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.

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So I got real self indulgent for this one, but these are some of my oldest Tolkien OCs so I had to do them xD

First off we have Alvin Lowdham, an English folklore historian and linguist living just as Dagor Dagorath looms. His family has always had visions of the distant past, so he knows the stories of the Silmarillion are truth, but he is the first to also see the horrors of the coming future. When the Silmaril is fished up from the depths of the sea, Alvin makes it his goal to gain it before the forces of darkness can, and find a way to return it to Valinor before the last battle of the last age begins.

He is added in this quest by his wife Gail Lowdham, formerly known as Gilruin. A Maia of Aule, who desired to see Arda Marred itself, not just the peaceful shores of Valinor, and became concerned with the seeming apathy of the Valar as the signs of Dagor Dagorath began to appear. Finally she found a way to escape into modern day Middle Earth, and there met and eventually fell in love with Alvin. Together they work to gain the Silmaril when it’s rediscovered and try to prevent the return of Morgoth.

Unfortunately, their quest become more complicated than they anticipated …

Alvin was in his past life Herendil, third and youngest son of Elendil, and was the last sacrifice made to Morgoth before the Alkallabeth. Sauron had been trying to use the weight of so many innocent souls cut down early to create a hole in the Void and release Morgoth. A plot which was foiled by the bending of the world and fall of Numenor. However, unbeknownst to any, even Sauron, a piece of Morgoth’s essence had managed to slip through and attach to Herendil’s soul. This piece remained dormant until Herendil was reborn as Alvin, at which point it began to slowly influence his actions for its own gain, especially in seeking the Silmaril. And as the Doir of Night creeps open, his influence over Alvin only grows…

Oh hey it would work for Celebrimbor wouldn't it?

But actually no it's a reference to the Valarin name for my OC Gilruin, who was the first Tolkien OC I ever created, and then I just did the "was-here" part cuz it kind of rhymed with Ibrithir 😅

The lovely artists I tried to copy this time where

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