Through Bliss to Woe, Through Sorrow to Joy

a fic for the @tolkienrsb 2022, written by @maedhrus and featuring art by me @arofili | @annaquenta !

“The storm battered the swan boats. It felt like divine intervention. Ossë raging and spitting at the murderers, Ulmo allowing it. That felt worse. The permissibility of their suffering.”

In the aftermath of the First Kinslaying, Nelyafinwë Maitimo makes a different choice and Findekáno accompanies the first host. This changes many things.

Rating: M | No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Maedhros/Fingon, Fëanor & Maedhros, Fingolfin & Fingon, Maedhros & Sons of Fëanor, Fëanor & Fingon Characters: trans!Fingon, Maedhros, Fëanor, Curufin, Fingolfin, Sons of Fëanor Word count: 18.6k

Full art piece rebloggable HERE! (Rating: T)

But when they were landed, Maedhros the eldest of his sons, and on a time the boyfriend of Fingon ere Morgoth's lies came between (they’re husbands now it’s nbd), spoke to Fëanor, saying: “Now what ships and rowers will you spare to return, and whom shall they bear hither first? Fingolfin my father-in-law? BTW Fingon’s already here, don’t be mad...”

or:

sad snuggling on the swan-ships after you did some murders, & tfw your father-in-law challenges you to a duel but you’re in your jammies

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This is one of my two art pieces for the @tolkienrsb 2022, an AU where Maedhros sneaks Fingon onto the swan-ships and all hell breaks loose! 

The accompanying fic is being written by the stellar @maedhrus!!

My TRSB22 Masterpost

(unedited images beneath the cut)