xerirestes

none of these words are on tolkien gateway

Maedhros: we cannot kinslay kinsplain our way outta this one huh

a very interesting take on a re-embodied Celegorm and Oromë

I'm usually and in a canonical-reading-context way a very 'the eagles came because it was fingon specifically who asked' kind of truther, but recently I've been thinking—what if it wasn't. what if it was for maedhros. what if maedhros was in fact beloved by manwë specifically, what if manwë sent them for him, finally having a chance to do so, with fingon there. what if it did not change anything, and even with that olive branch, with this sign of forgiveness even after maedhros took manwë's name in vain upon the oath, what after all of this, maedhros still descends on his downward spiral, on and on, """"wasting"""" it all. like, as one possible interpretation, as one thing that would actually somewhat parallel him to celegorm (which I do have a whole meta post on its own for but ain't nobody got time for that) that is actually sooo compelling to me, good fucking god