or: armenelos

vardasvapors:

I’m a horrible mean person and I really, really, really love the idea of Elros standing in the unfinished open-air city square looking at a giant stack of references describing traditional Edain town planning and architecture styles, and enthusing and micromanaging at his builders about his Vision™ for his city, with gardens full of benches and groves of trees and a massive public library and a long colorful marketplace and his weird Bird Tower for that pair of eagles – timelapse to Sauron sacrificing screaming prisoners in his giant oppressive temple on the exact same spot.