps (vis a vis Aragorn’s kids) because she’s a shameless shit-stirrer.

Alphros has two younger brothers born after the war, no sisters

Erchirion never marries, plays Did You Know I’m A War Hero for life, to great success. Spends a lot of time at sea, likes showing up in Edoras or Emyn Arnen unannounced with things to rile up the kids.

@tolkiengenweek day 4! Solo- my lovely lonely long leg boi Aragorn (using this palette it’s called I Challenge My Fate!) 

I don’t have much headcanon to discuss here but i just want to say:

I love Aragorn 

He has been my favourite character since the age of 12

If i think about how much he means to me I WILL tear up

I like that he goes around like “I am a tortured and lonely exile” but everywhere he goes people are like “hello my beloved friend” 

every lifetime too short and every second a lifetime as the midsummer sun set over Rivendell

Bonus: Peregrin Took, Knight of Gondor, Thain of the Shire, and Gaurd of the Citadel