As somebody who has pored over your past stories, I cannot help but find the hunt for the pieces of eden to be akin to the events of the wars of the jewels as mentioned in the silmarillion. In your view, how would you think a post-death Desmond (who winds up possessing some magic Isu powers) in beleriand getting involved with either the quest of the silmaril or the fostering of elrond and elros (referred to as the kidnap fam by sectors of silm fandom) by the last sons of feanor would go down?
It would be fun if Desmond doesn’t know about the plot of Silmarillion. He only watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy but he never read any of the books. Didn’t even get to watch the first The Hobbit movie because he was busy trying to save the world.
Shaun did go on a tirade about how it was possible that JRR Tolkien had some knowledge about the precursors and used that as the basis of the books. (Years later after Desmond’s death, Shaun would wonder if it was possible that JRR Tolkien was a Sage) but Desmond had been to busy trying to remember how his body worked to pay him much attention.
So, when Desmond gets transported in the middle of the Quest of the Silmaril, he knows he’s in a different world but he didn’t know he was in the same world as the movies he watched before.
It’s only when he meets Galadriel by chance that he realized where he was and even that information is useless considering he’d been pushed into the distant past.
For this one, we can go two different routes:
(1) Desmond gets in the thick of the entire thing because he saw the death and misery brought upon the land by the greed and desire to possess these ‘stones’.
(2) Desmond gets roped into it against his will because Morgoth lose another Silmaril and no one knows how that happened. All they know is that the ‘distinct feeling’ of the Silmaril is encasing Desmond. Desmond swears he doesn’t have any stone or jewel or whatever but no one believes him.
Both routes would have Desmond take in a rogue third party of some sort role. Would he create his own Brotherhood? Not in the beginning but after more and more people follow him, he’s forced to acknowledge that, yeah, he’s definitely the mentor now.
And his targets are those who would stop at nothing to get those damn stones.
And yes, that includes the Sons of Fëanor.
It is during his pursuit after them that he finds Elrond and Elros, effectively stopping Maglor from ‘adopting’ them. Desmond tries to help Elrond and Elros in finding their father because, as far as they know, their mother is already dead.
Desmond definitely assumed their father is an asshole for not even looking for them after what has happened and sorta-kinda adopted the two.
Desmond has a problem of his own though.
He noticed that he wasn’t aging at all.
No matter how many years have passed…
(If Desmond is the silmaril given ‘human’ form, he would be the silmaril of the earth, ‘cursed’ to walk Middle-Earth until Dagor Dagorath)
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