Welcome to my Maglor vent post. Today I am going to address some things I come across in fanfiction often, that I find personally grinding, tiring, or irksome in no particular order.
1. When Maedhros and Maglor appear together in a story or drabble (usually as secondary or minor characters, like in a flashback or memory of Elrond's) and all or most of Maglor's redeeming or interesting qualities are given to Maedhros thus making Maglor feel flat and lifeless in comparison.
2. When Maglor is found on the beach in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, whatever age, and BOTH of his PALMS are burned to the point that his hands are rendered completely unusable. If you want to go down the perfectly reasonable route of "Maglor was burned by the silmaril" (even though I personally, and perhaps unpopularly, do not follow this particular interpretation) why would someone pick up a jewel -that's small enough for Beren to completely enclose in his hand, mind you- with BOTH PALMS simultaneously? It gets me every time, man.
3. Similarly, when Maglor is found in later ages still wearing clothes from the first age, despite being 'worn and threadbare to the point of being nearly unrecognizable'. Like, either he's gotten new clothes since the first age, or hes naked as the day he was born. Because at that point, how are his clothes even still useable? Unless hes been patching the shit out of them, I guess... in which case that should be mentioned in the description.
4. On a similar note to number 1- when Maedhros is the 'mom-brother' and Maglor is the reclusive, antisocial musician who has no idea how to properly empathize with, control, understand, mediate, or care for his own younger brothers, or even complete strangers, and has to rely on Maedhros to help him deal with them responsibly or diplomatically. As number 3 in a family of 7 children myself, I just have a hard time understanding this characterization. Hes a prince, and a spare, and a leader himself. He should have some level of social competence.
5. Maglor as a pure, uwu soft boi who can do no wrong. No. Recognize Maglor's BAMF status and Kinslayer classification 2k20. By all means, save and redeem him to your heart's content, please, but the boy is still a proud Feanorian, and an equally stabby-stabby-babby
Those are just some of the things that bother me when I read fanfiction about or including Maglor. There are others. But dont get me wrong, there's no hate here! By all means, write maglor however you want, you dont need my approval and I'm honestly just glad to have Maglor-centric stuff to read. I just wanted to vent a bit.
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