because I stumbled on some old Middle Earth Roleplaying scans from that era and I'm finding them kind of amusing

So for your favorite lad:

what's really funny about these things is just how many hair and eye colors they get wrong, although i suppose these must have been published before HOME came out so they couldn't have known about the redheads

And his brother:

caranthir gets a firebolt sword, which means everyone is in terrible danger

he is very pleased by this

everyone else is horrified

This one is actually kind of endearing

....oh no that's cute!!! headcanon accepted

caster may immolate at will pft

so remember when i said they get all the hair colors wrong?

speaking of which:

my boy, my boy, they do you so wrong

kckgks

it's fine that they didn't make up a sword name for him, though, i maintain he goes through five or six a century and doesn't get sentimental

but the hair. the hair.

fingolfin is also blond, for the record

Yeah, unsurpassed wisdom. Sure

i really don't know why half the feanorians seem to be blond, but i find imagining feanor's reaction if he found out about that depiction much funnier than it ought to be

XD XD same

i am also amused by the idea of maedhros having some peter-pettigrew style magic murder hand

wheeze dwarven magic?

his good friend azhagal made it for him

curufin is pissed that mae likes theirs better

mae insists its for diplomatic relations and not because he doesn't need a cannon in his hand thank you curvo

he doesn't, but if they actually get on that subject curvo will only shut up about the idea halfway through dagor dagorath

'tried to establish her son's claim to the throne of gondolin' i am genuinely fascinated by the interpretations the writers came up with on this rp

well. I mean I can see some of that for Aredhel XD

but yeah XD

that reminds me of the version of Gil-Galad son of plothole which postulates that Gil is... Maeglin

some of it. but we all know who was the ambitious one born that year

looooooooooooooooooooooool

yeah. why not maeg-galad, we have basically everything else

XD

Well, ok, 'Star-woman,' might as well run with the motif

And Finrod gets a lightning sword. Why not, I guess

loooooooool

Honestly I don't know why Turgon needs two named magic swords. Or why he's named a bard when Fingon, the one we know can play an instrument, isn't

plz to not give him more things to hide in his Very Secret Hideout

But he also gets a magic cloak which allows him to fly, and I have to say, this is rad. I want a magic cloak that lets me fly and if i were a magic elf monarch i'd have one on general principle

lol but again, why give that to Mr Risk Averse

didn't you hear? he's mister far-sighted. that's what happens when you have a great pr team

XD

and people with great pr teams get lots of shiny toys. i am reliably informed that's how an economy works

/stares at pengolodh

These sure are some Takes

what ... is happening here?

/stares at 'not known for his wisdom'

ouch

bitweaver: To be fair, who is in this story. (Well, apparently Finwe. Not entirely sure why, given his track record, but the rp writers can do what they want in their own universe)

detectivefiction: it is interesting to see how interpretations changed between then and now.

even in just the style of 'how should middle earth roleplaying look like.' 'the one ring' would never let any character get this swords-and-sorceryish

that were my thoughts exactly! it all read to me like let's take names from silmarillion and slap them on generic fantasy warriors

that's even more swords-and-sorceryish than MERP

i feel like the authors did do the reading, but then they got high and ingested copious amounts of conan the barbarian before attempting any writing

but i was entertained. i suppose that's the important part

I feel like I'd play this game, but it's not a great representation of Silm stuff.

Like I'm here for the S&S stuff but I don't... go... to Tolkien... for that....

I’m a little sad Finrod is also blonde. I was hoping with all the mislabeled blondes that maybe he’s suddenly have black hair

Alas for the Golden House of Finarfin, they now have brunettes

XD

Finrod “borrows” all of Fingon’s gold ribbons because clearly he doesn’t need them now with that golden hair

Hey, hey, either the jewelry collection is off-limits or he's stealing your stuff too

He’s not stealing, he’s borrowing, and you can borrow his if you like but you have to actually use it, not give it to Maedhros or something