The battle goes horrifically wrong.
(Maedhros wakes.)
The battle goes horrifically wrong.
(Maedhros wakes.)
The battle goes horrifically wrong—
(Maedhros screams.)
for @tolkientimewarp Day 1: Time Loops!
greatly inspired by @theheirofashandfire's masterpiece A Thread Unraveled, I take the bold premise of a Nirnaeth time loop and wonder instead: what if that, but the version we have in canon is the good ending?
buckle up, it gets angsty >:)
Rating: T | Major Character Death
Relationships: Maedhros/Fingon
Characters: Maedhros, Fingon, Sons of Fëanor, Maglor
Word count: 2,300
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He came in secret, as has been told, to his ancient kingdom of Mordor beyond the Ephel Dúath, the Mountains of Shadow … there was a fiery mountain in that land that the Elves named Orod-ruin. Indeed for that reason Sauron had set there his dwelling long before, for he used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and in his forging; and in the midst of the Land of Mordor he had fashioned the Ruling Ring.
Summary:
Trying to build a new civilian life for himself Maedhros gets an unexpected call which turns everything on its head.
His estranged cousin-in-law Elwing has died and left behind two small children. When asked if he and his family could look after them Maedhros is hesitant, but this might actually be the new start he needs, whilst rediscovering old parts of himself and wondering where along the way Maitimo was lost. A story of new beginnings, finding family and love out of the ashes of old lives.
Words: 80,902
Chapters 15/?
Rating: M
Freddie Mercury (Real Life) vs Maglor (The Silmarillion)
Freddie Mercury
Maglor
(See Results)
Voting ended onJan 28, 2024
(Maglor art by @elena-kukanova)
Freddie Mercury Propaganda:
🎶HEEEEEE IS THE CHAAAMPION MY FRIEEENDS🎶
Maglor Propaganda:
He canonically has incredible and magical singing, he's very broody, he searches for sparkly gems, and he lowkey becomes an adopted dad
doomed singer and harper, loves gems, had a silmaril (ultimate shiny gem) but it hated him because he killed people for it, wrote the Noldolantë (lamenting song about the fall of his people) and now wanders the shores singing in pain and regret. the sun sparkles off his tears :)
My guys named after his voice. Committed murder, wrote mega hit about said murder, proceeded to commit Many more murders and added that to said song. Is said to be wandering the shores singing of his sorrows for eternity.
He is a bard because canon, and he is sparkly because he is drenched in seawater and it’s sunny out
he was known as the greatest bard of the Ñoldor, he killed a bunch of people and then wrote an absolute banger of a song about how sad it made him (he killed more people later though) he would be more sparkly if he had kept the Silmaril but it burned him (because he killed so many people) so he threw it into the sea and then wandered the beach forever singing about how sad he was and how he regretted murdering so many people over shiny rocks
Commits war crimes but feels bad after so he writes a sad song about it
He’s the mightiest singer of the Noldor (his group of elves)!!
He is remembered as one of the greatest musicians to ever live in Middle Earth and most of his story centers around sparkly rocks
Propaganda for Maglor in meme format (along with an excellent one about this matchup) by the wonderful @mismatchedshoes under the cut:
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I’m rewatching Fellowship of the Ring and noticed something. When told about the ring, Frodo says “Sauron was destroyed”.
This means that average people 2.5 thousand years after the war of the last alliance know about what happened there. They know that Sauron really existed and that he was a dark lord rather than just a man/elf.
So it makes me wonder, where is the line between history and myth for the people of middle earth?
We know from the Silmarilion about the Valar and Maiar, we know about the rise of ancient elven kingdoms and the wars of Morgoth. But what do average people know?
Like Frodo clearly accepts Sauron as a fact of history the way that we would Ghengis Khan, but I wonder what myths exist about these earlier ages.
Does Frodo know that Belereand and Numenor were real? Does he think the Silmarils are just a metaphor for the greed of man? That Beren and Luthien are a myth in the way that we think of King Arthur and Gweneviere?
We don’t have much information in the books about religion in middle earth, so it really makes me wonder how much of their history they’ve mythologized.
