are you flipping my flops rn??

Headcanon that somehow Finrod is Elrond’s most legally legitimate relative besides Galadriel, Celebrian, and his children (Aragorn excluded).

• Whenever Finrod had a Good Friendship with a Beorian they would make him a godfather of their kid(s).

• Beren is legally Finrod’s godchild (along with several other beorians).

• Then Luthien and Beren decided to honor Finrod by making him the godfather of their kid, Dior.

• By some divine humor, Dior adds Finrod to the legal family registry as his uncle or something.

• Elwing keeps the family registry as it is because if her dad claimed this “Finrod ‘Nóm’ Felagund” is family, it must be true.

• The argument can be made that Elwing left her kids, sure, but whatever anyone’s opinion about Elwing is, Finrod is still legally e&e’s grand-uncle/great-grandfather

Now for the other side!

• Finrod is Idril’s honorary uncle and legal guardian if her parents die. Because Turgon in Valinor never thought death would be a thing and he wanted to annoy his siblings.

• Idril makes Finrod Earendil’s Honorary Grand-Uncle and Legal Guardian, to keep the joke going in an increasingly stressful world.

• Eärendil doesn’t know the joke but the paperwork says Finrod Felagund is his family, and they’re both blonde so it’s probably true.

• Eärendil makes sure to put Finrod in the family registry after Gondolin has fallen and he is all grown up. Gil-Galad squints, but doesn’t question The Dreaded Finwean Family Tree™️.

• Eärendil does not think to communicate Grand-Uncle Finrod to Elwing.

• Elwing does not think to talk to Eärendil about Grand-Uncle Finrod.

And finally

• By his marriage to Celebrian, Elrond is legally Finrod’s nephew-in-law.

• By his feanorian kidnap-adoption, Elrond is Finrod’s second half-cousin.

• Once in Valinor; Elrond has to read all this paperwork and go through the slow realization of “Finrod, again.” As the sunshine elf continues to pop up Everywhere in his family tree both biological and adoptive.

Of course, there are other people that Elrond is also ridiculously related to but, the idea of Finrod “That Friendly Guy” Felagund somehow being Elrond’s most Legally-Binding relative is great.

Dior: this is a gem my parents won…

Curufin : …yes?

Dior: And it’s cursed?

Maedhros: if you don’t want it, you could give it back

Dior: (holding it to his chest)…no

Celegorm: (grinning) then it’s really very cursed

Love Doriath’s royal family. We give Fëanor a lot of credit for the unhinged fairytale logic he seems to function on but Doriath stays at his level for several centuries. Just a whole family of “oh, oh? you want to fight? watch this” *explodes into feathers*

Thingol: sprints into the woods to become a missing person then shows up with a god-wife, always ready to throw a temper tantrum and challenge someone to an impossible quest

Melian: turned part of the landscape into an evil spider zone, weirdly chill about her daughter going to fight Satan, loses it with impressive alacrity when her husband dies

Lúthien: passionate love story involves her beating up several evil divinities and wolves while shouting at her parents that they don’t understand her anymore

Dior: beauty and spite, sends hate mail that leads to sectarian violence, unclear if he killed all three of Fëanor’s sons himself

Elwing: jumps off a cliff and turns into a bird which is frankly cooler than lighting yourself on fire out of sheer rage because birds have beaks that you can continue to assault your enemies with

Túrin(adopted): Túrin

I think the version where Daeron is Luthien’s brother makes it even funnier because nobody even questions Luthien being first in line for the throne. Daeron is the greatest (or second greatest) musician of all time and invented an alphabet that’s still in regular use thousands of years later but he’s still overshadowed by his sister. Somewhere along the way he goes hiking and never comes back and nobody misses him, and if that isn’t the epitome of middle child syndrome (Turin being the younger sibling), I don’t know what is.