"Maglor Indepbted" is actually almost done, there's just a few things left to add and a final edit and then it will be ready to post! I'm actually lowkey nervous as hell because I've never written Maglor for something so long (the entire thing is written form his POV)

Hope you have a good day too!

Here are my thoughts on Elves re-growing their teeth that nobody asked for:

Since Elves can live for literally ever if they're careful enough, I think it's super unlikely that one single set of teeth would be able to make it through all of the ages without even getting knocked out, rotting, or getting eroded overtime until they are flat to the gum. Unless of course Eru made them with invincible teeth (more invisible than any other part of the elves.) 

Personally, I think that it's most likely and the most PRACTICAL that Elves do the same thing as Crocodiles do where their teeth hollow out as they age so that a new tooth can grow into the space and eventually force the old tooth to fall out. Revealing a mostly fully grown tooth underneath. 

I think the FUNNIEST would be if it was like rodents and one single set of teeth slowly grows for eternity, so that if they don’t eat enough or wear them down their teeth get significantly longer than is ‘normal.’ Imagine the weird fashion trends the elves could come up with by purposefully growing out specific teeth.  

However, I think it would be the SCARIEST if it was the same as Sharks where they grow new teeth behind the old ones, and slowly force the older one’s forward until they become loose enough to fall out of their mouths. Could you imagine if elves had 2 - 3 sets of teeth at any given time in their mouths. Fucking terrifying.

Alright, I'm going to give you the extreme benefit of the doubt that you either know nothing about the Healthcare System and all of the extremally varied roles that make up that system OR that you live in a country that's Healthcare System is dramatically different than it is in my country. Which is Canada.

Working in a healthcare field does not automatically mean you have work in scrubs and only scrubs. Are there tons of job where its mandatory to wear them? Yeah, there is. But there's also tons of jobs where you don't have to wear them. For Example: Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Pathologist, Recreation Therapy, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Play Therapist, Case Workers, Outreach Workers, Grief Counselors, Addictions Councilors, Unit Clerk. I could go no, but I won't. Its also relatively common for places such as where I work try to avoid using scrubs as much as possible. I work in an Adult Supportive Living Unit and so the people live there, its their home and I want it to feel like a home. So we do our best to make things feel as non-clinical as possible. This is the case with LOTS of places, such as (adult or teen) Group Homes, Rehabilitation Centers, Adult Day Programs, Homecare Services, Outreach Programs.

In Conclusion: I'm not trying to take anything from anybody. The Healthcare Field is huge and incredibly varied. Have a nice day.

I'm not sure if you've asked this yet either, but Tumblr doesn't always like to give me my asks in a timely fashion nor give them to me in order received so we'll probably never know haha (Just so there isn't any confusion: Amon Lanc was the original name for Dol Guldur when it was still owned by the elves. After it had fallen into darkness, it was renamed ‘Dol Guldur’ which means “Hill of Sorcery”.) 

I think that Mereneth was already living in what became Oropher’s capital city of Amon Lanc before Thrandul and Oropher even got there. In my head, before Oropher and the other Sindar arrived the Silvan elves lived in a wwhhooolleee whack load of different villages of varying sizes spread throughout the entirety of the forest. The largest village was either on the hill that Amon Lanc came to be built upon or very very close to it, which is why it became the capital since it essentially already was. Mereneth had been born in the village and thus was living there when Oropher and the rest of the Sindar arrived. 

So yes, Mereneth would have been at Amon Lanc when Thranduil and Ferdan got burned by the fire but I don't think that she would have been a part of their exploration party and thus not at the campsite when it got attacked. The boys got burned quite soon after Oropher had been crowned King, so Mereneth probably knew OF Thranduil, but had not yet met him personally. 

Do you think instead of "Duck, Duck, Goose" That elves play "Elf, Elf, Orc" instead?

It's like 11:30 and I work early tomorrow but we just had a solar storm and we're supposed to get northern lights so naturally I'm about to drive to a country road in the middle of nowhere and I hope for the best

"You don't know what you don't know, but Eru help you, you're going to learn today."

---- An Ancient Silvan Proverb (almost always used as a threat. Unclear if it originated that way.)

There is a specific reason they were fighting ALL OF THE TIME! They were fighting about at what age they should let the Legolas, Farlen, Avaleina, and to a certain extent Eloissa and Tern join Greenwoods Military. They had so many arguments since the elfling's coming of Age Ceremonies were all fast approaching and everybody knew the second they were considered an 'adult' by elvish standards that they'd all want to join the fight for their people and their home.

Thranduil would let them join younger than Ferdan wanted because Thranduil thinks that if they DONT let them join (close) to when they want to, they will channel their energy, skills, and determination to do something to help into less constructive channels. He thinks that if they let them join the military, they'll be able to keep them in the lower ranks and close to home until they're older.

Ferdan's almost positive that if they let the elflings join when they want to, it wont matter WHAT Thranduil and Ferdan want, they wont give them a choice to do anything but move them higher up in the ranks. Maybe at first they could stop it, but not for long. They're too good. They could have already graduated from their training years ago but weren't simply due to their ages. He wants them to join later, when they're older, so that they can be 'kids' longer. He thinks the second they join the miliary they'll be gone. That they'll do everything and anything possible so be anything and everything that the world needs them to be, with little (if any) thought about what they need from themselves.

In hindsight, Ferdan was right.

(For those who haven't read the fic or that chapter, this is where this line of text comes from, for context.)

"A child who lost everything sat on the doorstep of a house that is no longer there. Surrounded by the skeletal remains of the buildings and trees that had once been the lifeforce of her small remote village. 

Warmth still glowed from the forest around her, even if there were no longer any flames. Those had died out hours earlier. Before the night had come to render the waterhole her Uncle had stashed her in even colder than before, but she didn’t care to climb out while the heat from the fires still touched her face. 

Getting herself out had been difficult, normally the trees would have sent their roots to help her, but there were no trees left alive to help. She had known even then that she was the last of her village to survive, so there was no point in calling for help. "

But you're right! This is why she doesn't like water in general but especially hates swimming. Baths are better because at least they're warm and she knows she can get out whenever she wants to. But they're still not her FAVORITE thing in the world, she'll often get people to come and keep her company while she bathes so that she isn't alone with her flashbacks thoughts for too long.

I love that you noticed that!! Thanks for reaching out!

There's more than this but for whatever reason these are the ones that Live In My Own Brain 24/7

These are from: "Throne" #23 on the 'Snippets of Life' fic in AO3

"Thranduil, shockingly, had always seemed to like Radagast. Which, logically, went against almost every single thing he knew about Thranduil. "

"But then, Thranduil did not need a throne to be powerful; a throne is merely a chair if you care little for what it offers you."

This is the opening line in "Dragon Fire" also on AO3

"He wasn't sure if Eru had created Chaos or if it had created itself, but regardless, he was certain that it had descended to the ground to walk among them the exact same moment the dragon's screech had split the air."