Elrond My Beloved - Tumblr Posts

I'd like to compliment you on your lovely art! 😊

What would a fellow Tumblr user and Tolkien fan have to do to twist your arm into getting you to draw Elrond wearing rubber gloves? You know, because of him being a master healer and all his medical knowledge and whatever. Idk, I just had this mental image of Elrond wearing plastic gloves like modern healthcare professionals and whatnot, and I was like, Aaahh if only I could art!! 😂

Since you asked so nicely, here is Dr. Elrond :b

I have this hc that Sauron’s obsession with vanity led him to spend years studying Maedhros’ features and trying to emulate them. When he couldn’t get it right, the proportions always a little off, red hair never deep enough, he took his anger out on Mae and when that option was gone, tried to pull from others also renown for their beauty instead.

Fast forward a few centuries and turns out all that work wasn’t entirely useless. And Sauron knows exactly what to do with the features he was able to recreate. Weaving them into his new face, the line of Maitimo’s smile, the set of his eyebrows, the crease of his eyes, he puts just enough to be familiar, but not enough to set off any alarms.

Celebrimbor doesn’t know *why* he trusts Annatar so easily, just that he’s got a good feeling about him. The Maia reminds him of someone he can’t quite put a finger on, but it’s a good association and he doesn’t think on it too deeply. Grows to call him a brother in all but blood.

Of course we all know how that ends. And the last thing Celebrimbor sees is his eldest Uncle’s smile, a mockery of the warmth it should hold as Sauron finally ends his torture.

(Elrond, on the other hand, never saw Maitimo who used to laugh easily and play silly games with children. Only grim Maedhros. The gentle features Sauron steals are alien to him. A stranger with too many familiar features he can’t quite place, twisted the wrong way, leaving him deeply unsettled. It’s why he immediately tells Gil Galad to send Annatar away, hiding trembling hands in his sleeves.)

Elrond in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER SEASON 2

Elrond's curls reblog if you agree

Durin will come

The Rings of Power 2.07. Doomed to Die.