#amillo

Tolkien OC Week: Family Members (Aug 25th)

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I had a few different ideas for this prompt--and many more besides xD--but ultimately landed on these three:

1. Amillo

Also known as Omar. Originally, he was the Valar of Song, but Tolkiem cut him out of the lineup. In my rewritten version, he’s still the Valar of Song, and also the younger brother of Melkor and Manwe, who's brought in near Dagor Dagorath to take Melkor’s empty spot in the Pantheon and help defeat his evil brother when he breaks thru the Doors of Night.

2. Nelldamma

Twin sister of Curumo. She becomes the unofficial Chief Maia of Aule (he stopped having official ones after his first two turned to evil). Though heartbroken over her brother's betrayal, she covers the pain with focused devotion and stoic duty to her lord and the maiar under her care.

3. Gilruin

Maia of Aule, one of the youngest, having only come from the Timeless Halls in the Fifth Age. She's very interested in Arda Marred, wanting to actually get to see and experience of the creations she helped sing into being. She is also the younger sister of Mairon/Sauron, a fact that combined with her more restless nature makes Lord Aüle very nervous, despiste the care he has for her.

Erion (tommy b), Hlónanís (the river-woman), Melian, Gelion, Eönwë, Amillo, and Olórin (Gandalf), as they were in the early Years of the Trees :) This isn’t the whole crop of ~eldest~, but the others (Fangorn, Orodruin, Gorgumoth, etc) tend to take less elfin forms on the daily.

Thank you @ibrithir-was-here for opening my eyes to Omar, the valar of song, reinterpreted as the brother of Melkor and Manwe \(^o^)/

🙏 The chaos duo is a trio now