I'll will always call Melkor and Mairon by their names and not Morgoth and Sauron. That would be like saying "Hey! These are my beloved blorbos BIG FUCKING ASSHOLE and STINKY ONE!"
Bro no, my boys are called Mighty One and Precious...
While I totally understand and partially support this line of thought and reasoning I'd like to point out that people calling Mairon also Sauron and Melkor also Morgoth like myself are no lesser fans of these characters, let alone less ardent shippers.
For one point calling Mairon solely "Mairon" feels like disrespecting or rather neglecting Tolkien's concept of this character. He himself called him "Sauron" in many of his letters and his main works. This implied that as the author he actively chose the name "Sauron" over "Mairon" not only to create contrast but to highlight who this "great enemy" really was: A terrifying, cruel, vicious and malicious being feared so widely and thouroughly most people (including Gandalf) hesitate to even mention his name. Thus "Sauron" is not a mere name to the author (who was not only very fond of names but also put tremendous and great thought and skill in creating them) but rather a concept of pure, relentless and inexorable evil. Mairon was Sauron and he may have well enjoyed that name as well. We simply don't know.
Furthermore, Tolkien had a very keen sense for the sound of language and it seems fitting he preferred the harsher tones of "Sauron" to the more melodious, smoother and softer tones of "Mairon" for this character.
Much of this can be said in favor of "Morgoth" as well.
Thus, restricting myself to call them merely Mairon and Melkor feels just like that: restrictive and reducing these huge characters to a "mereley".
They are both tremendous characters, both in their concepts and roles as opponnents of the good and mighty AND of the good and simple.
I might be doing a bad job of explaining here but calling Sauron solely "Mairon" feels like deliberately cutting out the worst parts and sides of him - because he is not only admirable but ALSO despicable and vile and rotten and wicked and all the rest.
Again, much in that same line can be said for Morgoth.
I can only explain my own reasening, thoughts and feelings of course.
Don't get me wrong. Of course Mairon will always see himself as The Admirable and his master as The Mighty One. And I adore these names <3
However, restricting their characters only to their original names while disregarding the names (and titles) given to them later ... well, it just feels like exactly that: restricting my favorite characters to something that sounds and means "nice".
Mind you, this is NOT a plea for calling them Sauron or Morgoth. Please, call these characters whatever and however you prefer 🖤 isn't diversity a wonderful thing in fandom? <3
It's simply my reasoning for using both names 🥰 (and perhaps sometimes even slightly leaning towards "Sauron" in Mairon's case <3)
I really REALLY appreciate and love reading this deep analysis concerning names and titles! Like, wow, I never considered how Melkor and Mai might feel about their given titles!
But I also want to clarify that my original post was NOT at all meant to imply that using Melkor and Mairon is in some way more correct than Morgoth and Melkor or anything in that direction!! ;-;
It was meant as a more personal view and why I prefer using these names in a more silly way. And yes I'm probably mischaracterizing these two with every breath I'm taking... My blog is anything but serious! I'm attempting to be mildly funny here, and probably seriously failing at it lol...
Again, all you Silmarillion fans are such wonderful creatures! Ly all! 🙂❤️
(Typing this to put my mind at ease or else I cannot sleep tonight, omg I hate the thought of being perceived as slightly mean or judgemental ;-;)
I'll will always call Melkor and Mairon by their names and not Morgoth and Sauron. That would be like saying "Hey! These are my beloved blorbos BIG FUCKING ASSHOLE and STINKY ONE!"
Bro no, my boys are called Mighty One and Precious...
The stuff I draw when you leave me unsupervised for one moment.
Sverall - the Highlord of Chaos, the God of Change, Wisdom and Madness.
One of the deities I created for my paracosm and quite a favorite of mine. A being so unpredictable yet full of knowledge beyond human or celestial comprehension. It is most unfortunate nobody ever gets his bright ideas and theories, really.
Last night I had a dream (vision) that Dottore will be playable in Snezhnaya and he looks exactly like Omega Dottore except his boots were replaced by ice-skates.
Kinda feel like Hoyo gave Lohen to us like parents who buy a new teddy bear as a replacement for their kid who had just lost an old beloved teddy that faintly resembles this one? Like, look dear, he kinda looks like Dottore, has the same colors as Dottore, is unhinged like Dottore. Why aren't you happy? The new teddy is cool, but it's just not the old one... 💔
(⚠️For those who have already read the 6.6 leaks⚠️)
I know, my dear comrades. What the future holds for us looks bleak.
Reports have arrived to tell us that soon we might be without leader. Long weeks and month, yes, for most of us it had even been many winters, we have waited for our Lord Dottore to come home to us.
Many of us have prepared for better, more glorious days to come. We saved wishes, speculated which weapons he'll use to fight our foes. What elements he'll manipulate. Yes comrades, many of us even saved a room in our teapots. Will those beds remain cold forever now?
Soon we will know. Soon we will know for sure if dark days are ahead of us. If our foes will be mocking the downfall of our master and leader. If he might never come home from his blasphemous mission, to us, his faithful Dottolings.
Comrades, I cannot offer certainty just yet. We must prepare for the worst.
And yet, we shall not loose all hope.
Trust in the cunning of our Master.
Trust in the genius of our Lord Harbinger.
And most importantly trust in the greed of Hoyoverse, who might still have an unused segment rotten somewhere.
Until we know for sure, I want you to rise, Dottonation!
My comrades, my siblings, I see the fear in your eyes. A day may come when our courage may fail and we have to let go of our foolish dreams of the Doctor finding his way home. When we have to bid our Lord Heretic a final farewell. When our foes, who have thought us to be lunatics for siding with Lord Dottore, who have called us ugly names, have won and laugh at our downfall.
But it is not this day!
This day we fight and hope together! So I bid you, hold on to your fanarts, your plushies, your fanfictions, your figurines, your cosplays and all of your saved wishes and raise them!
I'm scared of 6.6. There are rumors about leaked dialogs which I'm not going to read and avoid no matter what. But still, it makes me nervous.
Dottore means a lot to me in a weird way. Having to deal with serious health issues and illnesses for years and meeting with dismissive doctors, I found a strange comfort in the one who was, despite all the madness, still the one who was the closest to finding a cure for Eleazar.
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