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Favorite Eldritch Elrond:
Ethical necromancer
Melian-themed hidden city fuckery
Eldritch horror (scary)
Eldritch horror (actually really nice)
Esoteric ringbearer powers
Uncanny valley facial features
Bird™️
Au where Elros's spirit can't entirely move on from Arda and he becomes a ghost, though only his family can see him. Now, as a wise king of men, he decides to split his time between the most important and worthy pursuits he can think of:
Mother-son bonding time (spying on people for Elwing so they can gossip)
Father-son bonding time (listening to Earendil infodump about boats)
Father-son bonding time (trying to annoy Maglor into rejoining civilization)
Father-son bonding time (giving Maedhros pep-talks in Mandos)
Brotherly bonding time (annoying his brother during important council meetings)
So how do you think Earendil reacts to getting sick?
Think about it. My guy is working year round and spends most of his time high in the sky (very cold, thin air) and the void (generally unhealthy) and he's half-human, after all. He has to get sick sometimes.
Like, do you call in sick from your job as the star of high hope? Do you take an elf advil and just suck it up? Do you ask your divine patrons (Varda and Ulmo) to fix you? Do they freak out about you being sick? Do they understand people well enough to understand how diseases work???
"average elf breaks up 3 fights involving their siblings per year" factoid actually just statistical error. Maedhros the Tall, who is solely responsible for managing Feanor and Nerdanel's pack of hellspawn, and who breaks up over 1000 fights involving his siblings every day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Maedhros, late First Age:
I love the idea that Annatar came to Middle-Earth, fully ready to manipulate mansplain malewife his way through the remaining Finweans. Because there's nothing Finweans like more than familly infighting, and he was going to take full advantage of that! He was going to divide and conquer, turn them against each other, and then feast on their power and admiration. He had a plan. It was a good plan!
And then he gets to Middle Earth and realizes that isn’t going to happen. Because like, look at his options. Galadriel?? Not even a chance. She’ll eat him for dinner and then complain he’s under seasoned. Gil-Galad?? Well that seemed like a great option until Elrond came out and starting whispering in his ear! (Seriously, getting beat as an evil, queer-coded advisor by a half-elf?? How humiliating!) Celebrimbor?? There are no thoughts in that man’s brain except for forging. No political ambitions. No exploitable character flaws. Just the simple, pure desire to make metal do cool things.
How’s he supposed to work with this??? God Morgoth had it so easy, the First Age Finweans were practically jumping at the opportunity to fight each other. But Annatar has to deal with this "family unity and friendship" bullshit. Ughhhh fine, he’ll manipulate Celebrimbor and make a new plan, whatever. He just needs like. An evil Advil and a nap first.
Most Petty Finwean
Feanor (self-explanatory)
Maglor (dramatic bitch)
Caranthir (the tax fraud is personal)
Turgon (peak petty suburban dad energy)
Aredhel (the arrow in your arm is personal)
Galadriel (self-explanatory)
Finarfin (who do you think Galadriel got it from?)
Okay but clearly it's Blorbofinwe (put it in the tags)
A List of Entirely Serious Suggestions for Punishing Maedhros Feanorian (by Elwing)
Throw him off of a cliff and turn him into a bird. Leave him that way until he’s thought about what he’s done.
Make him personally responsible for feeding every seagull in Valinor.
Make him deliver all of my mail by hand every day. At the top of my tower. Up the 500 step spiral staircase.
Put him in charge of planning every major event in Valinor for the next century.
Actually no give someone completely irresponsible that job and him Maedhros his assistant. I want to see him squirm.
Have him compose a poem about the greatness of Elu Thingol’s line entirely in Sindarin, with traditional verse structure and rhyming patterms.
What if I just dive-bombed him as a bird would that work?? Can I take some of his hair as a trophy??
Let him stay and man my lighthouse so Earendil and I can spend all out time together on vingliot.
Send him to Middle Earth to be a bodyguard for Elrond. Tell him I will be personally reviewing his job performance when Elrond sails.
Send him to the Void and have him 1v1 Morgoth. I think it would be productive for both of them.
Give me exactly one (1) of his teeth. He can choose which one but he has to get it out himself.
Fic Concept: Feanor escapes from Mandos/the Void to reclaim his third silmaril and fulfill the Oath. He is determined, he is angry, he is not going to let anything get in his–
Wait a second. Who's that with the Silmaril?? That's not an Ainur. He doesn't really look like an elf. You– yeah you. What are you? No shut up that's not rude to ask. Half-elf. I'm sorry, half elvish and half what? What do you mean mortal men??? Where do men come from? Everywhere??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
Okay no, no. Feanor is not going to be distracted. He's here for the Silmaril. He's here to break the Oath and, actully, that's a REALLY well-made necklace, where did you get that. Dwarves?? What's a dwarf? More mortals? AULE'S FOLK??? A WHOLE NEW SPECIES OF SMITHS????
Okay the Silmaril can wait this "Earendil" person needs to tell him EVERYTHING he knows about dwarves right now.
So I’ve seen lots of interesting Silm discourse, but there is one important question I think we’ve left unanswered for far too long. What song did Fingon sing to find Maedhros??? Personally I’d go with this song. It sounds rather elvish, and I think it reflects the emotional depth of the situation, and what Fingon must've felt passing through Morgoth's hell to find someone he cared so deeply about, but I am also curious to hear your opinions.
Silm concept I find extremely compelling: Maedhros with orcish features post-Thangorodrim. Sharp teeth, slit pupils, sunlight sensitivity, grayish skin, etc.* Fngon gets him off the mountain, and something is clearly wrong with him– everyone thinks its just the scarring at first, but it goes much, much deeper. He's not the same elf who was captured all those years ago. Some argue he's not really an elf at all anymore.
Just... the implications. The familial consequences. The political consequences. The fact that it might make the Noldor face the fact that the line between elf and orc is much thinner and less defined than they would like. No one wants to acknowledge that a "good elf" might be able to become an orc. No one wants to acknowledge that an orc might still have feelings, morals, etc. And Maedhros is caught in the middle of all of that.
Family-Related Problems Elrond Expected to Have:
People pearl clutching about his biological parents being mixed species
And then immediatly backtracking when he mentions his adoptive parents were actual murderers
Dealing with having lordship over different groups of elves
(Who have very different cultural traditions)
(And also sometimes hate each other)
Beng forced to explain the entire history of the First Age when people ask what house he hails from
Having to regularly explain that no, he is not a king and no, he does not want to be one, and no, he's very happy being a herald and just wants to be left alone please Eru
Family-Related Problems Elrond Did Not Expect to Have:
People loudly thirsting over his dead ancestors in front of him
And then telling him how much he looks like them
Best plan for rescuing Celebrimbor from Sauron:
Galadriel, unarmed but very angry
Gil-Galad, armed with a harp and a book of prayers to Manwe
Elrond, along with the largest dog they can find in Middle Earth
Glorfindel, heavily armed and very shiny
Finwe, Ingwe, and Elwe debating whether they should stay in Valinor:
Finwe: I understand your concerns, but just think! This could be the only chance our peoples have to live in peace.
Elwe: You are right... Though I have my misgivings about the Valar, at least we will no longer be subject to the cruel whims of our ancient enemy. I will follow you, my friend, and trust your judgement.
Finwe:
Elwe:
Elwe: Ingwe, are you alright?
Ingwe, staring at Manwe and Varda: I think we should stay here forever and forever <3
Finwe: Sure thing buddy.
Elu Thingol when the incomprehensible eldritch abomination in the woods starts hitting on him:
POV: you are some poor, random human shopkeeper trying to survive in late first-age Beleriand. An eight foot tall ef with a face that is 70% scar tissue and 30% murderous intent just walked in. He is followed by two small children. He comes up to your counter and asks you how much human children need to eat.
The small children are definitely not human.
Glorfindel, still relatively new to Rivendell, is walking around and familiarizing himself with the grounds. At this point, he’s used to finding statues of various figures from First Age. Turgon sits in a corner overlooking one of the valley’s waterfalls. Fingolfin stands a careful watch over the main courtyard. Finrod plays his harp at the entrance to the gardens.
But on this day, Glorfindel takes a few different turns and ends up in a part of the city he hasn’t seen yet. He sees an unfamiliar statue– and he’s angry because why would Elrond ever have a statue of Him at Rivendell?? Why would he be worth remembering at all, let alone in a place of peace and healing like this?? So he gets closer, because he can’t quite believe his lord would do something so insensitive. And then he gets close enough to read the plaque. And he feels ashamed, because of course. Of course.
He turns around and goes back to more familiar territory, but he sends up a prayer to the Valar first, asking them to keep watch over the soul of Celebrimbor, who deserved a far better hand than the one that fate dealt him. Poor boy.