Random Sad/Happy Post-Return of the King Headcanons

mrshamill:

khazzman:

1. Sam on no less then three separate royal feasts has accidentally called Aragorn Strider mid-conversation. Aragorn loves it while often times the gathered nobles are aghast.
2. On every royal visit North, Aragorn makes sure that the entire royal retinue stops in Bree where he spends the night at the Pony, enjoying Butterbur’s ale and hearing the concerns and good fortunes of the Bree-folk. Butterbur is always flustered when Aragorn speaks of him in high esteem to the gathered nobles.
3. When Elboron begins taking an interest in swordplay, Faramir leaves a good portion of his training to Eowyn. With a sword, Elboron looks too similar to a young Boromir and Faramir has a hard time with that.
4. The dwarves and elves who come to craft in Minas Tirith strike up a competition to see who craft/grow the fairest things in the city. This brings prosperity to the city before Aragorn declares Arwen the winner upon the birth of their eldest child, a daughter. On seeing the little princess, the elves and dwarves happily agree.
5. Sam is deathly afraid of spiders, always grasping at his hip for Sting whenever he sees one scuttle away.
6. A few years after the War of the Ring, two old men, garbed in eastern styled robes of blue, pass through the Shire one night heading west. Sam hears mutterings outside Bag End and peaks out a window. The two figures stand where Saruman was killed, both shaking their heads. They then continue West and are never heard from again.
7. Merry’s son Holdwine, and Pippin’s son, Faramir, both travel into the Old Forest in search of Bombadil as an adventure of their own. When they get to where they believe the house should be, all that is there is a sturdy green hill with bright blue flowers growing on top and a stream running beside it, covered in water-lilies.
8. The Rohirrim of Helm’s Deep and the dwarves of Aglarond become such close friends that some often refer to the men as “The Southern Dale-folk”. Rohirrim in other parts see them and their friendship as quite odd.
9. Eowyn would often travel with Aragorn and Eomer’s armies south and east to provide healing to both friends and foes after a battle. She favored disguising herself as Dernhelm often and would save injured men from the heat of battle. Legends among the Easterlings sprout of a “goddess of mercy” who appears as a charging foe only to ride off with them to safety and tend their wounds before returning to battle.
10. After days of political dinners, balls, campaigns, and kingly duties, sometimes Aragorn will wrap himself in his old Ranger’s clothes, put his hood up, and sneak from the city to wander in the Ithilien woods. Sometimes tracking dangerous wildlife or even wayward orcs. Any who come across him only know him by the name “Strider” and often unknowingly share a meal outdoors with their king.

I might add more as time goes on.

Lovely, and very sound head-canon. May I add?

Celeborn stays in Lorien until Arwen comes to die. Only then does he build a boat and go with the last few elves down the river to the sea. He feels it’s his way of saying “I’m sorry” to The Walkers for ever having doubted any of them (especially Gimli).