Silmarillion trash

Here be ainur (and the occasional dragon and elf). My writing about said creatures can be found on ao3 under HolyPlasmaBall. 

[mhevarujta]

The verse that makes it in The Lay of Leithian as:

Thou fool: a phantom thou didst see that I, I Sauron, made to snare thy lovesick wits. Naught else was there. Cold 'tis with Sauron's wraiths to wed!

was originally written as an interaction between Gorlim and Melkor, instead of Sauron:

Thou fool! A phantom thou didst see that Sauron my servant made to snare thy lovesick wits. Naught else was there. Cold 'tis with Sauron's wraiths to wed!

And while both work and I can definitely see Sauron ridiculing his victim, I absolutely love the idea of Melkor bragging about his most loyal "servant" 's power and the way he uses it. And I enjoy the idea that Melkor and Sauron both inflicted torment upon the same person in different ways, one's actions complimenting the other's in service of their common goal.

[mhevarujta]

While we get many mentions of Sauron and Melkor's actions throughout the Legendarium, we hardly get mentions of Mairon fighting at war. So this passage of Mairon providing distraction while Melkor retreated to their stronghold and gathered their forces, is a small glimpse of them working in unison that I really appreciate.

[birdandmoon]

Heat waves.

[psbyte]

Upon all whom you love my thought shall weigh.

[rgv-art]

not me inventing another design AGAIN

da red peacock

[dragonofmordor]

I think we downplay Melkor's intelligence a lot. Yes, he's impulsive. Yes, he's not quite as good at Mairon at really complex, Millenia-long plans with exacting detail. But he's still brilliant.

And even if we ignored everything he does that shows his brilliance, there is no chance that Mairon would ever have been willing to serve someone who wasn't smart. There is no way he would tie himself so fully to someone who wasn't a match for him, someone he couldn't respect, someone he didn't believe had the intelligence as well as the power to implement their plans. It just isn't in his nature. Yes, he saw Melkor's physical power for sure. But he wouldn't have been willing to work for someone who was just brute strength and nothing more.

[deandros]

Im bawling

[izinika]

Yavanna and Vana

Silmarillion

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[psbyte]

the bad guy. yeah. that guy

[northern-punk-lad]

Being prime minister of the uk has a higher regret rate than being trans

So the solution is to ban prime ministers

[northern-punk-lad]

[officerhaughtstuff]

You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

[heterokatedison]

is it too early or can we start screaming now

[heterokatedison]

in retrospect perhaps we should have started sooner

[jorolle]

this post is the equivalent of a newspaper from the day of the outbreak being blown past by the wind after you wake up in a post apocalyptic world

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[saurons-pr-department]

Fanon!Mairon: Serious. No nonsense. Stores his tools (both forge and torture) on alphabetised shelves. There are rumours from the depths of time that he cracked a smile once.

Canon!Mairon: Complete chaotic bastard. Very giggly in a evil way. Only has his shit together marginally better than Melkor, and by that I mean that he’ll go outside and can focus on things. Is all about The Aesthetic TM.

[fortuitousraven]

So true, his ridiculous sense of humour and love of drama (calling Shelob his cat and stealing only black horses, lol) was why I liked him even in lotr. I think he is organized but it bugs me when he is portrayed as overly serious.

[saurons-pr-department]

While I do like an overly serious Mairon, I think we’re definitely missing out on laughs-at-his-own-evil chaos-monster Mairon. He’s far too much fun to continue to be ignored

[kisses-in-the-void]

I guess it’s because people want him to be “the opposite of Melkor,” when he really isn’t. But people love contrasts, and if we already have Melkor as the chaotic, laughing bastard, then of course Mairon has to be shoved into the other box: “the overly serious one.”

[sweetsweetemo]

MAKE HER TALLER THAN HIM. NOW

[lilvalavor]

Ohhhhhh feanor what did the plot did to you

-made by pure agony

[subliminamilly]

The making of the Silmarils, 98.7% accuracy.

[braxix]

Annatar: I know dictatorships are bad and everything, but maybe it would be different with me on the throne.

[normalmammal]

I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it

[normalmammal]

Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors

[las-lus]