juvelone:

squirrelwrangler:

juvelone:

squirrelwrangler:

*blushing because someone is too sweet*

Also have in common are both homebodies reluctant to leave safe and familiar places, and a strong filial piety.

Also, Finrod is the best choice if one must date a Noldor elf.

😉

Ah! So what do you head-canon Amarië as far as her personal creative expressions?

Also, Finrod is the best choice if one must date a Noldor elf.

Indeed! 🙂

I headcanon Amarië being gifted in embroidery. She makes very beautiful designs and has a special eye for using the most gorgeous color combinations, some that other elves may not consider at first. The products she creates are things that can be used at home: table clothes and curtains and rugs and so on. She is usually consulted on home decor, especially on which colors or objects would go best for this or that home. 🙂

Home decorator Amarië! I love it, and want to adopt it!

Oo, the Vanyar have more words for colors than other elven dialects (based off Valarin), so it totally makes sense for Amarië to have a heightened sense of colors.

Ah~ imagining her redecorating Finrod’s apartments (and all the other re-embodied elves returning to Tirion), helping them rework their surroundings as this form of therapy to help them redefine their personal spaces, incorporate new elements of design from Beleriand be it based on the different flora/fauna or new light -or oh, she would definitely get Finrod to help her understand the basics of dwarven aesthetics and set up a trade connection back to Middle-earth and Khazad-dûm to import dwarven textiles and metalwork, etc… I can see her asking Finrod to proofread her runes in her letters to them so she’s using the correct polite address and what’s considered appropriate trades and what motifs/patterns are okay for outsiders to use…

Especially where I head-canon Valinor during the beginning of the Second Age as starting to shift from a “vaguely Tudor” look to “Regency/1790-1830” look, now I’m picturing those moments in Austen’s novels where they talk about designing and decorating rooms, “paint tables, cover skreens and net purses” – Amarië exemplifies very accomplished 😉

And I like the idea of an embroiderer that isn’t focused on clothing or just tapestries, for function objects. Which ties into my idea that the Vanyar love bright colors for their surroundings, for their houses and gardens and some parts of their furnishings, whereas the Noldor are more focused on colors and gems for their personal selves, clothing and jewelry. (Somewhere I will re-find that quote on the Vanyar wearing only white clothing, because it haunts and vexes me)

Yes! I would love to see this headcanon adopted! 🙂 May I borrow some of these headcanon as well? I love thinking of dwarven and Vanyarin designs fusing into something beautiful for Khazad-dûm.

Aw, thank you! 

Oh I hadn’t even thought of the cultural exchange both ways – but duh, Khazad-dûm was still expanding and changing well into the Third Age and just because it’s the cultural heart of the dwarves doesn’t exclude other design origins. (Ugh, between Khazad-dûm and Menegroth, and Númenor, so many lost homelands, this is probably why I just cannot head-canon Cuiviénen as surviving and Avari still living there. Eden is barred and all that.)  And to be honest, I try to rein myself in because I love the Vanyar a lot, and I have this bad habit of wanting to combine these cultures and people I love – I have more Vanyar/Falmari marriages and team-ups than canon likely allows, and via my OC for Elros’s wife, Númenor at least the early years is heavily influenced by Bór and Vanyar culture (hey, there has to be a better reason for all that Quenya).

Oh, but if there’s a big Edain craze in Valinor during the Second Age, then there totally has to be interest among the Amanyar elves, especially the Noldor that stayed, towards the Dwarves, considering a great majority would have been Aulendil like Mahtan. So there would be this desire among the smiths and devotees of Aulë to appreciate and see the works of Aulë’s Children, and I can imagine everyone there being very jealous of Celebrimbor.

But now all I can think is of Nargothrond, of how Finrod was inspired by Menegroth to design his city but with his own spin, like expand the types of trees the columns are based on, and how he was aided by the dwarves of the Blue Mountains so the city was probably this synchronization of Noldor/Dwarven/Sindar architecture. So now this renovation team of Finrod and Amarië, spending their post-Silmarillion time restoring and reworking all the vacant houses in Tirion and the new settlements in Valinor and Tol Eressëa. And it would be sometime they are both very passionate about and also helps them come back together as a couple.