#elves don’t get sick so gil galad would like to help but doesn’t know how to#gil galad: yes i know i’m the king and am needed elsewhere but my herald is dying—#elrond: i’m not dying. i have a cold. i’ll be better in a week#gil galad: and i need to comfort him and keep him from trying to work—#elrond: he tied me to the bed. i have loyal followers you know they won’t stand for this#gil galad: don’t sic the feanorians on me#(the feanorians are on gil-galad’s side on this one. they feel very strange about siding with gil-galad over elrond.) -@eleneressea
Consider: the feanorians share his opinion because they have established visceral memories of elros and elrond getting tummy bugs, and vomiting all over maglor and maedhros.
small children + new environments + stress = those kids spent at least a year getting every illness imaginable. Being half-elves helped, but not enough to keep them from getting sick in the first place. They also probably unintentionally ate something poisonous at least once.
The only time the twins were actually tied up and not just locked into a room in the Fëanorians’ care was when they kept trying to escape while orcs were attacking. (Maedhros did not like restraints and avoided them as much as possible.) Elrond does not think this is sufficient precedent to justify tying him to the bed to make him rest.
#a feanorian sitting on elrond: if we let you up you would try to work and make your illness worse#feanorian: we have orders from our lords to take care of you so we can’t allow that. sorry#elrond who is not sulking: i thought i was your lord#feanorian: maedhros and maglor’s orders take precedence over yours little star -@eleneressea
You just know that Elrond insisted on a modified version of the feanorian loyalty oath that emphasized individual moral judgment over obedience to Elrond. And you know he’s regretting that as he’s plied with plenty of fluids from beneath a rotating cast of feanorians playing human weighted blanket to keep him in bed.
He was very happy to play the “healer’s orders” card when it meant getting Maedhros and Maglor to take care of themselves, and now he’s got one of Gil-galad’s other healers playing the healer card on him, and just to make it worse Celebrimbor sent a letter just to laugh at him for all of this. Elrond will get his revenge. He’s not sure how yet, but he will.
…I can’t decide if Elrond is very very bad at revenge, or frighteningly good.
(If you learned more than one, pick the one you learned the most or took for the longest time or enjoyed the most or whatever. Pick the one most meaningful to you.)
So going over the Hobbit with my best friend and the thing is, this is the first time since becoming thoroughly enmeshed in the Silmarillion that I’ve touched the Hobbit and I just…. how is no one talking about this part of “Misty Mountains”
On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, on crowns they hung The dragon-fire, in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun.
“And the inner fire of the Silmarils
Fëanor
made of the blended light of the Trees of Valinor, which lives in them yet, though the Trees have long withered and shine no more.” – Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor, the Silmarillion
So like, after the first elves awoke, they woke up the others that were still sleeping, right? What if one of them was just. Not noticed. By any of them.
(Maybe he was under a bush or something)
What if he kinda stayed there.
What if he was found a few thousand years later under a pile of moss and fungus. What if he was GIL GALAD EREINI-
I know, I know, gatekeeping the outdoors, that’s supposedly bad, right, but I think if you show up to do a hike and you brought a portable speaker with you to play music while you hike, I think, like hear me out, there should be a gate, and someone at the gate should keep you from doing the hike.
playing music in public should get strong social disapproval
Recorded music, anyway. Live music is different rules. If you want to lug an entire cello up a mountain you can do whatever the hell you want.
if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking “heat exhaustion symptoms” i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you’re aware it’s even an issue. ohh my god
if you are outside and it is hot and sunny and you are sweating thru your clothes or feeling tired or starting to get irrationally agitated or upset in another way or feeling nauseous or your heart is pounding etc etc if you are feeling Weird and Bad for no apparent reason while you are in a warm/hot area then i have news for you! you need to cool down! right now! oh my god.
and there’s a very good chance that you’re gonna think “it’s not heat exhaustion, i don’t feel any warmer than i have all day” when you consider it as a reason why you are suddenly feeling weirdbad for no apparent reason during a record-breaking heatwave and i would like to say. there is no harm in sitting in the shade and drinking some water even if heat exhaustion isn’t the cause of whatever ailment is inflicting itself upon u. once i swore up and down to my bf that i was just kinda tired and headachy and got bitchy about the possibility of being overheated and needing to drink water. because heat exhaustion tends to make you bitchy. but i did as he asked and drank some cold water and my condition immediately improved. because it was heat exhaustion and heat exhaustion is evil and a liar. sit down. drink water
Got a Celebrimbor headcanon this time, brainrot bless my nonexistent soul
I like the idea that Celebrimbor inherited Feanor’s Glare™️ because it’s a funny image to think of his father and uncles seeing him after being reembodied and at one point getting a Scalding Glare™️ and immediately getting war flashbacks from their first lives l’mao like-
Curufin, trying to Be A Dad: Tyelpë no
Celebrimbor, who spent thousands of years without Adult Supervision™️ in Endorë: *Glares Exactly Like Feanor*
Curufin, immediately yanked into 5 different flashbacks at once: i think i need to sit down *collapses into a chair*
Also funny to think of Gil-Galad and Elrond being completely unaffected by Feanor glaring at them cuz they got used to Celebrimbor glaring at them while sleep-deprived and covered in forge soot. They just can’t take a Feanor Glare™️ seriously anymore
