#about:elros

[eterunameo]

Would Maedhros have eliminated the sons of Elwing, if Maglor had not took pity on them?

Ask me HC questions: Always accepting!

This, at least, I can say definitively. No absolutely not. 

This is not necessarily out of any particular warmth or mercy Maedhros felt for others at this time, but he was in fact still putting quite a lot of thought into his engagements and how to satisfy the oath. Namely, he endeavoured to never do anything other than what was necessary to the tennants of the oath. 

Whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh,Finding keepeth or afar castethA Silmaril. This swear we all…Death we will deal him ere Day’s ending. 

So. As the oath directs, Maedhros’ mode of operation was very clear. Establish if someone was intending on keeping a silmaril from them (asking for the Silmaril) and then killing them if they were. Any action taken outside of these strictures had the risk of further increasing the harm Maedhros would be forced to do further down the road. So, since Elrond and Elros never handled the silmaril in a way that would transgress on the oath, they had nothing to do with him and should have been allowed to continue as such. 

This was the major reason why he did not wish for Maglor to keep the twins. By including them in their lives there was every possibility that either twin would somehow be caught up in the oath and at this point Maedhros’ caution and keen focus on the kind of butterfly effect web he was caught in was very high. Indeed, he fears that the deaths of Elured and Elurin might have been the catalyst that made Elwing refuse his request for the silmaril herself. 

So no! He would never have harmed Elrond and Elros, no matter what Maglor had done.