#aüle

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

arda content but it's just the infinite shenanigans of two elves in aman pestering the smith god to see their dwarves again until either he gives up and lets them or the world ends

[fan-randomness-mess]

TROP Fanfic Prompt

Sauron repents and becomes an ~Istar~

After watching the entire series and reading all the theories, headcanons and AUs my Plot Bunny got overexcited and wouldn’t leave me alone untill I shared this with others.

With this in mind, this prompt is completely up for adoption and fanwork, just tag me, please.

Summary:

Au in which Mairon got on that raft, and he did so trying to get to Valinor and repent for his sins as Sauron and he made it.

(Expands from that moment to the end of the LOTR)

Once in Valinor, he gets judged and the Valar decide that his punishment shall be what he always wanted: The healing of ME. He’ll join the Istari in the aid of the peoples of Middle Earth, so they may recover from the horrors Morgoth and him caused.

Still, the Valar they aren't stupid, he can't be allowed to be the most powerful being in ME and go around showing off and Maiar-handling people into doing stuff like he did as Sauron. So his Istar Terms and Conditions are a bit more strict than most.

Instead of just being forbidden of expressing his powers like the other Istari in the order the Valar decide to separate his Maiar powers from his “fëa” (I know  Aïnur don’t really work like this, but if Tolkien said he could bind his power to the One Ring to the point of being formless without it, I say the Valar con do something similar).

His fëa gets bound to a mortal form (Halbrand’s) which will be prone to all weaknesses known to mortals, except aging. (None of the Valar want to be responsible for reincarnating the fucker every 50 years). He still can die from wounds, but it would only mean he would get thrown back to Valinor for the Valar to reincarnate. (And no fucking way is Mairon, as either Sauron or Halbrand, going to give them that satisfaction)

His Aïnur powers get casted into a ring.  Which is then given to Curumo/ Saruman for safe-keeping. (See where I am going with this?). 

At first it all goes well, the six Istari get thrown to ME and things go great, it’s grueling work, specially for Mairon, who still has a few bad habits he has to break from (bad habits = being a fascist industrialist cunt), but with some nudges and punches he starts getting the right idea about how thinks must work like in ME. One of his first tries to do good leads him to Eregion where he finds about the elves plight and he decides to help them taking a page from Aüle’s book about how rings can contain power and certainly they can also amplify it? (Yes, this can be when he meets Galadriel, who tries to bash his head in with an anvil, road runner style, but gets stopped by both Elrond and Gandalf)

But then, lo and behold someone goes dark AND IT’S NOT HIM.

Turns out giving a ring with extra power to Saruman just before sending him to get a look at the chaos that is ME was not a great idea, cause as an absurd amount of Aüle’s apprentices, he has a weaknesses for authoritarianism and an unhealthy fascination for Melkor’s “Mein Kampf”.  And he’s decided to use the ring as a means for amplifying his powers and take his spot in the Book of Dark Overlords.

From here on the story goes on much like we know it to go, but instead of Sauron being the Lord of the Ring, the title goes to Saruman, who can get some new uncool nickname that referes to his innability to make a single wise choice, and Sauron taking up a role as a proto-Dunedaïn, that gets voluntered to partake in all of Gandalf’s shite-schemes and then some, in his quest for peace and healing not just ME, but himself from Melkor’s wounds.

[slumbering-lore]

Aüle: Why would you want to join forces with Melkor?

Aüle: Did he seduce you with his power? His resources? His forces? Did he tempt you with riches?

Mairon: No.

Curumo: He probably seduced Mai with his half naked form and goth makeup.

Mairon: Yes.

Aüle:

Curumo:

Mairon: :)

[slumbering-lore]

Aüle: *makes Dwarves*

Dwarves: *is disapproved by Eru*

Aüle: *teaches Mairon the best crafts and makes him his most learned student*

Mairon: *gets seduced by Melkor*

Aüle: *sends Curumo from his side to defeat his previous student*

Curumo: *gets seduced by the ring*

Aüle:

Aüle: I'm not doing anything anymore.

[slumbering-lore]

Meanwhile, in Aüle's halls-

Melkor: You have a nice ass.

Mairon: ... Thanks?

Melkor: I mean, you have a nice ass...

Mairon: You already said it...?

Melkor:

Melkor: Please accept my awkward flirting I have no idea what I'm doing...

[da3antra]

I love the fact that when Aüle made Dwarves, he made them so powerful and cool that the Rings could only corrupt them by making them super greedy to the point of self-destruction (which every other race already had problems with anyway--looking at you and yours, Fëanor)