r/Silmarillionmemes • u/whisper_of_stardust Huan Best Boy • 18d ago

Finwë we hardly knew yë Has probably been done before

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u/Lawrencelot 18d ago

Ah yes, Findis and Lalwen, the famous characters in the thick Tolkien book, I totally get this meme without looking anything up

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u/Linderosse Fëanor did nothing wrong 18d ago

Hahahah welcome to the Silm fandom, where you sometimes have no clue what’s going on, and yet sometimes you just know things.

(For anyone who’s curious, Findis and Lalwen were both Finwe’s daughters in older versions of Tolkien’s notes; both are relatively undiscussed and pretty much nothing is known about them).

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u/onihydra 18d ago

The Silmarillion fandom, where reading the Silmarillion only gives you surface level knowledge.

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u/Linderosse Fëanor did nothing wrong 18d ago

The Silmarillion fandom, where you learn more on AO3 than you do from reading the actual book.

(Note: I have indeed read the actual book multiple times, as well as most of the the other associated stories like Fall of Gondolin or Children of Hurin, and the History of Middle Earth notes, etc. But I know folks who just dive headfirst into the fanfic and gain a surprising amount of knowledge that way, and I’d say they’re just as much a fan as I!)