Imagine Mandos before Dagor Bragolach

Like just strolling around his halls, nothing much happening aside from keeping an eye on Fëanor now and then

Calm and relative quiet, enough halls and room for everyone….

AND SUDDENLY THOUSANDS OF BURNED ELVES POP UP

FOLLOWED BY MEN

FOLLOWED BY MORE ELVES

AND AS HE RUNS AROUND WITH HIS MAIAR, BUSY AND BITTER AS FUCK, TRYING TO FIT THE SUDDENLY TOO MANY GUESTS INTO ROOMS AND CELLS AND HALLS

FROM SOMEWHERE DEEP DARK DOWN

THERE IS A CRY

“BROTHER! FINALLY! LET’S TALK ABOUT THE SHIPS” “THAT’S /HALF/ BROTHER TO YOU”

And that is how ‘migraine’ was invented

The Nirnaeth couldn’t have been fun either.

“Just so we’re clear, Maedhros did nothing wrong”

“Eru damn it, Fingon”

Námo deserves it.

Hahaha!

The house of Finwe, the original definition of disfunctional.

"While still in early youth Fëanor wedded Nerdanel, a maiden of the Noldor; at which many wondered, for she was not among the fairest of her people."

(Morgoth's Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien)

Call her "not the fairest" where Fëanor can hear you and see what happens.

Go on.

I refuse to believe he wasn't truly, madly, deeply, passionately in love with her. Which means that to him, she was absolutely the fairest, most beautiful living elleth.

And you cannot tell me he wouldn't have shouted it from the rooftops.

Guy is literally names "fiery soul", he is not subtle. Or reserved. The entire damn continent will know how he feels.

If she had not reciprocated his feelings, the moping would have been epic.

Also tell me this chronicle was written after Fëanor and his sons were safely dead without telling me this chronicle was written after Fëanor and his sons were safely dead.

No way they wouldn't have rearranged the writer's face for them.

Y'all need to see this omfg this is so good holy shit I'm so normal about this

Woah! Brilliant performance!

Anaire: “So how’s life with a baby?”

Nerdanel: “Exhausting. I didn't know that it was possible for someone to cry this much.”

Indis: “Oh, I’m sure he’ll grow out of it soon.”

Nerdanel: “Oh no, no, no, no. The baby’s an angel, he’s no trouble at all.”

Earwen: “...But you just said-?”

Feanor, holding baby Maitimo and crying: “Nerdanel, I love him so much!”

I feel like Bilbo would teach the elves of Rivendell the concept of a mathom with the express purpose of oh so politely asking them over dinner how were the Silmarils not a mathom

Random Feanorian elf inherited by Elrond: That's not... No.

Bilbo: Oh so they were useful?

Elf: Well. No, not exactly

Bilbo: But the owners didn't want to throw them away.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: And they were in possession of several people over the course of years.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: That's a mathom.

Elf: No! We loved them because were very pretty!!! And one of a kind!!! Crafted by hands more skilled than any of ours!!!

Bilbo: Yes, like my great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

Elf, in tears: The Silmarils were not like your great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

Bilbo: How's The Great Mathom War as a title for a poem about the First Age?

By the way, it's important to me that Elrond supports Bilbo's claim and finds it quite insightful actually

I will never not reblog this!

Now if we could only get Feanor’s expression if he were to hear this!

Fëanor by Soni Alcorn-Hender

This is good! They’ve really captured the Spirit of Fire, especially in the eyes.