#tolkien!verse

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There was a house..not too far from where she stood in the depths of the forest. It was bordered by a tall hedge with a gated entrance that kept foul creatures and other unwanted travelers away. Aya quickly but hesitantly made her way towards the lodgings but a sudden air filled the atmosphere as she approached the front entrance. It was a familiar sense but it was quiet and cozy feeling. 

Name: Kimberlina “Kimmy” Proudfoot

Age: Late 30s

Location: Esgaroth

Race: Hobbit

Background

Kimmy Proudfoot went missing from the Shire when she was somewhere around the age of twenty-seven years old. Although Kimmy loved her family and her homeland very much, the young halfling had a thirst for adventure and exploration unlike most of her kind. On a short trip to Bree, Kimmy came across a vagabond on the road the accompanied her on foot toward her destination. He claimed that he was an adventurer of great proportions and could take her anywhere she desired. Young and foolish as Kimmy was, she asked if he could guide her to Rivendell so that she could meet the Elves, a personal dream of hers she’d harbored since early childhood. Hasty in her decision, she took the offer to go with him and they met the next morning to depart from the Shire.

Unfortunately for Kimmy, her new-found companion was not to be trusted. He was in fact a vandal that swindled not only her, but three other young lady halflings into lives of servitude. Kimmy was forced under his care to work for him as a cook and housemaid within the walls of his home under the threat that she would be left to the wilds with no way home. For a decade, she was essentially treated as a slave until the villainous man’s home was ransacked by other villagers and she was set free.

Due to the fact that I’m following more and more Tolkien RP blogs (whether or not we interact, hah), I decided to do some research on the possibility of Auron in the Tolkienverse both as a traveler from FFX as well as the elvish-AU I’ve been slowly fleshing out, and came across some fun information regarding names. Auron can be translated as Áron (ára+-on(dawn), árë+-on(day/sunlight)) or Aron (ar-+-on(Noble one)), all using the basic masculine -on suffix and being of Quenya origin as opposed to Sindarin, the only difference in pronunciation being the length of the initial ‘A’. This actually meshes very well with name meanings possible for Auron in Earthly languages, most notably from the Latin aurum and its derivative aureus, which literally means “gold/golden/gilded” and as such could convey the notion of dawn/sunlight, but aureus also carries the figurative meaning of “noble”.

Essentially, his name is a legit Tolkien-elvish name. [//nerds out into the Farplane]

For those of you looking to RP with Tolkien!Verse Auron, here are a few things to keep in mind or ponder:

Noldorin elf - Loyalist, did not participate in the Kinslaying at Alqualondë

Heavily Silmarillion-based, would be in Valinor and not in Middle-Earth at the time of The Hobbit/War of the Ring - however, if you wish to plot, I don’t mind being flexible on places and times, especially as most people would probably want to RP that Age

Locked-in OT3 pairing of Auron/Braska/Cammaen (Braska’s wife) - will be background only unless a Braska comes along that wishes to RP it (or Braska’s wife, but I’m not sure any RPers of her actually exist?)

Pro-Valar - if you’re going to gush about the virtues of Fëanor, know that Cammaen was one of those killed in the Kinslaying, and Auron will not tolerate Fëanor-fan-flail.