YES

So the first thing I will say- the art is gorgeous. Mostly black and white outside the cove, but really evocative

So here are Galadriel and Celeborn:

And Elrond and Cirdan

Elves of Rivendell

something tells me this gentleman needs no introduction

There's a lot of interesting world-building around Lindon, which incidentally looks nothing like RoP's take on it. Pretty urban, except for the whole population in serious decline but

*bit

And there is a lot more Feanorian material than I was expecting- in the sense that I wasn't expecting any, to be fair but there are actual blood descendents of the mad artist in chief as NPCs

that looks like Alan Lee's work!

I'm assuming most of the artists are Italian, but yeah. Definitely similar vibes

So, meet Naedind and Noredhel, daughter and granddaughter of the House of Fëanor. Noredhel has shit taste in men and may end up in a coup against her mother

nice nice nice

lol that sounds VERY Feanarian of her

If I had to run this as a game, I'd be tempted to make them Maglor's family, if only to give a party the option of kidnapping a sad beach hobo to go yell some sense into a grandkid he never met. But this is giving my insane reverse Curvo and Tyelpe vibes.

On the other hand, this coup is anti-dwarf. Which I imagine would make Grandad, whoever he is, very sad.

Also the hereditary family sword Naedind won't let anyone use is called "Hairsplitter," which feels very intimately kinslayerish considering the family naming conventions

pft

so apparently the arts that made it to Rivendell from Eregion included the making of high quality booze. Completely reasonable

For a second I thought you were providing me with a totes legal pdf. Not sure what that says about me.

Alas. I do not have a PDF.

Hairsplitter is a perfect Feanorian sword name given that splitting hairs in the sense of small and unnecessary distinctions is Feanor’s primary MO

I feel like they phoned in the 'how to name a character' section, don't you?

rhapsodyrumor: certainly it works better than- oh what were the names they gave the Feanorian swords in MERP, something like "lament of the silmarils?"

Seems a little on the nose. If I ran this as a game, I would absolutely bestow relevant curses or fates if someone chose these names. Choose wisely.

who on eru's green earth would name their kid maeglin

One who has not researched

and the Lorien names

Or honestly, Mablung. That just sounds dumb

galdor's probably fine. 'galdor' shows up with two characters, which practically makes it the john of middle earth

Feel very confident that no one in Lorien is naming anyone Amras

that would be my gut instinct too

honestly i might be nervous about findulias, given who the boss there is

Maybe their archery practice dummy

For Amras I mean ...

did assume

Nervous laugh

Yep. "Fury of the Silmarils" for Maedhros and "Lament of the Silmarils" for Maglor. MERP wins for hilarious absurdity, but even if they can't teach you to name a character TOR has a better grasp on tone

Ok, so this is interesting. So Lindon is divided into Forlindon (north of the Gulf of Lune) and Harlindon (south of the same)

So the book has Feanorian survivors (presumably not the ones with Celebrimbor in Eregion) settle in northern Forlindon- which makes sense once you think about it, Himring's just there off the coast

Southern Forlindon is settled by "Elves from western Beleriand, a mix of Exiles and Grey Elves, once followers of Feanor's first brother"

I mean wow, Fingolfin isn't even getting named.

wow that's rude

Of course, then they move on to the Finarfinians, which gets better- " Here [Northern Harlindon], those who followed the House of Feanor's second brother, Finarfin, found their homes."

it's mostly really bad phrasing? but my dudes, come on

So this is Arallond/Goncair/Haelond, Gil-galad's capital. Currently rather run down

did Gil run out of budget?

he's been dead for three thousand years, that doesn't help when you're trying to collect taxes

lol fair

I'm getting a very Gondolin vibe out of the descriptions. Less gates, admittedly.