Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

finally!! babygirl in all his evil glory 😈

this is a wip!!🚧

There are Maiar who take on the forms of specific phenomena and might remain dormant or incorporeal when not appearing thus. Maiar might appear as (or leave behind) wisps, colors, smells, emotional or psychological or physical phenomena, flora and fauna, and even geography or dimensional spaces one can enter.

Maiar who take the form of currents or rain clouds or spots of light. Beech trees or climbing ivy or hummingbirds. Shimmering forms that distort space and time, or temporary inhibit the senses of anyone nearby.

They have vastly varying degrees of sentience (or at least what elves would view as sentience) and awareness and communication. Less complex forms can sometimes mean less complex existences, at least in the minds of elves and humans, but there is not a direct correlation.

Panel 2:  I’ve got a special magical trick to help heal all your wounds.

Panel 3: You trust me, don’t you?

Panel 5: Of course I trust you, Hawke.

‘Hawke thinks he can, if he tries hard enough’

‘Or even not at all.’

close call snuggles

For one point calling Mairon solely "Mairon" feels like disrespecting or rather neglecting Tolkien's concept of this character. He himself called him "Sauron" in many of his letters and his main works. This implied that as the author he actively chose the name "Sauron" over "Mairon" not only to create contrast but to highlight who this "great enemy" really was: A terrifying, cruel, vicious and malicious being feared so widely and thouroughly most people (including Gandalf) hesitate to even mention his name. Thus "Sauron" is not a mere name to the author (who was not only very fond of names but also put tremendous and great thought and skill in creating them) but rather a concept of pure, relentless and inexorable evil. Mairon was Sauron and he may have well enjoyed that name as well. We simply don't know. Furthermore, Tolkien had a very keen sense for the sound of language and it seems fitting he preferred the harsher tones of "Sauron" to the more melodious, smoother and softer tones of "Mairon" for this character. Much of this can be said in favor of "Morgoth" as well.

Thus, restricting myself to call them merely Mairon and Melkor feels just like that: restrictive and reducing these huge characters to a "mereley". They are both tremendous characters, both in their concepts and roles as opponnents of the good and mighty AND of the good and simple. I might be doing a bad job of explaining here but calling Sauron solely "Mairon" feels like deliberately cutting out the worst parts and sides of him - because he is not only admirable but ALSO despicable and vile and rotten and wicked and all the rest. Again, much in that same line can be said for Morgoth.

I can only explain my own reasening, thoughts and feelings of course.

Don't get me wrong. Of course Mairon will always see himself as The Admirable and his master as The Mighty One. And I adore these names <3

However, restricting their characters only to their original names while disregarding the names (and titles) given to them later ... well, it just feels like exactly that: restricting my favorite characters to something that sounds and means "nice".

Mind you, this is NOT a plea for calling them Sauron or Morgoth. Please, call these characters whatever and however you prefer 🖤 isn't diversity a wonderful thing in fandom? <3

But I also want to clarify that my original post was NOT at all meant to imply that using Melkor and Mairon is in some way more correct than Morgoth and Melkor or anything in that direction!! ;-;

It was meant as a more personal view and why I prefer using these names in a more silly way. And yes I'm probably mischaracterizing these two with every breath I'm taking... My blog is anything but serious! I'm attempting to be mildly funny here, and probably seriously failing at it lol...

Again, all you Silmarillion fans are such wonderful creatures! Ly all! 🙂❤️

(Typing this to put my mind at ease or else I cannot sleep tonight, omg I hate the thought of being perceived as slightly mean or judgemental ;-;)

(Yes I'm an insecure hoe)

There's absolutely no need to apologize 🫂 I've had this discussion a few times (with less open-minded and less sweet people than you) and I guess your post just sparked the sleeping wish in me to write more on the subject again 🤗 I'm sorry for making you feel insecure or like the "villain" here (though Mighty One and The Admirable would be VERY proud of you!)

No offence taken and none wished!

I enjoyed this "discussion" a lot 😏🤭 you seem really cool and funny 🖤 also YAY another Mairon/Melkor enthusiast!!!