Rare Characters and Rare Pairs - Multifandom

A blog for all kind of rare pairs I ship and rare characters I'd like to see more of Fandoms: Silmarillion, Lotr, the witcher games and so on

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Friendship: Celebrimbor and Narvi

A rough sketch of Celebrimbor and Narvi in the forge, chatting about the current affairs of the world, while Celebrimbor is forging something that looks like a knife :D

I actually liked Narvis design in Rings of Power and it's quite sad that they only added one scene of them in the series. I tried to capture the design of Narvi in this scene, but it doesn't really look like him now. I've also tried to use a younger version of Celebrimbor's actor as a reference for Celebrimbor and gave him some long hair. But he doesn't look like him either. Also used some references for Celebrimbor's pose and bellows.

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Rare pair: Mairon x Maeglin

Recently I came across someone's post on reddit about shipping Mairon and Maeglin. Honestly I never gave Sauron or Maeglin much thought before, but this person envisioned Sauron as asexual and that caught my attention, because it allowed for a different version of Mairon I haven't seen in fandom before.

So here is emotionally numb asexualMairon x resigned demisexualMaeglin and a little bit of story idea that came along with the pair:

Maeglin didn't die during the fall of Gondolin, altough he was gravely injured, hence the scar on his neck in the right picture above. He fell but was saved by Thuringwethil and brought back to Angband. There he meets Mairon, who makes it very clear (after Maeglins recovery) that from now on this hopeless, desolated place will be his home and orders him to join the other smiths in the smithy to forge weapons for Melkors forces.

Depending on the events in the book this could be the time after Mairon was defeated by Luthien and Huan (I have to research that) and so he is also not in a good shape, both mentally as well as physically. Especially mentally since the loss of one of the Silmarilli has a particularly negative impact on his master's mental state, which in return means that more responsibilities are added to Mairon's usual task list.

Since Maeglin is a capable smith Mairon selects him to work on special projects from time to time, where they get to know each other step by step. It's a bit of a "redemption" story, where Maeglin is confronted with all of his past mistakes and has to come to terms with them and make the best out of his situation and Mairon get's the chance to reconnect with someone on an emotional level that isn't Melkor.