#Earendil

[thesummerestsolstice]

I love it when Elrond is portrayed as someone who is a little bit incomprehensible to most of the elves at first. Not even just because he's a half-elf, but because he reminds them all of so many other people, and that layering can be kind of jarring.

He sings beautifully, with a voice that sounds like no elf or man, and it reminds many of the Sindar of Luthien. It reminds some of the Noldor of someone else, another singer with raven-dark hair and starry gray eyes.

The braids he does his hair in– and he always keeps it braided at first, because letting it run loose is another thing that makes people whisper of Luthien– are in the traditional Noldor style. The survivors of Gondolin love that; Turgon always wore his hair in classical styles too. The other part of the House of Finwe that clung to traditional braids goes unmentioned. But everyone knows.

And he was clearly taught about court manners; taught to be gracious and charming, and a very good listener. The elf who could have taught Elrond those things is usually skipped over entirely, in favor of those reminiscing about Idril's graceful poise or Melian's endless patience.

He looks very much like Luthien, but there is a particular Finwean sharpness in his facial structure; something that makes him look a lot like Fingolfin, as well. Fingolfin looked very much like his father. And his older brother.

His smile is just like Earendil's (whose smile is just like Tuor's), and his strange, birdlike laugh is from Elwing. He fights and writes with his left hand– but then, so did Earendil, because while all elves are right-handed, not all humans or half-elves are. He eats no meat– just like Beren, they say, but the way Elrond tells it the choice had nothing to do with that history. There is ainuric power in him and something very human in the set of his shoulders. The flowers grow around any place he stays long enough. He gets sick in a way no elf, and certainly no maia, ever would. His accent is odd, and archaic, and changes noticeably when he's too tired to obscure it. His mannerisms are a mixture of about twelve people, almost all of whom are dead, and several of whom are not spoken of by the time he shows up in Gil-Galad's camp.

And the reflections of Elrond unsettle a lot of people; because one moment they see a fallen hero or loved one, and the next they see the person that took them. Or perhaps someone else, that they never knew at all. There is reverence and fear and uncertainty. It's messy.

Elrond himself is coming to peace with this by the War of Wrath. There is love in carrying the parts of your ancestors with you, even when they aren't around any more. And he knows better than anyone that he is always himself, first and foremost. Still, it takes everyone else a while to stop seeing a ghost and start seeing Elrond.

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #elrond #elrond peredhel #eldritch peredhel #maglor #maedhros #kidnap fam #earendil #elwing #luthien #it's Elrond hours in my brain again #*holds gently* #he deserves everything #he's never met any of his grandparents or other ancestors but he still has something from all of them

[echo-bleu]

Eärendil the Mariner

Who deserves a pirate outfit more than Eärendil?

The background is largely inspired by one of Philip Sue's paintings. It was fun to draw a flat earth!

In other news, I love drawing ships but that was the worst angle possible to figure out. In my head, the Silmaril is at the prow in some kind of glass/mirror lantern that amplifies its light.

I wanted him to look soft, and little wry maybe, rather than fierce. I'm sure he's fierce aplenty but I mostly headcanon him as tired. His fate breaks my heart. Also, it doesn't really show here but my Eärendil is blind from overexposure to the Silmaril (and half-human fragile eyes).

I always waver between giving him locs or a shorter Mannish haircut, but his hair is really too kinky for the shoulder-length, Aragorn-style cut, so locs it is!

IDs in alt text.

#silmarillion #tolkien #fanart #earendil #the silmarillion #silm #lotr #echo's drawings #disabled tolkien characters #not sure if he should be part of the tag since he doesn't have a visible disability here #but on the other hand he's still disabled to me #vingilot #vingilote #ardamire #earendil the mariner #silm art #tolkien fanart

[chechula]

I was commissioned by @lonelysocksclub to draw the most lovely thing: Ëarendil waking up by Elwing : "…in the morning with marvelling eyes he beheld his wife in her own form beside him with her hair upon his face, and she slept." It was really nice but hard task…I am more over dramatic action and silly scenes ×_× Shall i draw more romance?

#tolkien #earendil #elwing

[mamwieleimion]

So I had a thought.

Like we all know Elrond is a great healer, the best in middle earth but what if...

What if when someone said that Elrond is a healer, they meant he is a healer like Fëanor is a smith, like Maglor is a singer, like Earendil is a mainer, like Maedhros is a warlord, like Fingon is valiant, like Fingolfin is a warrior, like Celegrom is a hunter.

So let's then throw Elrond into Valinor and let everyone there discover that fact. Let everyone discover another genius among geniuses that the House of Finwë has spawned on them all.

#silmarillion #tolkien #maglor #elrond #maedhros #feanor #earendil #fingon #fingolfin #elrond peredhel #celegrom #valinor #sailing to Valinor #how is that not a tag? #Elrond is the healer #Elrond is everyones favourite #I will make that a tag even if it kills me #Zuzexs

[whiteladyofithilien]

"our most beloved star" is such a fun way to say "that rock my relatives killed a lot of people over that's in the sky now"

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #light of the silmarils #silm fandom #silmarils #the silmarillion #Silmarillion #light of Earendil #earendil #elwing #galadriel #Lothlorien #noldor #the noldor #noldorian #noldorian nonsense

[hamletphase]

the two stars

#silmart #elwing #earendil #the silmarillion #tolkien #my art #artistic nudity #sowwy i censored this a little more than the original painting this is based on because i don't want it to get flagged lol #but the yitties stay out. not putting those away she deserves to show them

[glorf1ndel]

Pick a guy that just really loves his wife!

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien #tolkien polls #aragorn #beren #beren erchamion #beren and luthien #Celeborn #earendil #Elrond #faramir #manwe #samwise gamgee #turgon

[mgcoco]

Tolkien Heraldic Devices + Mooncakes 🥮

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

(I did Idril's, Earendil's and Luthein's!)

#tolkien #lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #idril celebrindal #luthien tinuviel #luthien #earendil #mid autumn festival #mooncake #中秋節

[ylieke]

Eärendil. Overexposed and washed out by the light of the silmaril.

#my art #silmarillion #silm art #earendil #earendil the mariner #the silm fandom #the silmarillion #silm elves #tolkein

[southaway]

Reunion

Nolofinwë Week Day Seven: Elrond Sailing to Valinor

Hey, I have feelings.

I have this head cannon that as Círdan's ship carried Elrond to Valinor on the sea Vingilot sailed above in the sky. I think Eärendil guided his son home, I think he heralded his arrival to the Undying Lands. I think when Elwing saw her husband's star so low, and close, and bright she knew that finally after over 6,000 years she was going to see one of her sons again, I think Celebrian knew she was going to see her husband again.

I think Elrond and Elros and their legacies were the happy ending to The Silmarillion with all its grief.

Okay I'm done. Back to being completely normal.

(Also, I absolutely borrowed from @thelien-art's very good Elrond design)

#elrond #earendil #vingilot #tolkien #middle earth #nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #silmarillion #lord of the rings #digital art

[kitcat22]

Another funnier option would be that neither of them found out until after Elros’ marriage when some confusion arose between Elros and his Wife. Elros then frantically writes to Elrond to ask him what sex is and how it works. Elrond, who has no idea what Elros is talking about, brings this up to Gil Galad, Galadriel and Celebrimbor after a council meeting at which point all three remember, with no small amount of panic, what they forgot to discuss with the twins. This results in one of Gondor’s archives/museums having a stack of letters adressed to Elros Tar Minyatur sent by several famous historical elves. Unfortunately due to the age of the letters and the fact they were written in ancient elvish no one can read them but its is assumed they were important diplomatic messages. If they could read them, the scholars of Gondor might be a little suprised and confused why the adult King of Numenor had received multiple, quite lengthy letters detailing how sex works.

#silmarillion #the silm #the silmarillion #silm poll #silmarillion poll #elrond #elrond peredhel #elros #elros tar minyatur #maglor #maedhros #gil galad #ereinion gil galad #galadriel #celeborn #finarfin #eonwe #celebrimbor #earendil #elwing

[thesummerestsolstice]

Silmarillion concept that has me gnawing on the bars of my enclosure today: all of Elrond's parents are terrifying eldritch beings actually.

Maedhros, with white fire pouring from his eyes, taken from the jaws of death anything but unchanged. Some whisper that he's not elvish anymore, not since his captivity. They can never quite agree on what that makes him, exactly.

Maglor, with a voice no elf ever should've had, beautiful and terrible and powerful enough to shake the mountains. Sailors along Middle-Earth's west coast whisper of a sea wraith, some horrible siren that roams the beaches on the darkest nights.

Earendil, a man made an elf, a star, a maia if some are to be believed. Slayer of dragons, guardian of the void. Someone who's spent so along around the Silmaril and the Ainur that some of that power lives within him now.

Elwing, a skin-changer with a voice and a laugh that sound like they were taken from a bird's throat. A witch who lives in a lighthouse, where the animals flock and the plants grow strangely. None of the Amanyar would admit to being scared of her, but few will venture in sight of her odd little realm.

And then there's Elrond, ring-bearer, Lord of Rivendell, kind as a summer.

Well, let's just say it probably helps that no one is expecting him to be normal. Or elvish. Or entirely comprehensible.

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #elrond #elrond peredhel #maedhros #maglor #earendil #elwing #eldritch peredhel #eldritch elves #kidnap dads #kidnap fam #Elrond and his weird parents #they love him very much they're just also terrifying

[valacirya]

In all the long years of his life, Elrond had never once resented his mother. He had grieved for her. He had raged at everyone who took her away from him. But he had never resented her. How could he, when his first memory was of her, illuminated by moonlight, singing an ancient Doriathrin lullaby? When his last memory of her was of her tearful but fierce eyes, looking at him like he was the hope of the world. Even in his darkest moments, Elrond never doubted his mother’s love for him.

Earendil was a different story. Earendil had left. To save the world, yes, but that hadn’t mattered to a six year old boy who had just wanted his father. Elrond could never truly forget the despair of those days. It had been simpler when Earendil was the Star of High Hope. Easier to name his daughter and foster son after him, to wear his sigil with pride.

Now though, in a house on the shores of Tol Eressea, Earendil isn't a legend. He’s just a man, with Elros's eyes and Elros's hands and Elros's smile. A man who left his sons… to save the world for them. "I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."

The sun is setting below the glistening sea. Celebrian and his mother are engaged in a game of chess. Gil-galad and the twins are plotting some new mischief. There is a letter from Maglor on the table, waiting to be read.

Earendil is watching him with so much love and pride that he feels his heart break a little more. Enough is enough, he thinks. It is time to heal.

Elrond goes to him and says, “Teach me how to sail.”

The smile his father gives in return is brighter than the stars.

#ficlet #elrond #earendil #elwing #peredhel fam <3

[velvet4510]

Happy Valentine’s Day to Eärendil & Elwing, who are THE reason Middle-Earth lived past its First Age 💖💖💖

(Artwork by Alberto Dal Lago)

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #the silmarillion #earendil #elwing #earendil x elwing #tolkien couples

[echo-bleu]

"For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved."

Elwing, taking the shape of a red-billed tropicbird.

I've had this image in my head for a long while, but I let it stew until I felt like I had a good enough handle on how to light it, and I'm very happy with the result.

ID in alt. Please reblog if you like it!

#elwing #silmarillion #silm #silm art #tolkien #tolkien fanart #earendil #silmaril #echo's drawings #beautiful art #echo's october 2023

[redreyenotarget]

"Eärendil was a mariner

that tarried in Arvernien

he built a boat of timber felled

in Nimbrethil to journey in…”

There is my illustration of Earendil, with the silmaril on his brow

#fanart #digital art #art #illustration #procreate #silmarillion #tolkien #tolkien elves #earendil #earendil the mariner