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NAME OF YOUR MUSE: Berúthiel; nickname Berú (birth name Tamar Margoliantë)
ONE PICTURE YOU LIKE BEST OF YOUR MUSE: i have multiple FCs and she has no set canon appearance or actress soooooo imma just go with THIS lovely piece of art my friend did recently! clickies!

TWO HEADCANONS YOU HAVE FOR YOUR MUSE YOU NEVER TOLD ANYONE:

She’ll tell anyone who asks that the reason she sought out immortality was the same reason Ar-Pharazon and the King’s Men of Numenor claimed they wished to seek it – anger at the Valar for denying them all the gifts given to the elves. And maybe that anger was actually genuine, after what she was taught and experienced. But in reality, her reasons were the same as Ar-Pharazon’s likely actually were – fear. Fear of dying, fear of what comes next, fear of the unknown. At times, that fear was the only thing which kept her alive at times when despair might otherwise have swamped her under.

She actually did hate the cats at first. She’d always preferred birds, specifically but not limited to desert crows. The cats, who were strays all from one litter, bothered her, they were strange, stand-offish creatures; and yet they were drawn to her, apparently, and wouldn’t leave her alone. It was a rare day in the garden, after a point, where there wasn’t at least one cat within her line of vision, even if they never quite got close enough to be petted. Eventually, desperately lonely as she was, Berúthiel accepted the companionship the cats offered and the rest, as we say, is history.

THREE THINGS YOUR MUSE LIKES DOING IN THEIR FREE TIME:

Poking around in booksellers’ wares. She has quite a collection of rare old codices and scrolls and even tablets from the days before paper-making; and she’s taught herself the tongues that the oldest were written in so she could translate them all. Related to this: making those translations.

Gardening, mostly of great thorny hedges of roses; and of herbs. She tries to cultivate species from her homeland, but lacking a hot house, most of them won’t grow well. The few that do are her pride and joy. It’s a properly witchy pastime.

Writing poetry, mostly in her birth-tongue but occasionally in others, as the mood takes her. Few people have ever read any of it.

SEVEN PEOPLE THAT YOUR MUSE LIKES/LOVES:

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This is completely verse dependent… like in canon there’s not even one name, ha

TWO THINGS YOUR MUSE REGRETS:

Sometimes she regrets having made herself so impossible for the people of Gondor to love. It would have been better for her father’s political aims if she’d made even a slight attempt to fit in and adopt their ways; and it would have been better for her, in some sense. Maybe she could have had friends, if never a loving husband. (But she also felt, and still feels, that she should not have had to change for anyone to accept her.)

Idk man… she isn’t really a ‘regret’ sort of person. Uh. In the modernverse specifically that I share with @curufinwefeanaro she probably regrets having married that asshole…. (not feanor. he’s also an asshole, but she doesn’t regret him at all.)

A PHOBIA YOUR MUSE HAS:

The deep ocean. She hates the scent of the sea, and gets seasick, but it’s all translated into a generalized abhorrence of the ocean which approaches a phobia.

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Tagging: @curufinwefeanaro @cllgood @ppoolio @wildmoored idk man everyone?

Seven (Headcanon) Things about Thranduil

elf-and-iron:

This was going to be ten things, but I think it’s quite long enough. (All my attempts to do a Read More are failing. Sorry!)

1. His motivations are often murky – even to himself. Still a wild creature at heart, he has wrapped that core of instinct and feral emotion in so many layers of careful structure that it rarely shows. This can mean ruthlessness, as a wildcat defending itself – it can also mean vulnerability, as even he isn’t sure where some of his weaknesses are.

2. He’s been burned often enough to be wary of almost everyone. Elven memory does not fade, and Thranduil has seen enough betrayal and decline in his long life to fear change in its entirety.

3. He’s lived all over the place. A young elf in Lindon, he went with his family and the friends who accompanied them over the Blue Mountains and the Grey. That trip was not a fast one, nor one with a particular destination in mind. Oropher’s negotiations with the Nandorin Elves in the Greenwood led to – he thought – a temporary residence on Amon Lanc. One thing led to another, and when they led to Oropher being accepted as king, it became apparent that Amon Lanc would be a permanent abode. He lived there until well after Oropher’s death and fought hard to defend it, sacrificing nearly more than he could afford in attempt to keep his home. After Sauron overran the hilltop, razed the existing structures and built the keep of Dol Guldur, Thranduil moved his Court to a cave system the Silvan elves had long inhabited and set about fortifications.

4. Over his long life, he has pursued a few arts and more than a few studies. The ones that he has returned to, time and again, are the crafting of jewelry, and the growing of trees into specific and useful shapes. He has a magpie fondness for bright and gleaming things.

5. As a young Elf, he was more wild than patient, more
often found exploring than studying. Unlike most of his peers, he did not feel a strong bond to a single place until much later in his life, and his desire to roam was strong. Oropher did his best to impose a
sense of duty on the young Thranduil. It did not sink fully in until
after the Battle of Dagorlad. Perhaps he overcorrected, taking on the
mantle of the Elvenking and the leadership of the Silvan elves; in any
case, it was duty, both to his subjects and his son, that kept him
focused on the here and now once his wife was no more.

6. His relationships with his family have been good. He looked up tremendously to his father, the first King in the Greenwood, although they had occasional conflicts over Thranduil’s impatience and unwillingness to tie himself to a particular role or place. He loves his wife* with an undying passion, matched only by his grief after her death**. He is somewhat protective toward Legolas as a result. Understanding better than most that a young Elf needs to make his own path, he attempts not to overreach into his son’s life.

7. He’s older than most of the trees in the Greenwood. This is an occasional source of amazement to him. To fight the encroaching sorrow typical of older elves, he intentionally cultivates a sense of wonder in the natural world and crafted things of beauty. That takes significant effort, and it’s generally the first thing to fail him under stress. His initial reactions are often born of slow, ancient grief, and he works hard to not let it become his driving passion.

*who needs a name in a bad way. She isn’t given one in canon. I’ll eventually find one I like and put it here.

**She also needs a reason of death.

ooh! Friend i like these headcanons and your prose very much. :))