manymanytimesbefore replied to your post:In the limited Silmarillion-ASoIaF fusion I am…
hey i wrote something like this once! but it was super fluffy – arafinwe and all that 😉 i meant to have her marry a grandson? of Finrod but never went around to finish it

oh wait no, i see what you’re doing! it’s different, then 🙂 sounds cool

😀 Sounds adorably fluffy. 

I’ve done partial rundowns of this fusion, but might as well retype and flesh it out. It all started when I decided in the process of naming some unnamed companions to borrow Robb Stark. So a short history of the expanding fusion (and trying to pin down which names to use – help me pick the best choice!):

Herenvarno ‘Varno’ (Eddard ‘Ned’ Stark) is the middle child of one of the early supporters of Finwë, overshadowed by his wild, dashing brother (Brandon) and sister (Lyanna). Unfortunately somehow before the Noldor make it to Valinor, he looses his older brother and parents (Rickard as Alon/Alwion/Veryalon/Veron) to tragic accidents/wandering off/Melkor’s shenanigans. Varno arrives in Valinor a quiet young man that loves and feels loyalty towards his king Finwë (who is black-haired and blue-eyed and broadly muscled and the longer is king the worse a grip he shows to have on ruling – especially controlling and curtailing his eldest son. The parallel writes itself.) But Varno can’t stand Tirion, so he retreats north and builds a stone manor to the north of where Formenos will be. This is Mindohesin/Mindohrivë (Winterfell), with greenhouses and hot springs powering indoor heating, and Varno rarely leaves his home (except once to Alqualondë to greet the newly arrived Teleri, and for Finwë’s weddings and big family events or feasts). His sister runs wild through Valinor, galloping with Oromë’s riders, never settling down – or at least admitting to- and basically like a more uninhibited Aredhel. (Benjen), the youngest brother, may or may not exist. 

Now Mahtan and his wife Istarnië, our famously auburn-haired Noldor, have one daughter Nerdanel who marries Fëanor and has all those sons. But Nerdanel has at least one sibling; tentatively I’m going with an older brother or sister, who takes over the role as our Hoster Tully. Said sibling of Nerdanel has three children with the same brown with reddish highlights hair: Venéa/Vendea (Catelyn), Lissë (Lysa), and Enedir (Edmure). Enedir (Edmure) goes to Alqualondë and Tirion for work, while he’s not as impressive a smith as his grandfather or other famous relatives, and spends a lot of time on the hypothetical river that feeds into Swan Harbor, where he ends up marrying a business partner, (Roslin Frey) who is of mixed Noldor/Teleri descent. They have at least one son, Edrahil, who thanks to family ties between Alqualondë and Tirion end up becoming very closely tied to Arafinwë and Eärwen’s family. Edrahil grows up knowing Prince Finrod and his younger brothers, and when the rebellion happens he follows and sticks close to Finrod. Lissë felt overshadowed by her prettier older sister, and she wasn’t the baby of the family or a son. She decides to go to Valmar (jettisoning Littlefinger from this universe, goodbye and good riddance!) where she’s stand out. Eventually she marries a charming Vanyar lady who finds Lissë delightful, and they live high up in the Pelóri Mountains near Manwë’s eagles. Lissë craves children, so after many years they petition the Valar. What happens is Mandos has some féa of very young elves who died in Cuiviénen, too young to remember who they are or who don’t have family to reunite with because their parents stayed. So Lissë and her wife are one of the adopting couples who raise a reembodied elf as their own flesh and blood. Here is (Sweetrobin) who is very young when the Flight of the Noldor happens, grows up sheltered and protected by his moms, and when the WoW comes he is pompous Percy Weasley-like elf leading a company of Vanyar scouts. In other words the platoon that adopts Bledda and his daughter Bortë.

However the dutiful Venéa/Vendea (nicknamed Vénie?) is who we are most interested in. She marries the seemingly dour noble Varno and moves up to his isolated northern home. Varno loves his wife (and her bright red hair) and doesn’t mind that her aunt is the wife of the Noldor Crown Prince and thus nominally linking him to the political squabbling of princes (Melkor is a few years away from being released or was just released). Soon they have their first son, a blue-eyed and auburn-haired boy named Alcar (Robb). However the same time their son is born, Varno’s wild sister drops by unexpectedly, carrying an infant she introduces as her son, born while hanging out in the snow mountains around Oiolossë/Taniquetal, but as she decided she really didn’t want to raise the kid (no mention at all of the father) and since Vénie just had one and is far more maternal, the responsible brother and sister-in-law can do a much better job with the kid and provide a stable environment. (No bastardy and no deaths in Aman). Left with this awkward situation, Varno and Vénie raise their nephew Failossion (Jon Snow), named for this “generous” snow-born gift, as Alcar’s sort-of twin. 

Alcar and Lossion are swiftly joined by two sisters, Aistë/Airien/Amanë/Amaniel/Amandis (Sansa) and Áre (Arya), and a brother Mornaiwë/Mornaio/Mornaion (Bran). Ugh, so I can’t pick names for the younger Starks. Áre admires the daughter of Prince Nolonfinwë and her own aunt – which worries her mother, while her older sister who inherited the reddish hair of the maternal side instead of Noldor black hair and grey eyes likes pretty things and fine songs and dancing and music and needlepoint and wants most of all to live at court in Tirion or Valmar. Poor (Sansa) is naively unaware of the growing high tensions of the Noldor royalty. 

Things start to get ugly when Nerdanel leaves her husband to return to Mahtan and later Queen Indis, drawing a sharp divide between the favored and powerful King’s heir and Nerdanel’s family. Varno is loyal to King Finwë, but also his wife’s family. Then the drawing of the sword and the banishment, and suddenly Varno has his King and Temporarily Disinheired Heir building a permanent fortress just next door. Varno is caught between who to side with, as Finwë is his king (Robert Baratheon, with all the old friends and disillusionment this entails) but holds himself ‘uncrowned’ and Varno is a noble guy that follows the rule or law, so he sees Fingolfin as the Acting King of the Noldor. Plus his nephew Failossion has gone to work for Fingolfin (who is sort of Stannis in this). Morna (Bran), by the way, gets into shoving matches with Fëanor’s younger sons.  Áre likes hunting with them. (Sansa) has just entered a betrothal with the very comely and golden-haired son of some Vanyar nobles, thinking her dreams have come true. 

The other family living near the royal hunting lodge that becomes the site for Formenos are the long-time rivals of Varno’s family. They are hardcore Fëanorian partisans, disdainful of Fingolfin and Indis’s children, the Valar, etc… Caranthir marries their daughter. (Boltons…) 

One day Oromë gives the ‘Stark’ clan a litter of hound puppies, the same hyper-intelligent giant dogs that Huan is. Everyone gets their direwolf (Grey Wind, Arquen Lady, Nymeria, Lairë Summer, Shaggydog) including the recently conceived Verion/Veron (Rickon). 

Darkening of Valinor means everything goes to crap. Varno doesn’t fully support rebelling against the Valar (his wife Vénie and her family are firmly Aulendil and refuse to follow Fëanor), but he feels he owes his dead king Finwë. So Varno goes with the Noldor, and all of his children but (Sansa) betrothed in Valmar and Vénie with her family and the infant Verion/Veron. Failossion is again firmly with Fingolfin, Uncle Edrahil with Finarfin, and Varno is the lone voice of sanity and caution in Fëanor’s camp, increasingly mistrusted as a traitor because of his split alliances and doubting his king. (For the paranoid Fëanor, it’s obvious starting with his father and going down to anyone else he deals with, that those with divided loyalties towards him equals someone who is disloyal to him). Prior to the assault and theft of the Swan-ships, Varno speaks against it. After the Kin-slaying, he is found dead. The mistrust and bad blood boils over, and Alcar, now leader of his father’s forces, along with his younger brother, officially joins Uncle Edrahil and pledges allegiance to Finrod, angry at Fëanorians especially when forced to march across the Helcaraxë. Áre might board the ships, but more likely she goes to her favorite big brother Failossion.

None of the Hounds go into rebellion, choosing to stay in Valinor. (Sansa) cares for most of the pack, especially after she dumps her golden-haired prat of an ex-fiancee (Joffery) who stated her dad deserved his fate as rebel. She (and her mom and youngest sibling too, probably) go to Aunt Lissë’s secluded mountain home.

In Beleriand, Alcar is one of the nobles in Nargothrond. Failossion freezes up in Hithlum as one of the braver soldiers willing to scout Angband’s frozen wastes, playing Watcher on the Wall Leaguer. Morna is slightly creepy but nice guy with Angrod and Aegnor up in Dorthonion who has strong mental sight. Áre is on adventures who knows where. (Maybe she goes with Galadriel over the mountains?) While in Nargothrond, Alcar befriends the youngest son of a recalcitrant Falathrim lord who was sent to the Nargothrond as a foster-ward to improve trust and good feelings between Círdan and Finrod’s people. This boy of smirking bravado hiding homesickness and fear is named Faron Mithmeren (Theon Greyjoy), and the two become best friends.

Dagor Bragollath happens – Alcar believes his brothers Failossion and Morna die in the fires (only half right). he’s among Finrod’s companions trying to make it up their in time and who are rescued by Barahir in the Fens of Serech. Alcar is grief-stricken and physically injured, and is healed and comforted back in Nargothrond by one of the new arrivals. Faelineth (Jeyne Westerling) is a Sindarin girl of pretty but not overwhelming beauty, with brown eyes and curly brown hair and an Avari grandmother – and she’s one of the refugees from Himlad that came with Celegorm and Curufin, so with have our opposite sides problem. Still, she comforts Alcar, and the two marry. However they hold off attempting for any children because of the war. When Finrod honors his Oath to Beren, Alcar is one of the ten volunteers, along with his uncle, Edrahil, and Faelineth’s brother Than- (Raynald Westerling), and thus dies in the dungeons of Tol Sirion eaten by a werewolf. 

Those that die are reborn and/or reunited with family.

Faelindis (Jeyne Poole) is the daughter of the steward of Tol Sirion under Orodreth, childhood companion of Princess Finduilas Faelivrin, and escapes with the princess two years after the Bragollach to Nargothrond. Faron regrets he wasn’t there to die with Alcar and his king, thus when Gwindor joins for what becomes the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Faron goes with him- and gets captured. Or captured earlier or just after. He’s a prisoner in Angband for a few years before Nargothrond is sacked, loosing his identity and tending the wargs under the cruel orcs (Ramsay). After Nargothrond falls, and Finduilas is killed, Faelindis is brought to Angband and to spare her the worst or be immediately slain, Faron facilitates the falsehood of Faelindis as Faelivrin. Together the two escape Angband when it crumbles during the final days of the WoW, leaping to safety. Together they board a ship captained by Faron’s older sister (Asha) to Tol Eressëa, heal, have a life together, visited frequently by Alcar and his family (wife, sisters, parents).

Everything is made better.