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I still laugh whenever I remember that the reason there was a whole section in Goblet of Fire dedicated to Hermione explaining the correct pronunciation of her name to Viktor Krum was because JK Rowling had found out there were actually people out there calling her character “Hermy One”

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fenrisesque:

blood is not kosher

assuming vampires breathe, and are therefore alive, what do they do

If they’re alive and they need it to survive, it’s permitted (provided they don’t kill people in so doing).

If they’re not alive, halacha doesn’t apply to them.

Either way, there is no reasonable halachic restriction on a vampire drinking blood.

but would it need to be from a kosher animal
can they drink, like, dolphin blood

Okay now that gets interesting and I would want to actually ask a rabbi whether that would be a thing.  like, if one must consume the blood of living things to survive, does it make a difference whether one limits it to the blood of kosher animals or not.  I could see it being ruled either way.  (I would think if there is only one type of blood one can metabolize or if only one type of blood is available, one can consume it regardless.)

I remember learning that human blood (not sure about animal blood) is permissible to consume if it has not been “poresh” (”separated”) from the body (in the context of “if you cut your lip or your finger and immediately and instinctively put it in your mouth, you don’t have to spit out the blood”).

So 

Drinking blood out of a goblet or vacuum-sealed bag would be assur, but sinking your teeth into someone and drinking directly (so that the blood never touches the air or is in a vessel) would be okay.

I know that applies to one’s own blood, but I don’t know if the principle applies to someone else’s.  But it may count as a possible precedent!

Okay, so I asked my rabbi about this (… yes, my actual rabbi). Short answer, @fenrisesque​, is that the ideal situation is for the vampire to intravenously ingest blood that was donated by a human in order to stay alive, assuming that donation doesn’t kill the person. If homemade intravenously doesn’t work, then storebought oral ingestion is fine too. This applies whether or not the vampire can drink animal blood. Long answer, which I find fascinating but is long so under a cut:

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THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL please thank your rabbi for me

(also, consuming blood from a live person who will not be harmed by the loss of blood is completely different from killing and eating a person – because it is forbidden to derive material gain from a corpse, which includes using it for food, separately from any kosher/nonkosher issues.)

Where were you wonderful people when I was working on Tempus Fugitive???I?I

Listen I’m not a real religious person but the complete willingness of rabbis to seriously discuss whether various forms of possible vampire food are kosher is just the most amazing thing, and I feel like the Jewish people are really doing a lot of things right, is all.

proposal: ALL the Feanorians are blond

thelioninmybed:

Okay Anon, I’ve got a copy of HoME now, let’s do this. 

Easy mode

Celegorm

Cynegrim Fagerfeox [Celegorm ‘Fairfax’, i.e. fair-
haired.] 

That is pretty fucking straightforward, my dudes. 

Conclusion: BLOND 

Medium

Maglor

As my learned colleague June already pointed out, the laure in Makalure means golden which could be a reference to his musical ability or a literal reference to his hair colour. Given the Finwean propensity for never shutting up about coiffure, Occam’s razor suggests the latter.

Conclusion: BLOND

Curufin

This is harder. We know Curufin is a mini me of Feanor, noted for his ‘raven dark’ hair. But the quote is ‘he also resembled Feanor very much in face’ and face is not hair. Obviously, his hair could be whatever fucking colour. 

Conclusion: BLOND

…Fuck, I did my best here

Caranthir:  

[Caranthir] was black-haired as his grandfather.

Hmm, I thought. Why not as dark haired as his father? Are we sure Finwe’s black haired? This could be a Douglas Adams-esque descriptive slight of hand. 

[Finwe] had black hair, but brilliant grey-blue eyes.

…Shit. But wait!

[Caranthir] was dark (brown) haired, but had the ruddy complexion of his mother.

Inconsistency! Is he black haired or brunette? Or is he NONE OF THOSE THINGS? We also have the clarification he has a ‘ruddy’ complexion which is, of course, what the ‘dark’ must actually be referring to. 

Conclusion: BLOND

Maedhros

Okay, this is difficult because his hair colour is given explicitly (”But [Maedhros], and the youngest, inherited the rare red- brown hair of Nerdanel’s kin, Her father had the epesse of rusco ‘fox’.” (Sidenote: Mahtan is a stone cold, stoneworking fox, you heard it here first))

The thing is, these books are Tolkien doing his best to translate and reconstruct ancient, conflicting records and so of course some mistakes slipped in. Tolkien himself wrote an entire essay called How do you solve a problem like Maitimo ‘the Problem of Ros’, trying to reconcile how the ‘Ros’ element could mean ‘red’ in Maedhros and ‘foam’ in Elros. If I were half-arsing it I’d propose the ‘Ros’ in Maedhros is actually the same as Elros, and his name should be read as ‘lovely seafoam’ and thus, if it implies anything about his hair colour, implies it’s white (blond) like his grandmother’s. 

But I have a better explanation!

[Mahtan] was most widely known as Urundil ‘copper-lover’. He usually wore a band of copper about his head. Of Nerdanel’s seven children […] The eldest also wore a copper circlet. 

Hmm. 

So Maitimo had as an epesse given by his brothers and other kin Russandol ’copper-top’

HMMM. 

Obviously, the nickname ‘Russandol’ (elements of which were used in the Sindarin name Maedhros) refers, not to his hair colour, but to said copper circlet. Historians like Pengolodh, who had never seen him in person, were simply confused and assumed, not unreasonably, his name referred to his hair. 

Conclusion: BLOND

Amrod/ras:

The two twins were both red-haired. Nerdanel gave them both the name Ambarussa 

This…leaves me very little wriggle room. But, assuming, as above, that them being red haired is a misinterpretation of the reason for their name ‘Ambarussa’, I think we can do something with this. 

When Feanor begged that their names should at least be different Nerdanel looked strange, and after a while said: ‘Then let one be called [Ambarto >] Umbarto, but which, time will decide.’

Umbarto/Ambarto, of course, meaning ‘Fated’ and being a reference to one twin’s horrible, fiery death at Losgar.

Was ‘Ambarussa’ likewise prophetic? What, aside from hair, is copper coloured? Blood. And flame. Thus, Ambarussa refers only to the mortal head injury/fire that killed them and tells us nothing about their hair colour!

Conclusion: BLOND

Send me a (patently ridiculous) theory and watch me scramble to prove it.