#hiring the mourners from across the bay if he doesn't cut back the eldritch magics and get better at the anguished love for mortal things | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

searchingforserendipity25 · 2 years ago

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Having cracky 'Maglor part-timing as a formal mourner at funerals for a quick buck and a hot meal' thoughts turning earnest really fast. Maybe partaking in other people's misery and the construction of the temporary compassionate communities that are wakes could fix him. The fraught family fights over baked apples and bad wine are probably nostalgic etc.

#Thinking specifically of carpideiras but any concept of professional mourning #is very interesting #if you're going to devote yourself to performative lamentation an audience is ideal. if you don't have one #on account of all the atrocities a quick hustle is fine #honouring a common fisherwoman's life with the splendour of ancient talent and grief because he's a perfectionist but it rings SO fake #the first time. progressively better but mostly because conviction and sincerity are demanded by the Song of Arda #and also the tight fisted aunties in charge of the arrangements #bitch is getting bullied out of his funk by an old woman called dona elvira with a hundred old relatives dropping dead and threats of her #hiring the mourners from across the bay if he doesn't cut back the eldritch magics and get better at the anguished love for mortal things #maglor #the silmarillion

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