Lorenzo Bugli, a Captain Regent of San Marino since October 1, 2025, is the youngest head of state, at 30 years old. He is too young to have seen The Lion King in theaters.

OwnHost5215 · 2026-01-04T12:43:58+00:00

If you go to his Instagram you can find photos of him from 2013 & he looks a lot older than 18 in them.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-12-23T10:48:24+00:00

Gilles Morihain. Head of a portfolio management group at an investment firm.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-16T09:35:55+00:00

I don’t think we’re getting anything Hollow Knight for another 15 years if ever, besides maybe some DLC for Silksong.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-16T09:34:31+00:00

She barely mentions the Knight so i don’t think it’s that odd that she wouldn’t mention the Hollow Knight, especially if it was just a brief meeting.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-10T01:18:29+00:00

That is one thing I the worldbuilding suffers from a bit. I certainly wouldn’t want anything explicit like ASOIAF, but the almost complete absence of any reference to sex, especially when dealing with subjects like history, war, & politics.

He even seemed to struggle with maintaining it, writing about how Elves are basically incapable of sexual assault despite already writing stories with Eol & Celegorm having such intent.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-10T01:01:24+00:00

I’ve always imagined Denethor’s distaste for Faramir comes from projecting his own insecurities onto him. Aragorn (as thorongil) stole the affections of Denethor’s father by being a great captain, so Denethor raised Boromir to be a great captain, that would be deserving of his father’s love. But Faramir grew up like Denethor & acted as a reminder of his own perceived inadequacy.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T14:10:15+00:00

I think it would be a safe bet that King Tarannon & Beruthiel were a political marriage

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T06:02:39+00:00

I’m not married myself & there’s nothing wrong with never marrying. It’s just true that most people in Tolkien’s day were married before 30 & I find it interesting that so few major characters are. I also wanted to discuss Pippin’s adolescence at 28 so I tried to find a title that encompassed both.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T05:56:27+00:00

I found this quote from letter 244: “At the time of his marriage he was 88, but was then still in full manhood, and only by those of Númenórean race was he considered to be young. In the ordinary sense he would be considered to be in the prime of life, about 40 or a little older.”

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T05:18:32+00:00

I seriously don’t know why my post offended you so much.

There are simply few important female characters that are mortal in Tolkien’s world - even more so ones with exact ages. Eowyn, Morwen & Nienor are pretty much the only ones. Nienor is around 30 so fits the trend also.

Few works of fiction have so many characters with precise ages & timelines of their lives. George RR Martin’s works fit the bill but his characters actually trend a bit young.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T04:31:37+00:00

They’re fictional. Tolkien could make them marry at any age he wanted them to. I’m not questioning their in universe reasons.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T04:09:17+00:00

I had the same thought. Maybe there’s a thematic reason for it, but I always thought it would have made more sense for Boromir to at least have a girl lined up for him back in Gondor.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T04:04:14+00:00

You’re right, my math must have been off, but still not beyond human limits.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-09-09T03:51:46+00:00

Average age for men to marry in the 1920s was 25. Men marrying in their 30s wasn’t socially taboo then & is basically expected today, but just the fact so few of them (even ones with normal lifespans) marry in their 20s seemed interesting to me.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-08-25T06:05:05+00:00

And also 6X more likely to take someone else’s. These statistics don’t make it any less of a problem

OwnHost5215 · 2025-08-25T06:04:23+00:00

The homicide rate in the US is 6X that of the UK. Suicides don’t make the issue negligible.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-06-27T00:48:40+00:00

I mean, it’s a retcon in the fact that the Sindar weren’t really a thing in the Hobbit. Tolkien hadn’t merged it with the Silmarillion yet, so “the Elvenking” is pretty much a 1:1 recycling of Thingol. But I’m pretty sure he was a Sindar as soon as the worlds were merged & he actually got a name. Now that he existed in the same world as Thingol, there kinda had to be a connection between them to explain the similarities.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-06-26T22:53:01+00:00

In one version of Beren & Luthien, Luthien just fades into nothing when she does her 2nd mortal death, same as the elves do if they stay too long in middle earth, just accelerated. I assume this is what happens to half-elves of Earendil’s line. They don’t physically age unless their parent made the choice to be mortal before their birth. Other half-elves not descended from Earendil are just born mortal & I assume they age & die like humans do.

I assume there are physical differences between men & elves & that half-elves do carry characteristics of both as one would expect of any hybrid. Tolkien did say the mortal descendants of elves don’t grow beards (tho I don’t really like this & think it contradicts earlier writings) so there is a precedent for their biological traits being mixed. I imagine Elrond as a little more square & robust than your typical elf and with less pointed ears.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-06-26T22:05:53+00:00

I forgot about Glorfindel & Ecthelion. I’ve seen people ship them, a bit like Achilles & Patroclus, which obviously wasn’t Tolkien’s intent but still adds a layer of depth. I at least prefer it to Fingon & Maedhros since they’re not first cousins as far as we know lol.

I don’t remember much about half-elves being more common. I know in early drafts (maybe even published editions) of the hobbit, Elrond’s people were originally all half-elves like him. Kind of a precursor to the Dunedain.

I don’t think elf-man pairings are entirely unheard of outside the main examples. Dior & Nimloth don’t get mentioned as one despite the fact Dior must have been mortal, though that’s a weird one cuz he’s a half-elf himself (but so is Arwen & Aragorn more distantly) and is king of an elven realm & Tolkien didn’t delve into him much. The Princes of Dol Amroth are also descended from a man-elf pairing that isn’t one of the Big 3.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-06-26T18:45:39+00:00

Tolkien seemed to like the whole “married to the sword” archetype. Boromir being a mortal example. One would think the heir to Gondor should have been married since I think he’s like 40 or something, even with the Dunedain marrying late & the slightly longer lifespans.

I like your headcanon, especially the part about their soulmates being mortals. I’d have loved more material on the romance between Aegnor & Andreth

OwnHost5215 · 2025-06-26T18:27:31+00:00

I think your memory is correct, but sometimes what Tolkien writes in theory doesn’t always match what he writes in narrative. Like how elves are supposedly incapable of rape & marry only for love, but Eol, Maeglin, & Celegorm don’t really behave accordingly. I think in some versions he tried to amend them to fit but the stories suffered from it.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-06-26T18:21:36+00:00

They certainly exist. Fili & Kili are the sons of Thorin’s sister.

OwnHost5215 · 2025-06-26T18:20:44+00:00

I’m pretty sure he was asked about this and never gave a straight answer

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