Does Anyone Remember How Jealous Gajeel Got When He Didn’t Have A Cat Like All The Other Exceeds And

Does anyone remember how jealous Gajeel got when he didn’t have a cat like all the other exceeds and then literally went looking through stray cats for one?

Cause I sure do.

Silmarillion headcanons #2

So yeah, I have some headcanons regarding the races of different tribes of Elves and Men that imo would work if we adapted Silm as a series or anime, as them being all white is... boring

Seriously: boring af and it's not acceptable

I have some reasonings for my decisions, but most of them were made only bc of THE ALMIGHTY VIBES

inb4: I would like to say that I wanted it to be as respectful to all the races as possible (their history and culture), but if I made a mistake of some sort, plz call me out

So let's start from the beginning

ELVES

Noldor

White

I made this decision tbh purely on the fact that the only red heads we know come from the Noldor (Mahtan, Maedhros, unoficially Nerdanel)

Also, let's be honest

They jumped on a ship in order to gain new territories and kingdoms..........

Vanyar

Black

It's not my headcanon and I've seen that one is popular in the fandom as Indis being black makes Fingolfin (&Finarfin, Lalwen and Findis) mixed and therefore allows us to have mixed!Fingon with his beautiful braids ♡

Also, I imagine that the 'golden hair issue' may be solved with:

Vanyar looking black but having golden hair. They are Elves, not human, they don't have to look the same

Ooooor (and I like this hc better)

Putting gold flakes or golden ribbons (ekhem Fingon) just being very fashionable among the Vanyar

Or both tbh

Teleri & Sindar

East Asian

I've put them together as one race in order to show the closeness of these two tribes (as Elwe and Olwe were brothers) to the viewer bc it would make the tragedy of Thingol finding out about Alqualonde even more dramatic

Also, traditional East Asian ships fit the artistry of Telerin ships soooo well

This one is Chinese

On top of that, I LOOOVE the sound of the Chinese bamboo flute and plz Daeron has to play it

Plus, beautiful flowy dresses (a hanfu in the pic)& jewelery from Eastern Asia would be PERFECT for Luthien, you can't disagree bc I'm right

And we can always make their hair white/gray/blond if we need to

MEN

House of Beör

White, cause it's said they resemble the Noldor afaik

Gotta be consequent

more Mediterranean tho to give them their iconic brown hair

House of Hador

Southern Asian

Numenor has to resemble this kind of architecture and give THE VIBES, okay??

Ughhhh the 'blond hair issue' again

Okay, idc how they are described, they can dye their hair I guess, making them white would ruin my concept

House of Haleth

Native Americans

I have one reason & one reason only!!!

NATIVE AMERICAN HALETH

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk

Okay, that's it, hope you liked it, I don't have any ideas for the Elven Avari or Sylvan tribes, so gimme your hcs if u have any ♡

the tale of Aragorn and Arwen is a horror story, or a cautionary tale at least.

Every time I reread the Tale of Arwen and Aragorn I think…whether Tolkien intended it or not, this is a horror story about people casting Arwen into the role of Lúthien, a tragedy about someone being compared to a heroic ancestress because of her looks so many times that she might start to believe it– but in the end finds out that she is nothing like her. And she finds out too late.

The first meeting of Aragorn and Arwen is not about Arwen at all, but her ability to look like a figure out of song, which allows Aragorn to cast himself as a heroic Beren figure (and people love those who allow them to imagine being something more than they are);

For a moment Aragorn gazed in silence, but fearing that she would pass away and never be seen again, he called to her crying, Tinúviel, Tinúviel! even as Beren had done in the Elder Days long ago. Then the maiden tured to him and smiled, and she said: ‘Who are you? And why do you call me by that name?” And he answered: “Because I believe you to be indeed Lúthien Tinúviel of whom I was singing. But if you are not she, then you walk in her likeness.” “So many have said,” she answered gravely. “Yet her name is not mine.”

And Arwen has grown up with the story of Beren and Lúthien. As long as she can remember people have seen Lúthien in her.

Aragorn falls in love at first sight; but not in love with Arwen, not really, because he doesn’t know her. He falls in love with the image of Lúthien while singing of her; he falls in love with the idea of himself as heroic as Beren, too. Nothing is mentioned of Arwen having feelings for him at this point. It is not at all love at first sight as it was for B&L. In fact, Elrond says she likely thinks he is below her, not just in age or experience but in lineage. I don’t think he would lie, despite his lack of enthusiasm;

But as for Arwen the Fair, Lady of Imladris and of Lórien, Evenstar of her people, she is of lineage greater than yours, and she has lived in the world already so long that to her you are but as a yearling shoot beside a young birch of many summers. She is too far above you. And so, I think, it may well seem to her. But even if it were not so, and her heart turned towards you, I should still be grieved because of the doom that is laid on us.”

Luthien did most certainly did not care about Beren’s ‘great lineage’– which was not really much of one yet at the time, at least not one to impress the half-Ainu daughter of Thingol, who claimed to be King of all Beleriand. If there is any reason for their love at all (other than high doom)– it is maybe Beren’s personality. He kills no animal. He tries to be good in a very harsh world. He was about 32 years old, and unlikely to ever be King of anything.

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