Curufin's Wife
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adepslanaeOne of the prompts I came up with for GenEx has made me think of Curufin's wife a lot again.
My 'standard' Mrs.Curufin is a Vanya with a Vanyarin father and a Ñoldorin mother. Appearance-wise she takes entirely after her mother, therefore she looks like your average Ñoldo. My fancast for her varies, but is always restricted to Indian/Pakistani women.
Her names are Héruminyë Áyamë. We don't actually know much about Vanyarin naming traditions, and all named Vanyar have only one name, but I headcanon that her mother did give her a name (note, however, that mother-names aren't obligatory among the Ñoldor either, according to LaCE). It took me ages to come up with these names - the names of OCs must have both a nice meaning and a nice ring to them. Héruminyë was based on Persian Shabana, which means, if I recall correctly, something like "first among the ladies" ("sha" being the word for king/ruler). Áyamë instead has the same sound of a Japanese name; áya means "awe" in Quenya, so the name as a whole means 'she who makes awe', and is a reference to her occupation.
She is a dancer, and got to know Maglor before she ever met Curufin. Maglor admired her and got along well with her, too, and since Maglor and Curufin have pretty similar personalities, in my opinion, once Curufin and Héruminyë were introduced they too hit it from the get-go.
I don't think they were ever 'in love' (Curufin is too in love with his dad for that), but they worked well together, and figured getting married wouldn't hurt them. Curufin was very attentive to dynastic matters, and Héruminyë was very ambitious. Arrogant too and with a penchant for nonconformity inherited from her parents.
Her father was something of a dissident among the Vanyar - not one who would actually ever rebel, but not particularly enamoured with the whole 'praise the Valar' lifestyle, either. He didn't follow his daughter to Middle-Earth, of course, but he and his wife didn't take part in the War of Wrath either, and make no mystery of the fact that they still do care deeply for their daughter and will continue to do so no matter what. One of her mother's sisters was a Yavannildë, i.e. one of the women tasked with growing the corn from which coimas/lembas was made, and was instrumental in taking it to Middle-Earth.
In one possible version of canon, she marries Curufin right after Fëanor makes the Silmarils (see Treasure). Celebrimbor is a quasi-adult by the Darkening (and very likely killed someone at Alqualondë).
She goes with her in-laws to Middle-Earth, and it's she who leads the mounted archers stationed at the Pass of Aglon, as in Indian Summar Sky. (A Celegorm/Curufin/Wife threesome at least is pretty much canonical to me).
She goes on to survive the First Age, and leads the few surviving Fëanorians to safety (she doesn't join Celebrimbor because once he renounces his father she's done with him; she wasn't a particularly motherly type to begin with).
In one verse, she sticks with Saeros's dad (Ithilbor) and they forge a BROTP for the ages. (Not sure if I'll ever post anything with this).
In another, she hooks up with Caranthir and Maglor's (political) wives and they live together forever and ever, as in Fortune, which also has the added perk of them finding Maglor and the Silmaril with him. (I really like this verse).
This is basically Curufin's Wife in nearly all of my fics where she makes an appearance: Through the Dark, The Dark, Treasure, Leech (in Three Drabbles), Teasing, Toying, Crotchety, Poacher, Indian Summer Sky, Fortune as well as the one mentioned in A man for the making. Technically, she's also the one in Way To Fall, but I could easily change that.
The other wife I came up with yesterday is the daughter of one of Fëanor's supporters (thus a Ñoldo) and Curufin and she marry in a classical arranged marriage.
This could very well be the wife in The Time of the Comet. She does have a different name there, for one. Lalith would have to be something like Lalaítë in Quenya (or more likely Lalítë, but this sounds weird to me because it clashes with a real word), and very likely a second name too.
As for why Curufin and not one of his older brothers, well, Maedhros is way too gay to marry a woman, Maglor way too uninterested (though he could have done it, in a pinch), Celegorm and Caranthir not the type for marriage, and nobody would ever have asked the twins, which leaves only Curufin, who would have gladly married a dragon if his father asked.
Of course, the specifics of this scenario are still very vague in my head (personality-wise both versions remain very similar, but their occupation should be different).
The one fic where I'm uncertain which wife we're talking about is She. I didn't give her a name on purpose there, but I guess it could be this second wife, after Celegorm finds out that Curufin likes her more than he expected he would.
My 'standard' Mrs.Curufin is a Vanya with a Vanyarin father and a Ñoldorin mother. Appearance-wise she takes entirely after her mother, therefore she looks like your average Ñoldo. My fancast for her varies, but is always restricted to Indian/Pakistani women.
Her names are Héruminyë Áyamë. We don't actually know much about Vanyarin naming traditions, and all named Vanyar have only one name, but I headcanon that her mother did give her a name (note, however, that mother-names aren't obligatory among the Ñoldor either, according to LaCE). It took me ages to come up with these names - the names of OCs must have both a nice meaning and a nice ring to them. Héruminyë was based on Persian Shabana, which means, if I recall correctly, something like "first among the ladies" ("sha" being the word for king/ruler). Áyamë instead has the same sound of a Japanese name; áya means "awe" in Quenya, so the name as a whole means 'she who makes awe', and is a reference to her occupation.
She is a dancer, and got to know Maglor before she ever met Curufin. Maglor admired her and got along well with her, too, and since Maglor and Curufin have pretty similar personalities, in my opinion, once Curufin and Héruminyë were introduced they too hit it from the get-go.
I don't think they were ever 'in love' (Curufin is too in love with his dad for that), but they worked well together, and figured getting married wouldn't hurt them. Curufin was very attentive to dynastic matters, and Héruminyë was very ambitious. Arrogant too and with a penchant for nonconformity inherited from her parents.
Her father was something of a dissident among the Vanyar - not one who would actually ever rebel, but not particularly enamoured with the whole 'praise the Valar' lifestyle, either. He didn't follow his daughter to Middle-Earth, of course, but he and his wife didn't take part in the War of Wrath either, and make no mystery of the fact that they still do care deeply for their daughter and will continue to do so no matter what. One of her mother's sisters was a Yavannildë, i.e. one of the women tasked with growing the corn from which coimas/lembas was made, and was instrumental in taking it to Middle-Earth.
In one possible version of canon, she marries Curufin right after Fëanor makes the Silmarils (see Treasure). Celebrimbor is a quasi-adult by the Darkening (and very likely killed someone at Alqualondë).
She goes with her in-laws to Middle-Earth, and it's she who leads the mounted archers stationed at the Pass of Aglon, as in Indian Summar Sky. (A Celegorm/Curufin/Wife threesome at least is pretty much canonical to me).
She goes on to survive the First Age, and leads the few surviving Fëanorians to safety (she doesn't join Celebrimbor because once he renounces his father she's done with him; she wasn't a particularly motherly type to begin with).
In one verse, she sticks with Saeros's dad (Ithilbor) and they forge a BROTP for the ages. (Not sure if I'll ever post anything with this).
In another, she hooks up with Caranthir and Maglor's (political) wives and they live together forever and ever, as in Fortune, which also has the added perk of them finding Maglor and the Silmaril with him. (I really like this verse).
This is basically Curufin's Wife in nearly all of my fics where she makes an appearance: Through the Dark, The Dark, Treasure, Leech (in Three Drabbles), Teasing, Toying, Crotchety, Poacher, Indian Summer Sky, Fortune as well as the one mentioned in A man for the making. Technically, she's also the one in Way To Fall, but I could easily change that.
The other wife I came up with yesterday is the daughter of one of Fëanor's supporters (thus a Ñoldo) and Curufin and she marry in a classical arranged marriage.
This could very well be the wife in The Time of the Comet. She does have a different name there, for one. Lalith would have to be something like Lalaítë in Quenya (or more likely Lalítë, but this sounds weird to me because it clashes with a real word), and very likely a second name too.
As for why Curufin and not one of his older brothers, well, Maedhros is way too gay to marry a woman, Maglor way too uninterested (though he could have done it, in a pinch), Celegorm and Caranthir not the type for marriage, and nobody would ever have asked the twins, which leaves only Curufin, who would have gladly married a dragon if his father asked.
Of course, the specifics of this scenario are still very vague in my head (personality-wise both versions remain very similar, but their occupation should be different).
The one fic where I'm uncertain which wife we're talking about is She. I didn't give her a name on purpose there, but I guess it could be this second wife, after Celegorm finds out that Curufin likes her more than he expected he would.
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Date: 2016-09-02 12:24 pm (UTC)Can your OCs be borrowed? I'd like to use Héruminyë in a bit part in a story I'm currently writing. :)
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Date: 2016-09-02 07:16 pm (UTC)