bretwalda-lamnguin reblogged
currently entertaining the headcanon that gondor looks to melian as a "patron saint" of sorts. like — they canonically pray to the valar, the númenóreans venerated uinien, and when it comes to melian, they're her literal descendants for the most part. and then there's the fact that they're at war so the idea of the girdle is really appealing, symbolically — and in the histories melian's power stood specifically against sauron.
#melian#gondor#i like this#gondorian soldiers keeping pendants or amulets with Melian's device for protection against the dark power#her name invoked as protection against evil#denethor who doesn't consider himself superstitious but still offers a small prayer to his great ancestor melian#every time he uses the palantir to turn aside sauron's thought and shield his own mind#just as her own power resisted that of morgoth and sauron#faramir and boromir invoking her when they face the nazgul