#ëol the dark elf

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

Ëol: Lómion?

Maeglin: That’s right. It’s me. Your son.

Maeglin: And it’s Maeglin, dad

Ëol: No. L-Ó-M-I-O-N . I named you…

Maeglin: You ruined my life!

Ëol: How could I ruin your life? I wasn’t even there!

[bisognamorire]

Turgon: 'Whether you will it or will it not, Dark Elf, here I am King and my doom is law. This choice only is given to you: to abide here, or to die here.'

Ëol:

[kanafinwe-makalaure]

There is a soul stuck in Mandos, one who never talks to anyone, and is never approached. He sits in a corner with his back turned and his arms around his knees and his dark hair obscuring his face like seaweed heavy with water. He feels like a mistake, like someone who should not be, who was born from darkness into darkness, a corrupted soul ripped forcibly from the vacuum of non-existence. There was never love or belonging in his life no matter how far he went to try and make his claim. Nothing in the world has ever been for him, because things cannot belong to someone who is naught.

Celegorm has been deemed ready to be re-embodied, long, long after his youngest two brothers, but before he leaves Mandos, he goes up to that small, miserable creature in the corner and sits down next to him.

“Your mother must miss you terribly,” Celegorm says. “You’ve been here for so long.”

He receives no reply, and nudges the boy's shoulder. “Lómion,” he says gently. “Come with me.”

Maeglin turns his head, his dark eyes perpetually moist and red-rimmed as they are, and mumbles, “You saw the tapestries; you know what I have done. I will not claim a place out there and steal it from another.”

“You know what I have done,” Celegorm says with twinkling, smiling eyes. “Perhaps you need someone like me to lead you out of this place, no? And to accompany you home? For everything that you have done, I have done ten things that are worse.”

Maeglin buries his face in between his thin, bony knees. “Not everything. You have abandoned your mother and kept her waiting, but I, I have damned mine to her fate. Had it not been for me, she might have left my father, and had it not been for me - well. I stood where she was supposed to stand, and vice versa.”

“It’s not your fault,” said Celegorm firmly. “You are not to blame for the actions of your father, even if you are to blame for your own. What he did, none of it was your fault.”

Lómion sobs against the fabric of his trousers; Celegorm places a hand on his back, square, large and heavy. Its size makes the younger elf look like a child. He sits with him for a while, allows him to weep. Then, he squeezes gently.

“Come, boy,” he says, fatherly words, but his voice lacks all the cold authority of Ëol’s; it is warm and gentle like a campfire in a cold night, and it does not beat Lómion down, instead it picks him up and lifts him and makes him feel as though he could do anything. Celegorm’s grip is gentle enough not to hurt, but firm enough to assure Lómion he will not let him fall.

Lómion nods and wipes his tears with the back of his hand, and he allows Celegorm to help him to his feet.

Together, they step out of the Halls of Mandos and begin their way home, to meet Aredhel.

[theelvenhaven]

I lowkey have a love-hate relationship with the Teleri. On one hand I love the sea to an extent and you know aquamarine life and such, but the swans. Is swear if they fckin bite they’ll be my dinner. Also Finrod ‘,:) On a side note, I wish there had been more members of the Avari and the Vanya that we know of not just Elenwe and Eol as well as some humans. Like had any Men survived in the far east? What about the Land of the Sun or the Dark Land? So many questions!

01.12.2021

LOL yeah swans can be assholes 😅 so that’s understandable! But I’d imagine were you an elf the relationship between you and the swans would be so much different. Considering elves have such a strong connection with nature and it’s creatures

I do wish that there had been more Avari and Vanyar as well! Especially when it comes to the Avari as we really got the short end of the stick with it being Ëol who we were introduced too 😅

As for the Vanyar it would’ve been nice to have more than mere mentions of Ingwë and Indis and Elenwë and Ingwion. Seeing more of them interaction wise would’ve been pleasant