Fingon Was A Highly Accomplished Painter In Valinor And His Works Were So Realistic People Often Tried

Fingon was a highly accomplished painter in Valinor and his works were so realistic people often tried to walk into his landscapes and talk to his portraits. His work could be seen all over Valinor as he was often asked to decorate public spaces, people’s homes, and the palaces of kings. This became a problem after Alqualonde when Finarfin decreed his work was not to be destroyed and later found out there was a naked Maedhros in every single one.

I’m thinking about starting to take commissions, is that something people would be interested in?

A melkor redesign  because I really don’t like how he originally looked.

Bonus terrible sketch!

Celebrian inherited her mother’s temper, her father’s unending patience, and a quite frankly worrying amount of loyalty that Galadriel suspects comes from Finwe because it most closely resembles the sons of Feanor.

If several of the noldor who had more...vocal opinions on Elrond’s heritage/capacity to rule/continued survival just happened to get assigned to more deadly patrols, or have inconvenient non-lethal accidents that stopped them from performing their duties, well. It’s not like Gil-Galad was going to stop her.

Caranthir!

Caranthir dislikes people. And animals. And plants that need to be watered more than once a month. And everything that isn’t embroidery or economics. And his temper is short enough that everybody knows it. He also has a habit of making ridiculously elaborate schemes to avoid people- his most famous involved a sack of flour, a bungee cord, and a bag of frozen peas. No-one was at all surprised when what he did in Beleriand came out.

(basically Caranthir is what would happen if Edmund Blackadder and the Queen of Hearts somehow had a child.)

So, do the Valar know the elves aren’t  just fleshy-Maiar?

(I’m tired so this might be ramble-y but oh well)

So, Pre-elves the Valar only really interact with Maiar, who basically do whatever they want and are kind of just fancy servants. The only times we actually see a Maia rebel- e.g. Mairon- it’s basically just a switch in who they listen too and not a bid for independence.

So has anyone except Melkor actually flat out told the Valar No?

Because if not that sort of explains how they have no idea how to deal with the elves.

Specifically the Noldor.

Because the Noldor, even though they are favoured by Aule, strive to create independently and without oversight from the Valar, and it’s with them the Valar screw up the most. Literally most of the problems in the first age would have been less catastrophic if the Valar had just let them leave. No first kinslaying because Olwe could just let the borrow the boats, no Helcaraxe, someone could have slapped Feanor upside the head before he got himself killed ect. But instead the Valar just...thought they’d be listened to when they told them to not go after the guy who murdered their dearly beloved king and stay put in Valinor forever, even when it’s implied Namo already knew Finwe is dead and should probably have told his son as soon as he found out but didn’t and the Valar immediately mourned the loss of the Silmarils rather than the elf who died in a place they promised would be safe.

And not knowing how elves work would kind of explain why they thought Feanor would be okay with Finwe remarrying. No Maiar had ever been unhappy with their decisions, so why would an elf be different?

It also explains the...weirder aspects of LaCE. Because some of LaCE reads like it was invented purely for population control (see sex as an act purely to create children), and that would make sense if it was put down by a race that just didn’t do sex as the ainur are implied to be. And everyone is expected to follow it and be happy, because no-one had ever told the Valar they weren’t.

Any way, idk. I’m probably reading too much into this, and this probably wasn’t articulated very well.

Tl:dr- The Valar got too used to dealing with people that do everything they tell them too and elves don’t like being told what to do Thank You Very Much