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Isn't being your 1000% platonic best buddy's loyal vassal just the least homoerotic thing you can ever do? Maedhros thinks so. He's never done anything homosexual in his life.

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Having one-sided beef with one specific character is so funny. Like I can see a million characters who do terrible things and be like “whatever.” But then there’s one specific motherfucker who pissed me off so bad that I’d run them over at a red light if given the chance.

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Celegorm and Amras and Amrod helping Maedhros re-figure out how to do basic wilderness survival (starting fires, making traps, making cordage, idk I don't actually do Wilderness Stuff) with only one hand.

(The kind of thing that all of Feanor and Nerdanel's children learned during family traveling time in their youth, and that Maedhros helped all his little brothers learn, and that he is extremely ill-tempered about re-learning under his little brothers' direction.)

(Alternatively, Maedhros broke his arm on such a trip when he was elf!12 or whatever, so he already has at least a basic theory on how to do it all. But let's be honest that's less interesting.)

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Maedhros by http://tim42875.lofter.com/

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I feel like 99% of the Silmarillion fans forget that Fëanor was actually a very likeable guy for most of his life.

That is literally a significant part of why people followed him. A lot of people loved and admired him. He wasn't mean to random people, and definitely not "a toxic husband/father." The whole point of his story is that he was universally beloved, which is what made his fall so impactful.

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Celebrimbor! i had fun trying to make him look like others in the family but also look unique but also like Fëanor. (YAY TATOO)

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Love kidnap fam? Hate it? Ambivalent? Great! Your thoughts are wanted.

I am collecting survey data as part of my research on the "Living Legendarium", i.e., how the legends of Arda, from their earliest drafts by Tolkien to the posthumously published Silmarillion edited by Christopher Tolkien to the creative engagements by fans, are inherently indeterminate and mutable, inviting many and diverse interpretations. 

This portion of the study focuses on the various ways that fans of the Silmarillion understand and imagine the relationship between Maedhros, Maglor, Elrond, and Elros: the "kidnap fam". 

The resulting paper will be presented at Mereth Aderthad on July 19 2025 and published afterwards on the Silmarillion Writers' Guild. 

COMPLETE THE SURVEY until June 27, 2025.

Even if you're not completing the survey, reblogs are appreciated!

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It’s that time of the year again, when I want to draw Tolkien’s characters

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Maedhros concept art.

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Maedhros sketch

(Too many sketches, not enough finished work. Story of my life.)

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Okay, you probably know by now that when someone is my favourite, there's no escaping my portraits.

So have another Maedhros - this time as a baby with his mum (and yep, I'm on a mission to revise old works!)

I hope you like it, and sorry for my one-track mind 🙈

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble, Teepublic and Threadless

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Please, this #mamaposting but with Curufin and Tyelperinquar? 🧝‍♀️

Seu desejo é uma ordem!

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Every time I see art of Maedhros with scars from angband, a) I love it, but b) it makes me want to figure out *what actually happened*

And I can never figure that out

Even the fic I wrote to try and figure that out ended up leaving a lot of details fuzzy

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Reconciliation in Valinor

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Y’know how sometimes historians can be really petty.

What if Fëanor’s out and about happily doing his own thing, but refused Pengolodh’s requests for an interview. So he wrote that Fëanor’s still in the Halls just to Be Like That.

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You taught me the courage of stars before you left How light carries on endlessly, even after death With shortness of breath You explained the infinite And how rare and beautiful it is to even exist

— Sleeping At Last - “Saturn”

Maglor, wandering the shores. Yes, I read the bit about him singing in pain and regret beside the waves all the time, I just don’t buy it. Life is beautiful, and it goes on.