Aredhel the White – in a modern version of the Silmarillion… during the Event of the Century in Valinor… Finwë’s centennial gala is an extremely anticipated recurring event… after all, everyone knows that Finwë and his family will be amongst the most well dressed that night, and everybody across Valinor can’t wait to see what dazzling looks they deliver!
kinda want to do all finweans in their “gala attire” now haha
[image description: a 3x3 moodboard. 1: green neon heart with stars inside it with the words “don’t look at me” 2: a forest staircase. 3: green foliage. 4: a white city. 5: aredhel from the silmarillion on a background of the aromantic flag; aredhel is a dark-skinned black elf-woman with dark curly hair, wearing white. 6: a heart-shaped lime cut in half. 7: a silver tiara. 8: a dark-skinned woman wearing glitter. 9: silhouette of hands reaching up toward the moon. end image description.]
My gift to @isilloth for the @officialtolkiensecretsanta, who requested a fic about Aredhel and/or Caranthir/Haleth. Well you get Aredhel, and a side of Caranthir/Haleth, in a Modern AU.
Summary : If she can get her life together, and if her family doesn’t have anything to say Aredhel might just survive this Christmas. And then become the person she always wanted to be. Who knows?
Their sister was Aredhel the White. She was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brothers; and when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved much to ride and hunt in the forests. […] Tononewasherheart’slovegiven
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie”
[ID: A six-picture edit for Aredhel, focussing on her relationship with various figures in her life. The edit is mostly in shades of green, and on every second image there are five smaller images in the colours of the aromantic pride flag (two shades of green, white, grey, and black). Here’s what the images show (Top to bottom, left to right)
The first image focuses on Aredhel and her relationship with Anaire. The central image is the south-sudanese model Adut Akech, a woman with dark brown skin and black hair, here worn in braids, dressed in a green gown. There’s a text overlay, reading “Aredhel & Anaire”. The five smaller images show green gems, a green butterfly, a lacy white veil, a wooded hill with a sun rising behind it making the top gleam, A black woman holding a baby.
This image is about Aredhel’s relationship with Turgon. Text reading “Turgon” and “I am your sister and not your servant, and beyond your bounds I will go as seems good to me” is set over an image of a mountain range.
Image three is for Aredhel’s relationship to Maeglin. An image of a forest features text reading “Maeglin” and “Then Aredhel was glad, and looked with pride upon her son”.
The fourth image focuses on Aredhel and Idril, the central image showing Adut Akech, with short hair and in a green dress, holding a chlid. The text reads “Aredhel & Idril”, and the smaller images show a statue of a crying girl, a forested plain with mountains in the distance, a woman in a white dress running up steps, a fountain, a black woman braiding a little girl’s hair.
This image is about Arehdel and Galadriel. The center image is one of Adut Akech wearing a green coat with detailed embroidery and a hat with a tulle veil, the text over it reads “Aredhel & Galadriel”. The smaller images show water lilies, a green gown with golden detailing, three horses, slices of lemon with little blossoms around them, a black woman with golden makeup and a halo-like crown.
The last image is for the relationship between Aredhel and Celegorm. It shows text reading “Celegorm” and “She was often in the company of the sons of Feanor, her kin” over a picture of someone shooting an arrow while riding a horse.
Following the success of Fëanorian Week and Gondolin Week with so many support and love from you guys, and for tons of messages we ( @windrelyn ) have received since yesterday asking if we are going to celebrate Nolofinwëan Week, we decided that…YES! We’re in!
Nolofinwëan Week 2019 will happen from August 4th to August 10th, 2019* for full seven days! Details for each day is as follow.
Day 1 – August 4th: Fingolfin & Anairë
Day 2 – August 5th: Fingon
Day 3 – August 6th: Turgon & Elenwë
Day 4 – August 7th: Aredhel
Day 5 – August 8th: Argon
Day 6 – August 9th: Idril
Day 7 – August 10th: Maeglin
*We choose this particular period because it includes number “456”, which was the year our High King Fingolfin challenged the Dark Lord Morgoth.
ANY forms of fan works: edits, fanfics, meta, fan art, video, etc. is accepted and appreciated.
To participate, please add #nolofinweanweek to your posts.
As always, our box is open for any questions and suggestions!
They ventured out, in that first month, only a few hundred yards onto the Ice. People were going to die – Findekáno knew it, Nolofinwë knew it, the host now dug in on the shores of Araman knew it very well. But no one has died yet, and in a way it paralyzed them, waiting for it. They inched along the sheer ice faces and rolled logs across to test where it can bear the weight and were painstakingly, excruciatingly, careful.
Climbing the ice was not in fact particularly difficult – not as difficult as Findekáno had imagined it, certainly. They had broken down the wagons into thick ice picks. You lit a fire at the bottom of a cliff and left the ice picks in it, to absorb the heat, so later they would slide like butter into their positions on the cliff. You stood there and held them, heat eating its way through your mittens and hand, and waited for the ice to freeze again around your new addition. And then you climbed down, grabbed another, climbed up, did it again. They were testing the best pick shapes and the best distances; the cliffs on the lip of Araman were studded with climbing holds, and with climbers.
“At this rate -” Findekáno said to his father -
“It would take us ten Years,” his father said grimly. “We won’t proceed at this rate, we learn more every day.”
