#i made melkor FLOOFY

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Day #18 - Dork Lords

Hehehehehehe *Fluffs your Angbang*

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Soooo.....

I kinda like eldritch, biblically accurate angbang, but like really their floofy for each other. Their really soft ancient terrors.

The Ainur function similarly to Aeons in Gnosticism, kinda. Their all manifestations of a specific aspect of Eru's will, and often, as with the Valar, are born in complementary pairs, as equals and opposites. Because I can, I see Mairon as the other end of Melkor's syzygy. Order and Chaos. Anyhow, I view the Ainur as more metaphysical beings, and as such, their relationships. I don't mean this as an absence of sexuality, but I mean the underlying nature of their mind, to me, would work differently, them being divine beings. They are primordial incarnations of specific divine attributes.

I think the intensity of emotions in their relationships would be well beyond mortal feeling, and the connection involved between the members of a syzygy would be akin to the divine union talked about in regards to Gnostic Aeons, or nearly any other divine dyad.

Melkor and Mairon would enable the existence of and complete each other. They literally coexist and indwell.

So, like the soul mates trope up to an eleven or something.

Also, the Idea of Tolkein's eternal flame is reminiscent of the progenitive nous in Christian, Greco-roman and Gnostic tradition. It's god's genitive, or creative capacity. All life is endowed with a bit of it, it is the quality of god's love and desire. Anyhow, each syzygy cocreates from eachother. Interestingly, in Gnosticism the fall happens when one Aeon tries to create outside her syzygy.

Melkor is the destructive and chaotic aspect of Eru's will, and Sauron is the aspect concerned with order, preservation and control. They fit together prefectly despite being opposites.

I imagine them as quite loving, particularly Melkor.

I know some people write Mairon as the devoted one, but for me it's the opposite. Melkor is very doting and caring, while Mairon is quite dreadful. Mairon has an innate comprehension of the innerworkings of nearly everything, save Eru himself. He has the gift of foresight, to a degree, and so is a great strategist. Melkor has what Mairon lacks in power, and with Mairon's direction, can get shit done. The absence of one would imbalance the other. So oof, the whole void ordeal.

Also, I see the roles the Valar play in the Silm as heavily symbolic, as with most divine figures in religious texts. Death/destruction is very much a symbol of transformation, and Melkor, being endowed with a share in the powers of all Valar, seems to mediate the relationship between each idea, destroying the state of one thing so it can pass into the next.

Of course, Tolkien wrote Melkor in a way as so his goal was the world's destruction, but in many religions the world's destruction is the most ultimate and conclusive sign of reunification with god, or the coming of heaven, and the apocalypse itself is seen as a holy act.

Basically I see Melkor as a representation of death and transformation. He is the final destruction of the world in order for the souls return to Eru. Anything mortal that follows him is 'destroyed' in it's mortality, and would surely 'die'.

anyhow, back to basic headcanons.

They both took many different forms, sometimes daily, before they lost that ability. When Melkor was confined to a damaged, finite form it aided in driving him mad.

To me, Melkor wouldn't lash out at Mairon as he was going insane, but would instead overly rely on him, entrusting him with more and more tasks he couldn't accomplish. To me the Anu are like paragons of whatever idea they represent, and rely heavily on connection. As Melkor becomes more and more isolated, he is driven further into madness, as he is a being made of connection, even if his function is to wreck shit. Mairon has always been his only true connection, being his syzygy, but now he would fully rely on Mairon for all his interaction. He can't go blow up mountains or yell at orcs anymore. He just sits and lays in Mairons lap, while Mai sings to him.

.....That was long.