Apparently there’s a bit in Morgoth’s Ring that says “Aulë named Fëanor the greatest of the Eldar” and excuse me a moment
You’re telling me that the whole “Greatest of the Eldar” thing….was SPECIFICALLY Aulë?!
Because if so, this vala is just….so normal about this elf. Never mind “lover of Fëanor” and the general “leave him alone guys, oh my god” at the darkening. Now we also have this.
Other Valar: You can’t just name one elf “greatest of the Eldar” because he happens to be good at your favourite skill! What about hunting, weaving, singing, poetry? Do none of our skills count??
Aulë: Well yes, good point. But have you considered….that he is MY special boy, therefore he is the greatest?
Other Valar: …..
Aulë: I thought not.
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you know those trucks with the LED headlights that scour your retinas at night like some kind of mobile interrogation room well I think the effect of Morgoth's Silmaril crown should be something like that. the real reason everyone keeps a respectful distance in Angband and always bows before him isn't just about worshipful fear it's also a necessary safety precaution
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losing my mind over the fact that
The Silmarils being precious beyond compare and actually making people unwilling to give them up is canon! Or, well, technically the canon that the Silmarils can enthrall people. Same thing.
I'm so tickled that this headcanon is actually canon, and you don't need to take my word for it, here's the pertinent quote:
"And Melkor, seeing that Fëanor wavered, and knowing that the Silmarils held his heart in thrall, said at last ..."
who cares what Melkor said, the Silmarils make people their thralls!!
The question is, have they had this ability since their creation, or only since the Valar hallowed them?
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I have a lack of sympathy for Thingol, Dior, and Elwing and here’s why:
Ngl, i’d feel more sympathy for dior, elwing, thingol, etc if they didn’t all collectively decide a shiny rock, that they had absolutely no claim over and kept from their rightfull owners, over their own people.
Sons of feanor: hey, can we have our father’s greatest creation, that morgoth killed out grandfather for, back?
Thingol, Dior, Elwing: yeah, about that... see, it’s very shiny and i like it very much so imma just... keep it.
Sons of feanor: but it literally does not belong to you??? Stealing it doesn’t make it yours? And it’s literally one of the only things we have left of our trees of light? And once more our father created it? And it was stolen from him? You should really just give it back?
Thingol, Dior, Elwing: but it’s mine now. I have it.
Sons of feanor: you are aware that we have sworn an oath, a soul binding oath, that forces us to kill and get rid of any one and anything in our way to get them back, right? Like, we don’t want to, but we will due to this oath.
Thingol, Dior, Elwing: so?
Sons of feanor: we will literally resort to kinslaying to get these jewels back due to the oath, never mind that it literally does not belong to you and is our father’s creation, holds the light of our trees, and caused the death of our grandfather. Listen, we are trying to resolve this peacefully, bc we also do not want to resort to kinslaying, so give us OUR thing back. You are not beholden to an oath. Not that that should matter. Literally GIVE US OUR SHIT BACK.
Thingol, Dior, Elwing: nah
Sons of feanor: oh my fucking god *kinslays* we fucking warned you you dumbass! *kinslays again* all you had to do was give us our thing back, it literally does not belong to you. *kinslays* we fucking told you about the oath, but did you listen? No! Do you even care about your own people? Like, what is this shit?
Thingol, Dior, Elwing: *dies* *cries about how it’s unfair*
(Look, do i acknowledge and understand that what the feanorians did with the kinslaying is wrong? Yeah. Do i also acknowledge and understand that Thingol, Dior, and Elwing could have avoided all of this if they had just given the jewels that they had not right to back? Absolutely. Even ignoring how they had no right to the silmarils in the first place, as leaders of their people, they did not do right by their people by putting a shiny rock over their people (especially considering they were not under oath) especially considering they were given the option to resolve it peacefully and were given warning)
(To be completely honest, Thingol, Dior, and Elwing continuously acting as if they had a right to the silmarils is very much like how the museums dig up ancient tombs, pilfers the treasures, take it all to their land and display it, all without a second thought to the people and descendants of the rightful owners, and disregard the cultural value for the original people, and thenget bitchy when the people of the country and culture want their history ancestors possessions back)
The only one i’ll give lenience to is elwing bc she was young, had not parental guidance, and withholding the jewel was probably also partly driven by spite, but Thingol and Dior have no leg to stand on what so ever.
Lastly, i’d like to state that this is what I think, this is my opinion and you are absolutely free and welcome to have your own. If you have a different opinion, feel free to post it on your own time and in your own post.
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Tiny LOTR detail that is cute: when the battle of Helms Deep begins, Aragorn yells “LADDERS!” in Sindarin to warn everyone about the ladders. To which Gimli immediately responds, “good !”
Which means Gimli understood him without translation, which means he’s definitely learned at least a bit of Sindarin by now. Which is CUTE.
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Hey, you know who was the most influential unnamed person in the whole Silmarillion?
That guy that took Silmaril to Dior* after Luthien and Beren’s death.
He had the Silmaril. He could do anything with it - run with it, eat it, take it outside the Girdle...
How do we know that Silmaril was meant to go to Dior* and not, say, Sons of Feanor?
*Edit: In a totally unexpected (...yeah) turn of events, I actually remembered this wrong! After Luthien and Beren’s death The Guy took the Nauglamir (?) with Silmaril in it to Doriath to give it to DIOR, not Thingol. Thingol was dead at that point. Thanks to everyone for pointing it out! (not changing the tags, let them be a reminder for me to read Silmarillion again)
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