I just want to see how many of us there are out there

Reblog if you know who Maedhros is

I have a feeling this won’t get a lot of notes, as the majority of people only know characters from the movies (which is totally fine) but I just wanted to see.

So much love for this character!

If I don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

My favorite ginger trash can

I think my favorite bit of nitpicky Silm lore is that Fingon, in canon, does not have a wife. A wife is not implied, never mentioned, and the “Fingon’s wife” concept never was and literally never will be an “unnamed wife” situation. …. because she does not exist. Note that, in published Silm, it is canon that Gil-galad was legally Fingon’s son, but it is also canon that Fingon never had a wife. The one argument I hear about this is “But Fingon sent his wife and son to the Havens!”, but… I’d also like to point out that if you’re under this impression, you’re probably getting your information from a badly sourced wiki, because uh, technically? That’s not canon. What is canon is this: “Great was the lamentation in Hithlum when the fall of Fingolfin became known, and Fingon in sorrow took the lordship of the house of Fingolfin and the kingdom of the Noldor; but his young son Ereinion (who was after named Gil-galad) he sent to the Havens.” - Excerpt From: J. R. R. Tolkien. “Lord of the Rings 0.5 - The Silmarillion.”

It’s canon that he sent Gil-galad to the Havens. It is not canon that he sent any wife to the Havens. She does not exist in the canon story. When we combine this information from the published Silmarillion, plus the fact that he is stated to not have a wife or children in unpublished works…

Technically, any situation in which he is portrayed with a wife is an AU, or canon divergent at best, which frankly is incredibly hilarious to me, because we all know that Christopher backtracked with labeling Gil-galad as his son after Silm was published, but the fact that it’s still canon that he doesn’t have a wife, despite him having a son in canon… that’s incredibly powerful, sir.

LaCE says that for elves sex = marriage. Which means that if Fingon has a biological son than he must, presumably, have a spouse capable of childbirth, so it looks like our three options here are:

wait for it

*cringes eternally*

‘’I have 200 pages of lines’’

"I just drew Gandalf with a pipe, that seemed safe" SOBBING

why indeed

the fairest stars

What if Angrist was a little tougher, and Beren and Lúthien managed to steal two Silmarils from Morgoth instead of one? Somehow I’ve already written NINE parts of this unhinged bullet point AU here and decided it was time for a fresh post to avoid that one getting too long.

Where we left off: Lúthien has been negotiating with Mandos like a pro, Maglor is nearly-but-not-quite-dead in Menegroth, Thingol has taken one Silmaril from him, Fingon has the other Silmaril and ditched Curufin outside the Girdle even though they did some bonding on the Worst Road Trip, and people are still upset about Celegorm’s death. YES I am well aware that the pipeline from the fairly normal first sentence of the post to this mess is insane.

Part the eleventh! Maedhros gets to be a main character again after being sidelined for the last two parts.

He isn't enjoying it.

(Content warning for descriptions of the general aftermath of trauma, plus a briefly mentioned and not described in any detail panic attack.)

Part 12! Military Stuff is Plotted.

(Another content warning for the whole trauma/delusional episode situation.)

On a scale from Turgon to Elrond, how well did “raising your sibling’s offspring/descendant in your hidden valley and having them fall in love with your daughter” turn out

On a scale of Thingol to Elrond, how well did “setting an incredibly difficult quest for your daughter’s mortal suitor” turn out

On a scale from Dior to Elrond (detouring briefly at Elwing and Maglor) how well did “raising twin half-elf boys” turn out

On a scale from Maedhros to Elrond, how well did “gathering a group of people to go defeat the Dark Lord” turn out

Elrond is so successful in everything because he’s not King

RIP to everyone else, but Elrond is different

Tolkien’s universe is full of oddly specific repeating motifs and for some reason Elrond does ALL OF THEM better than his predecessors:

Elrond looked at all the major historical figures of the first age and said: “I’ll be you, but successful”

Okay so I did not know only a year had passed between these events. It was Maedhros who negotiated the land things, I believe. 

Dude went from half-dead in Angband right back to being a fantastic leader within ONE YEAR and honestly, dude was like, prolly writin letter and getting briefings while in a hospital bed, dude,,,,

Sometimes you make the most momentous discoveries that shake the very foundations of your headcanons.

I was on Tolkien Gateway the other day, looking up Azaghâl’s page, when I notice the official art of him for the first time. 

My dude has a black hair laced with gold. Black hair. Laced with gold! Much like a certain someone else we all know and love. From this, I can only conclude Bór also wore gold in his dark hair, just to complete the trio.

I can now no longer think of the Union of Maedhros without wheezing over the absolute hilarity of Maedhros getting all three of his best friends in the same room for once, and they all three have the simultaneous realization Maedhros has Only One Type Of Friend.

Thus does the Union of Maedhros become the Union of Maedhros’ Friends Dragging Him For Filth Over This.

“O Children

Forgive us now for what we’ve done

It started out as a bit of fun”

- O Children by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds