#they don't have the Rohirric translation of Cream Dream

[laquilasse]

In the fantasy au if Dick is an elf is he immortal?

…hm.this is.. a good questionTo be honest? I haven’t really decided. It has a lot to do with the fact that I draw from both DnD lore and Tolkien lore, which have very different elf rules. DnD elves can live up to 750 years old, while Tolkien elves linger until they’re literally too depressed and weary of the world that they sail to elf heaven. The main reason I wanted to make Dick an elf is based in Tolkien though. Mainly how notably their souls can feel deep levels of emotion, which we also see from him in canon (namely his legendary anger vs his capacity to be sunshine, and also his ability to be empathetic to anyone that needs it). The other thing about Dick’s background in this is that I kind of had to mix elvish and fey stuff to get the effect I wanted, since it’s not really a well known fact that Tolkien specifically intended for his elves to be fey-like (I learned this when I was reading Christopher Tolkien’s notes in Beren and Luthien. He actually regretted calling them elves apparently).

I think what will have to happen is for me to decide this based on what lore I pull from more. The world at large has much more DnD elements to it, seeing as there’s half orcs like Jason and dragonborn like Damian, which just don’t happen in Tolkien stuff. However, the rules that I use for Dick almost always follow the rules of Tolkien elves (besides the ability to summon lightning and use his sword as a conduit to control it. I just wanted that because It’s Really Cool, Alright). In fact, I was looking for a name for Dick’s horse in the fic that @preciousthingsareprecious is writing right now, and I ended up going to elfdict (a Middle Earth Elvish translation website) to find one. I guess Sindarin exists in this AU apparently..???

so… you can see that there’s a lot of things to consider lmao. But what will probably end up happening is that I’ll think of something great that depends on either his eventual mortality or immortality, and go with that.

#also #other things I found while looking for horse names #the Rohirric word for 'swift' is 'arod' #Eomer just named a horse Swift #gj bby #go ahead and give that horse to the future king of gondor's bff #anon #ask #batman fantasy au #i mean i doubt eomer named Arod himself but it's hilarious how much simpler lotr horse names are #they don't have the Rohirric translation of Cream Dream