#queen bortë

[squirrelwrangler]

I know it's from 7yrs ago, but I just read your post: 49994669331/heresies-bor-the-easterlings (B/c, via a chain of thought involving kobolds, goblins, orcs, elves, holiday elves, Santa, Gandalf, & Tuor, I thought about Bór's folk, got sad, & went looking for nice things about them.) I just wanted to add that, IMO, if any of Bór's folk survived (& I choose to belive), they would be counted as a 5th house of Edain, technically making Ulfang's folk Middle Men.

I love my Bór (and if you haven’t read my stories for them I hope you do) and I will die on the hill that is Elros’s Wife, First Queen of Númenor, was Bortë of the Bór and that they were small but considered Edain -and that a very large part of Númenor’s founding population was Easterling either outright or via fathers and grandfathers -and that it was more politically savvy and safe to claim that they were Bór instead of descendants of Ulfang’s tribe/allied tribes. And that it is only when Númenor becomes the imperial power subjugating the men of Middle-earth that a white-washing of Bortë begins, and the vulture of the Bór is demonized alongside the fear of death/rejection of mortality, until it and her are erased from history.

#replies #bór #queen bortë #the heresies posts are old but only really the formating is why i retired them #Anonymous

[squirrelwrangler]

also i love your oc borte (legit a crime that elros' wife wasnt recorded tbh) and i'd love to hear your thoughts on her relationship with her daughter! the edain eventually all gained longer lives by living on numenor, i forget if you wrote this as applying to borte or if she lives a regular edain lifespan - tindomiel probably lives to be 400 though which is twice as long as regular dunedain, which is sad to think about

The question of whether the advanced lifespan of Númenoreans only kicked in with those born on the island or if living on the island itself started to prolong the lifespan is an interesting one and something that lends instead to major generational divides that make for fun storytelling - the same phenomenon that gave me a 180 perspective flip on the Unbegotten of Cuiviénen once I realized the massive gulf between the generation that had no definitive answer for how they entered the world and had entered it already with a partner but also the loneliness of no parents. Because I don't want too much sadness and because my headcanon for Bortë and indeed all of the early Númenorean worldbuilding connecting to her first half-Easterling raised with Vanyar foster-uncles queen doesn't work if Bortë dies while the island is still in that 50-100 years of settlement and before the canon births of all the children ... So by the nature of all my previous work and current fics, Bortë and thus the Edain settlers that aren't Elros himself (who had peredhil exceptionalism) need to have an extended lifespan. Do I think canon supports this? Eh, I think once they land on Numenor, there is a case for the blessed land itself to start slowly their aging at least a few decades. Not super dramatically, and that the mortals born on Númenor itself have a greatly extended lifespan, so that yes, Bortë herself only lives to barely 180 or so, being well into middle-aged when her last children are born. That her relationship with her daughter was fine, but that since Bortë died at the start of Tindomiel's very long and extended adulthood, the family has more time functioning as 'widower and his adult children' than they did 'complete nuclear family'. Aside from some interludes in 'In Need of a Cold Shower' that has Elros, Bortë, and their kids at the breakfast table, I haven't written or thought about the characters and their dynamics much as of yet. There's another fic too that if I get around to continuing would have Númenor as the setting and thus make me start to write the entire royal family as at least cameos.

What I have thought of is how the Bór assimilate the Valar into their preexisting life/death dichotomy of the Eagle and Vulture, where the feminine vulture protects the dead and ancestral history and is stars-death-afterlife-recovery-tradition, so that there is this undercurrent that the king, alive, rules in Armenelos, and it is fitting that the queen, dead, rules in Noirinan. And once the Valley of Tombs becomes a place to fear going to and avoid at all costs, it couples with misogyny.

#replies #queen bortë

[squirrelwrangler]

i was surprised when i foudn out you didnt care much about numenor bc of how much work you put into writing borte and the attention you give women in the legendarium - the mariner's wife and the ruling queens give us some of the most significant women in all of arda!

There's Early Númenor/the founding of Númenor, which is a type of story that does interest me (see my writing for the Edain entering into Beleriand and my focus on Cuiviénen) and then there's middle to late Imperial Númenor, which sucks any interest I had in not!Atlantis down to the bottom of the ocean. I like the start of places and not the highs and ends, on the average. Gondor during the Kin-strife but not the reign of its Conquering Seafaring Kings. The Mariner's Wife is some of the most detailed and well-rounded character and worldbuilding work in Tolkien's Legendarium, and like the Narn, I can appreciate it but it's not my favorite and focus. I do have mutuals that love and pour effort into Númenor and their ruling queens and would-be queens, so I defer to them. Bortë, one can tell, is driven by my love and interest in the Bór and War of Wrath and how what happened near the end of the First Age -the Hadorim under two generations of Easterling rule, the other Edain groups as minority refugee groups- influencing the founding, would impact the initial character of Númenor and thus what would be downplayed later. It's that I don't have interest in Númenor once it's a hundred years old/anyone beyond the generation that moved there that I don't have meta for Tindomiel, let alone any other royal ladies.

Now, I once had negative interest in any Avari but thanks to a fusion idea and some canon inversion that is changing, so I won't say never.

#replies #i'm pro-Edain and pro-Seafolk but Numenor does not attract me

[squirrelwrangler]

More of THIS FIC, focusing a little more on the other half of the horny duo (keep praying for Elrond’s sanity):

Another letter to his twin brother. Dear Elros, I hear that Bortë is pregnant once more. Congratulations on fatherhood for the third time. I may have made a mistake in volunteering myself for this adventure.

...

“Infuriating man. Makes me want to choke him. He’d probably like it. Wants me to do that.” She paused, confused, her voice turning quiet and lost as she questioned herself. “Why did I think that and know it for the truth?”

Elrond did not answer her, though he could have with a single word: oswarë.

...

“His voice is deeper than one would imagine, for he is not particularly tall, and while finely muscled,” Helcerían paused to once again appreciate a pair of arms, “not broad across the chest and torso. But his voice is like an Ainur, how deeply it resonates. How,” a curl of lower lip under her teeth, “powerful.”

...

“Ice-crowned- it is a prophetic name.”

Helcerían sighed. “The name that my parents chose for me at birth was Isilwen, to honor Princess Ilsë, the Grand Admiral of Alqualondë. I did not care for it. For a time, after my family’s death, others called me Helceórë, the Ice-heart. In my grief, that epessë did not bother me, but when I healed, as cilmessë the name Helcerían felt more hopeful and true.”

“Your choice was lovely,” Elrond said. With a twinge of mischievousness, he turned back to ask Seregeithon’s option. “Don’t you agree?”

The older man grunted.

“We need not question how the Bloody Spear got his name,” Helcerían sniped. As Elrond was the only one facing behind to see Seregeithon’s face, he was the only witness to the flash of hurt.

...

“Oh,” Helcerían exclaimed, her wonder puffing out like the cloud of condensed water in the cold dry air to hang in the stillness, “look! A northern oliphaunt.” She pointed to the slowly grazing beasts in the far distance, their thick brown fur making them seem like rocks if not for their movement. “The Farshore still has them.” Seregeithon and Elrond wanted to interrupt the Falmari woman to explain that to them, Middle-earth was the Hither Shores, and that few things could sound more bizarre to their ears than to hear a woman of the Haerast speak such, but then Helcerían continued in a mix of wonder and sadness. “We lost our northern oliphaunts. The Earth Queen, Yavanna, needed to reintroduce them to the land, after the Sun and Moon settled into their paths across the firmament. We lost many living beings after the death of the Two Trees - but the great woolly-coated oliphaunts we lost because of the Noldor that crossed the Helcaraxë, slaughtering the herds to survive the journey across the ice desert, too many for the animals to recover. I thought, I thought they would not have survived on this shore too, what with the war.”

#working on silm fic #wip #the second age meets coerthas winter adventure ficlet #the working title i think will be 'in need of an ice cold shower' #need to double-check the quenya for iceheart but bleugh #elrond debates dunking them both in the icy water more than once #two elves discover their laundry list of personal kinks while third wheel chronicles this to his twin brother

[squirrelwrangler]

M (fanfic ask game)

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

Oooh, okay so here are the potential fic ideas I can think of off the top of my head; some have been around for years so it’s just a matter of when I get to them- ‘Blood on Bone for a Lover’s Burial’ is an example of this:

The Great Fever of Dorthonion, in where as plague hits Ladros and young Baragund and Belegund are sent to live with their aunt Andreth for the summer. Inspired in part by the London children sent to the countryside for magical adventures subgenre, the boys uncover the secret.

Elu and Ingu swap places canon divergent AU to Of Ingwë Ingweron where the Vanyar are stuck behind in Beleriand while all the Teleri go. Featuring the platonic best friends Ingwë and Melian (a boy and his bird), the Minyar Queens Council, Ravennë’s internal struggles, Sauron is caught before his can cause big problems later, and ends with the uncomfortable realization that I have set up the perfect excuse for Fëanor/Indis.

Galadhon asks Círdan about their estranged family in Valinor.

continue Bân and Aereth’s volunteer mission to kickstart agriculture in Númenor.

The Hangover starring the Band of the Red Hand.

Another disaster buddy comedy adventure staring the Band, narrated by Faron, on why a camping trip turned into a disaster, the conclusion of which might involve Mandos again.

A short life story of Bortë, First Queen of Númenor

Elros and Elrond successfully escape Maedhros and Maglor and are rescued by the Nandor (this might just become an interlude inside the “In Need of a Cold Shower aka Elrond quests with two horny but bickering elves to find why the polar cap is in trouble”)

the Míriel/Daeron/Durin ot3 once I have a plot for it

#meme replies #Anonymous

[squirrelwrangler]

WIP List, updated for 4/22

Now that the Bân of My Existence fic is finally finished and posted, aka #6 on the Tol-in-Gaurhoth kill list, time to see what’s left on the proverbial docket:

Beren’s Band of the Red Hand, #3 - Aglar

Beren’s Band of the Red Hand, #8 - Gadwar

Beren’s Band of the Red Hand, #10 - Edrahil

(#10 Finrod?)

Release from Bondage - only have Chapters 11 and 12 left.

Bân and Fân’s Excellent Adventure

The Hangover, featuring the Band of the Red Hand

Of Ingwë Ingweron - chapters 6+

The Vanyar and Teleri switch narratives AU, aka Queen Ravennë

Best AU EVAR aka Fëanor is never born

The Great Fever of Dorthonion

Andreth gets into a Song Duel with Hadorim Fuckboi

Meng Jiang-nu of Dorthonion

Galadhon asks Círdan about their relatives across the sea

The conclusion to the Baby Eöl, Your Parents are Orcs

Dwarf watches Thingol mourn Denethor

Thingol drunkenly reminisces with Huan about Hound-shaped Maia at Cuiviénen

Vagabond Gondor

Bortë of the War of Wrath and First Queen of Númenor

Trying to remember any others I’ve hinted, pondered, suggested, or have a start of a draft. Open to suggestions.

And of course the various bits of the original universe Rose Red stuff, especially Under the Rose Hood and the Sad Dog Squire Story.

#ramblings #personal waffling #sometimes i indulge in lists