Dragon of Mordor

This is the blog of an obsessive Tolkien fan who enjoys Dark Lords, tragic elves, and pretty much anything from Middle Earth. Also sometimes Flightrising related posts or stuff from other things or real life.

[melkor-did-nothing-wrong]

Since now we know that truth or canonicity in fandom spaces is completely useless, meaningless and nobody cares about it, I think we need to start inventing cute angbang fluff tidbits that don't actually exist and just treat em as canon the same way people treat their own headcanons that don't actually exist in the text.

I'll start:

Melkor actually gave Mairon flowers very often. He was once told by the Balrog we would later know as Durin's Bane that it's not very dark lord of him to give out flowers, to which Melkor explained that these are actually highly poisonous and only Mairon as the chief torturer of Angband has the right to use them and extract their toxins to use in his interrogations.

[saintstars]

show me your teeth

[dragonofmordor]

Thanks @ladysterndust and @perlen-gold for tagging me.

Name 5 songs currently on repeat:

Oooo. So many, TBH. I just love music. Here's just 5 of them that I'm repeating currently.

Eternia from the Masters of the Universe Soundtrack by Daniel Pemberton

Sabaton- Soldiers of Heaven

Sabaton- Race to the Sea (I just adore Sabaton)

Clamavi De Profundis- The Battle of Sauron and Finrod Felagund

Imperial March from the Star Wars soundtracks by John Williams

Anyone who wants to try this may consider themselves tagged.

[persefoni-art]

wip

[mai-komagata]

Angbang for the ship opinion bingo!

Hoo boy, should i just mark the entire sheet? :D

Easy ones:

"I can make it so fucked up <3" although im not a big "abusive angbang person" in definitely in the "they get up to some kinky shit and mairon would never say no". "Basically canon to me" -- i mean, its the only person Sauron is devoted to/loved in any sense of the word. What else is there to say? "I can make it so stupid <3" -- very easy to come up with funny oc scenarios for the both of them. There is something inherently dumb about being that evil. "they make me feel insane", "brb i gotta get through their whole ship tag" -- didn't quite make it through, they are just so many, but yeah... "oh the devotion" -- lots of good devotion love stories in Tolkien, but i love this subversion of one. "thematically delicious", "compatible brand of freaks" -- yup. Controversial yes'es: "They enable the worst in each other" -- I think Sauron enables the worst in Melkor, I think he makes him more effective and more destructive than he would be alone. I think Melkor brings out the best in Sauron, which is devotion and service and a goal. "oh there is no way this will end well..." -- im a sucker for a nice post end of the world reunion, but no. I think realistically they self destruct in any universe because they can't help escalating the situation to destruction. "I don't see them as romantic" "not dating but married nonetheless" -- I see both of them as very aro, but doesn't mean they aren't together in a wholly different way. They are just different and special in the way they interpret being together.

Throw in a "they're sweet" for some bingo. ;) Definite nos: I don't think they are codependent. Widowers or on a long distance break but never exes. I don't think they have other partners while the other is around. I have too much to say about it. I like them in almost all vaguely canon scenarios. definitely my thing. I don't see why they would try to murder each other. Someone else will do it for them ;) Never enemies.

[dragonofmordor]

Yes. And also, I'd like to say for the first one that Melkor also never says no. Mairon has so many ideas for things he wants Melkor to do. Mairon likes to plan everything, even the bedroom.

[kisses-in-the-void]

I know I'm an angbang-brained weirdo, but the fact that Mairon stayed in Melkor's temple after he finally sent the Numenorean fleet to its death is such an important detail to me.

Because he could have chosen to be anywhere. He could have sat in the king's palace, even on the throne itself, which would also have been symbolic, and no one could have prevented him from doing so, even if they had wanted to. (By that point people had already started calling him a god.)

But instead he chose to remain in a place that not only symbolized his own power over the island, but also connected him to Melkor.

"Look how far I've come and how much I've accomplished. I've avenged both of us now."

It's as if he wanted to share his victory with Melkor, to celebrate it together the way they did in the old days.

[braxix]

Elrond: Galadriel! Disown me!

Galadriel: I'm not your mother.

Elrond: No, no, disown me out of the Finwion line.

Galadriel: Nope. If I have to deal with it, you have to deal with it.

[vildo]

Maedhros: I am allergic to my brothers

Maedhros: and it’s not seasonal

[braxix]

Elrond: I'm gonna murder someone!

Celebrimbor: Absolutely not. Someone in this family has to be the innocent one and it sure isn't us.

Elrond: Galadriel can do it.

Gil-Galad: Galadriel has more trauma than all of us combined.

Elrond: I have trauma!

Gil-Galad: Not enough.

[braxix]

Galadriel in Valinor: It's so interesting to see how much this place has changed.

Elrond: Changed? I'm pretty sure I can see scorch marks on that wall and graffiti proclaiming Findarato was here.

Galadriel: Must be recent.

[braxix]

Finrod: You're invited to the barbeque.

Sauron: *sigh* Is it werewolf again?

Finrod: Of course it is, idiot.

[braxix]

Maedhros: Do you have to bring the harp?

Maglor: It's for emotional support.

Maedhros: I thought that's what Elrond and Elros were for.

Maglor: No, we are their emotional support. Not the other way around.

Maedhros: Harp or the boys. Choose.

Maglor: You're a bastard.

[aotearoa20]

Sauron: If the Valar want to send me to hell... I will simply not go

Eonwe:

Sauron: What are they gonna do? Send me hell?

Sauron: Im already not going

Eonwe: the fu-

[mhevarujta]

My hot take about Sauron escaping to Taur-na-Fuin is that I don't believe Sauron was going there to hide. I think he chose the specific place because it was the closest area in which he could establish a new fortress and a throne to deliver to Melkor as substitute of what he lost at Tol-in-Gaurhoth.

"for Thu had flown to Taur-na-Fuin, a new throne and darker stronghold there to build."

The location is chosen because it's close by and therefore it allows them an oversight of approximately the same areas, and the proximity to Tol-in-Gaurhoth doesn't hurt Sauron personally either, since he's injured and still bleeding when he has to choose where to go.

After all, even if Sauron had not basically advertised his presence, which he did due to the horrors he caused, we know that Luthien mentions Sauron's location to Melkor:

'A lawful errand here me brought; from Thu's dark mansions have I sought, from Taur-na-Fuin's shade I fare to stand before thy mighty chair! '

And Melkor acts surpriised that Luthien is there because he knows that's not Thuringwethil, but not concerning the location from which she's coming from. This implies that he may already know. My point is that if Melkor wanted to he could have tried to force Sauron back at any point. Sauron was never hidden from him. And what he did served Melkor.

[dragonofmordor]

Mairon would probably make a great lawyer. I wish I had even a tenth of his self confidence and ability to speak.

[dragonofmordor]

Can I just say how much I love villains who are dramatic? Villains who are extreme, who love to show off, who just have a whole lot of fun being their evil selves? Big reason Mairon very quickly became a favorite character after reading the Silmarillion. A villain who has a literal song battle with an enemy? How can you not love that?

[dragonofmordor]

I always end up shipping villains. Always. Just came back from watching Masters of the Universe. I never really watched the cartoon back in the day, but I loved the movie. And now I'm shipping Skeletor/He-Man and Skeletor/Evil-Lyn.