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Was thinking about Celebrimbor and Lúthien's friendship again

And then I had this thought

Sometime in the Second Age, Celebrimbor is telling Annatar all about how he was once friends with Lúthien Tinúviel. He helped her escape from Nargothrond, and turned against his uncle and father after that. He speaks of Lúthien so fondly, wishing that he could've seen her again before she died.

Meanwhile, Annatar's just having a 'Nam flashback to the time when Lúthien and Huan completely kicked his ass and took Tol-in-Gaurhoth from him, but he's desperately trying to hide it behind the most tense smile he's ever had on his face.

And Celebrimbor is just completely oblivious to his discomfort lmao

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Some silvergifting art cause I miss the fandom so much sometimes! Even tho the ring of power tv show has been such a huge let down and disappointment on all level but especially with Annatar and Tyelpe I still love them and will always draw them as I see them xD

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Finrod: Your feelings matter. Angrod: It's okay to ask for help. Aegnor: You're not a burdun. Galadriel: Murder is okay. Fingon: Murder is okay. Turgon: Murder is okay. Aredhel: Murder is okay. Argon: Murder is okay. Maedhros: Murder is okay. Maglor: Murder is okay. Celegorm: Murder is okay. Caranthir: Murder is okay. Curufin: Murder is okay. Amrod: Murder is okay. Amras: Murder is okay.

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Curufin: Who the fuck added me to a fucking group chat?

Maedhros : Language

Amrod: Yeah watch your fucking language

Celegorm : OKAY WHO TAUGHT AMROD THE FUCK WORD?

Maglor : 'The fuck word'.

Turgon: Are you stupid? You guys use the f word all the time

Caranthir : Oh my god he censored it

Celegorm : Say fuck, Turgon.

Aredhel : Do it, Turgon. Say fuck.

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Broke: Gondolin was a serious, conservative, prudish city.

Woke: The Gondolindrim were stuck in one city for 400-ish years with no Morgoth threatening them and basically nothing do to. If anyone in Middle-Earth was entertaining themselves with festivals and ragers, it was them. We're talking drunken moshpits, people getting thrown into fountains, endless romantic intrigue between most of the Lords, the whole nine yards.

Bespoke: The Gondolindrim were party animals but they all agreed that what happens in Gondolin stays in Gondolin and never talked about the parties after the fall; which is why Gondolin gets a reputation for being so serious and boring. Most of the Gondolindrim, and especially Turgon, think this is hilarious.

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being a silmarillion fan is looking at a piece of fanart featuring forty different elves who all have the same shade of either black or gold hair and instantly being able to tell by their vibe who is who and which finwhatever is which

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Its bad when Bruce is less of a party pooper than you. And I do believe that Dream fell in love with Hob in 1689 but not pursue it. You can dispute it but I will not be listening.

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"Mellondoor"

i panicked while commenting on a fic the other day & now i finally have a shipname for Narvi/Celebrimbor.

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I see Sauron being illustrated with red hair a lot, and I am just curious what the distribution of hair color headcanons is in the fandom.

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god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy

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hello hello and here is the the pirate! au from here that i cooked up so far:

melkor was a navy official turned rouge and already made a name for himself by the time he recruited mairon

he was careless and got caught( not the first time either) , his ship, Utumno, was lost in his capture and his crew scattered. he tried to sweet talk this little blacksmith into helping him escape, didn’t expect to get genuinely impressed by him and developing a crush👀.

mairon was a black smith for the navy army that no one took seriously until melkor came along. he ended up helping Melkor secure a second ship, Angband, as well as track down rest of the crew too.

mairon was the last to join the crew but rised up to the first mate position pretty quickly and everyone liked him enough

they were able to loot much more efficiently after mairon came along bc at least someone among them is finally making attack plans

mairon handles all the pawning and trading of the loots as well as keeping records, rationing, and supply managing too.

he seriously wonders how the crew made it this far without him

he’s like “im surrounded by idiots” but endearingly

Mairon’s best friend in the crew outside of melkor is thuringwethil

the feanorians are a noble family, melkor stole their prized family heirloom during his second jail break just for shits and giggles. Feanor demanded the court to do something, when he was rejected, the family seized a ship and went after captain morgoth themselves and are now also considered pirates by the court

id like to think they were forced to work together at some point much to the dismay of either crew. Melkor especially doesn’t like how the youngest of the feanorians is looking at his first mate.

seriously just give me ofmd style shenanigans

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at last as they were surrounded by the navy army, Melkor commanded mairon to take their remaining crew and flea, as a final order from his captain.

on the far away shore watching the ship they once called home ablaze, one of the crew members asks “what will we do now, captain?” it took mairon a second to realize they were referring to him.

on the day of Melkor’s execution, mairon was in the audience in disguise.

Right before the floor board falls, Melkor’s gaze met with mairon’s. He smiles to him, and mairon had to look away, blinking away the tears as the crowd erupts in cheers

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honestly feel free to add on to this!! i might come back to add more to it too, and maybe i draw up some designs as well after my finals who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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hello hello and here is the the pirate! au from here that i cooked up so far:

melkor was a navy official turned rouge and already made a name for himself by the time he recruited mairon

he was careless and got caught( not the first time either) , his ship, Utumno, was lost in his capture and his crew scattered. he tried to sweet talk this little blacksmith into helping him escape, didn’t expect to get genuinely impressed by him and developing a crush👀.

mairon was a black smith for the navy army that no one took seriously until melkor came along. he ended up helping Melkor secure a second ship, Angband, as well as track down rest of the crew too.

mairon was the last to join the crew but rised up to the first mate position pretty quickly and everyone liked him enough

they were able to loot much more efficiently after mairon came along bc at least someone among them is finally making attack plans

mairon handles all the pawning and trading of the loots as well as keeping records, rationing, and supply managing too.

he seriously wonders how the crew made it this far without him

he’s like “im surrounded by idiots” but endearingly

Mairon’s best friend in the crew outside of melkor is thuringwethil

the feanorians are a noble family, melkor stole their prized family heirloom during his second jail break just for shits and giggles. Feanor demanded the court to do something, when he was rejected, the family seized a ship and went after captain morgoth themselves and are now also considered pirates by the court

id like to think they were forced to work together at some point much to the dismay of either crew. Melkor especially doesn’t like how the youngest of the feanorians is looking at his first mate.

seriously just give me ofmd style shenanigans

- - - - - - - - - angst below- - - - - - -

at last as they were surrounded by the navy army, Melkor commanded mairon to take their remaining crew and flea, as a final order from his captain.

on the far away shore watching the ship they once called home ablaze, one of the crew members asks “what will we do now, captain?” it took mairon a second to realize they were referring to him.

on the day of Melkor’s execution, mairon was in the audience in disguise.

Right before the floor board falls, Melkor’s gaze met with mairon’s. He smiles to him, and mairon had to look away, blinking away the tears as the crowd erupts in cheers

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honestly feel free to add on to this!! i might come back to add more to it too, and maybe i draw up some designs as well after my finals who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I would love to hear some of your Melkor x Mairon first meeting (in Arda) headcanons!

Ooooo but of course! Brace yourself this might get long

First off, some basic characterization for Mairon. I don’t view him as this shy, sweet angelic figure who was so insecure and always begging for Aule’s approval, who Melkor corrupted and manipulated into joining him. I like to give Mairon a bit more agency and credit than that. Mairon was the most talented of all Aule’s Maiar, if not all of the Maiar in Almaren. And he damn well knew it, he was completely and totally aware that he was the best of the best.

But at the end of the day, he was still just a Maia. A servant. And Mairon wanted more than that. He wanted not just to be heard, but to be listened to, obeyed. He wanted to have control of what he created, not just be assigned tasks. Mairon wanted power, plain and simple. He wanted to be more than what he was created to be.

Melkor was able to smell that desire for power from a mile away. But he didn’t just cold open with a job offer for Mairon, instead he actually listened to him and empathized, and just generally made Mairon feel like he wasn’t wrong for wanting more than his intended purpose. This was all part of Melkor’s plan, so that Mairon didn’t see him as the enemy and would be more receptive to his influence. What was not part of Melkor’s plan was genuinely enjoying Mairon’s company and slowly falling for him. Because it wasn’t just Mairon who felt seen for the first time, but Melkor too; for the first time in his eternal life he actually felt understood by someone.

So Melkors original plan of convincing Mairon to join The Dark Side (tm) is put on the back burner in order to make room for his new plan: wooing Mairon. And he makes an absolute utter fool of himself. I am talking stumbling, tripping, and falling over his words whenever he’s talking to Mairon bc “oh shit oh shit oh shit I genuinely like someone and don’t know what to do oh fuck what if I fuck this up.” This is also accompanied by very cringey flirting attempts that Mairon is too dense to pick up on. But hey Mairon fondly called him an idiot while laughing to himself when Melkor tried to lean on a doorframe all suave and cool but he ended up knocking over a shelf of various projects, so something must be working.

But yea, Mairon is actually the only person Melkor didn’t have to manipulate, persuade, or use his powers on to get him to join his service. Bc Mairon didn’t really need convincing and Melkor felt like the first true friend he ever had.

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Mairon: I’ll take a venti Americano with seven shots of espresso please.

Melkor, the barista: damn bitch just do crack.

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True love is when you name your siege engine after your lover's "hammer" because damn he railed you so good back in the day

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absolutely in love with Silmarillion art depicting Melkor as Peter Steele-adjacent and Mairon as this evil little fire haired twink. It's not what Tolkien would have wanted (probably), but it's what the public needs

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the first time Sauron tried to create a banner for himself went very wrong. a dark lord he may be, an artist he is not. Melkor gets banished to the couch that day