QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION
QUESTION: You mentioned in a previous ask that you had a story arc planned for Lileyn during the LOTR. Do you have one planned for Lothrin as well, and if so what is it? Adore your OCs!
ANSWER: Lothrin is by far the most developed character I have. Not only I have outlined her storyline during LOTR but almost throughout all of her life (which was quite tricky considering that she lived for roughly 5000+ years).
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Lothrin’s character arc is determined by two major themes:
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the diminishment of the nandor culture and its replacement with the sindar and noldor one
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the different dynamics concerning the eldar and the race of men
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She starts out as a care-free nandor maid, unknowing of the world outside of Lindorinand. Her only duties were to patrol the borders and to sustain trade relations between Lindorinand and Khazad-dum together with her father. The destruction of Eregion forced her to immigrate north, where she alongside other Noldor built Imladris. She relocates out of safety concerns to Lindon, where she stays until the end of the Second Age.
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She marches with Gil-Galad’s troops towards Mordor, but then deserts his ranks and joins her brothers in Amdir’s army. The war proves disastrous, she loses her elder brother and Astoeth, her closest friend loses her betrothed. Both end wounded mentally and psychically, so they retreat together with the survivors back north, where Lothrin discovers the newly built Annuminas.
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The love the eldar bear for the earth and sky and water is legendary. It comes as no surprise that she falls in love with Lake Nenuial and decides not to return home. Her parents were burdened already enough with the death of one of their children. Evendim allows her to heal. Having a purpose, pledging her sword to the Arnorian kingdom gives her the distraction needed to move her mind from the horrors of Mordor. Year after year passes, decade after decade and before she knows Arnor splits into Arthedain, Rhudaur and Cardolan and she is left alone in a deserted city.
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The court of Fornost deludes her, the Arthedain men seem proud, too sure of their force, so she decides to leave, begin a journey of learning. She travels back to Lindon, to Imladris and to Mirkwod, home in Lothlorien and south to Edhellond, east and south to her Avari kindred, journeys of which she will speak little, for what right do other men or the Noldor have to hear of the life her closest kindred built in the absence of the guidance of the Valar?
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Her mother is furious regarding Galadriel’s rule and Lothrin is left with mixed feelings of bitterness and acceptance towards it. Lothlorien was no longer her home, Nandorin was barely heard anymore, the garments of the Nandor and their markings were not worn and strange tales of Valinor began to be heard. She could not blame the Nandor that fled to the forests of the east and south, to their Avari kindred.
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She returns north once again, only to arrive at a mark of a few years before the Battle of Fornost. Terrible battle that one. Lives of men and elves and hobbits lost to the darkness of Angmar. The first chieftain of the newly formed dunedain asks her to stay, share what knowledge she has, help the people she has once helped. And she stays. She becomes Uialwen, the lady of Twilight.
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Together with the children of Elrond, and several elves from Lindon and Imladris she fights by the side of the dunedain against Angmar. She teaches their children how to wield a weapon, how to track and the history of their ancestors. She patrols the borders of the Shire like any ranger and tells tales and shares food and laughter deep in the night at a campfire. It is not an easy life, but it does help that many elves other than her, choose to stay and fight.
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By the end of LOTR she is tired, both in body and mind. She fought enough battles. She has seen her human friends die of old age or in battle over and over again. She cannot endure anymore. She travels south as part of the Grey Company and fights at Pelennor. But she is so tired and for the first time, the bliss of Valinor calls to her, yet she does not sail. Instead she remains in Middle-earth in the colony of Eryn Lasgalen and many ages later she fades. In the end she is reembodied in Valinor.