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I really like exchanges.  I usually do several a year, mostly fandom specific (Queen’s Thief and Tolkien fandoms, primarily).  Every year I read through dozens of prompts and DNWs (partly because I like writing treats in addition to my main fic) and I always end up stumbling over a lot of things where I’m like “this is going to make it unnecessarily hard for your writer.” Continue reading…

for Turgon and Maeglin?

Thank you very much! I love your writing!

Thank you for the prompt! <3

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The day after Aredhel was laid to rest, Maeglin came to Turgon. His eyes were reddened but dry, and he bowed low even though they were alone, in private. The reason became clear in a moment, when he asked permission to descend to the bottom of Caragdûr to build a cairn for Eöl. “Only a simple one,” he said, voice quiet, gaze somewhere around Turgon’s knees.

“Why?” Turgon asked, aghast at the thought of giving even that much honor to Aredhel’s murderer, before his mind caught up to his tongue and he remembered—

“He was my father,” Maeglin said, still quiet, expression now shuttered. He clasped his hands behind his back, posture stiff. “And—my mother loved him, once.”

“What do you need for it?” Turgon asked after a moment.

But seriously, the obsession some people (and by some, I mean many) have with drawing "parallels" between angbang and every other ship under the sun needs to be studied.

Melkor was canonically the only person whom Sauron was willing to acknowledge and accept as his superior. He also didn't betray him the way he betrayed Aule, nor did he seek to reject him the way he ultimately rejected Eru. And Melkor is also the only person toward whom Sauron's feelings were ever described as "a shadow of goodness." You won't find anything remotely similar said about anyone else, with no exceptions! Because Sauron being friends with Eonwe, being fond of Celebrimbor, or wanting "Galadriel's light to balance him" is either fanon or from an adaptation.

But at least with some characters, you could argue that we don't have any canon quotes stating that Sauron hated or despised them. With Pharazon, however, WE KNOW he hated him from the very first moment they met and was laughing like a maniac with joy when he sent him to a certain death.

It's similar to angbang now???

FUCKING WHERE???

several hundred years later: Ecthelion murders Gothmog

at least several hundred years later in the undying lands: Feanor reluctantly but also desperately trying to befriend/bribe Ecthelion into being friends in repayment for "avenging him" because "it was such a noble thing to do and you've done a great service to the house of Feanor" but also "I totally could have done it myself if.......(insert several bizarre examples that make it clear he has had a lot of time to think about it)" all while Ecthelion is slowly trying to back away.

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