#mavwin's backstory

[daughter-of-flame]

Introducing Mavwin

Hello Tolkien fandom!  I’d like to (finally) introduce my OC who’s been living rent-free in my head for nearly ten years now.

(Picture made with [WIP] Elvish Character Creator RE by Findekane on Meiker.io)

Overview:  

Born in Valinor in the Years of the Trees, Mavwin is the third child of Fëanor and Nerdanel and the couple’s only daughter.  She survives the rest of her family into the Third Age.  I’m currently writing her story, set primarily during the War of the Ring.  She actually started out as a Tenth Walker Legomance OC and that hasn’t changed.  She has, however, improved considerably as a character.  (To be fair I was like 15 when I first made her.)  Fun fact, I made her originally so I could make a LotR fic but still play with Silm lore, only to slowly realize just how much trauma would result from being so involved in all the events of the First Age on.  Sorry Mavwin, I didn’t actually mean to make your life suck so bad.

(Putting the rest in a read-more because this got really long)

Background: 

Mavwin spent her childhood and youth in the bliss of Valinor.  When Morgoth destroyed the Two Trees and brought about the Darkness, Mavwin swore the Oath of Fëanor along with her father and brothers and participated in all three Kinslayings.  In fact, she spent much of the First Age in the same fashion as her brothers.  The one difference is that unlike her brothers, and most of the rest of her family, Mavwin survived.  Much to the displeasure of greater Elven society, after the War of Wrath, Elrond and Elros, who Mavwin had fostered along with Maglor, found their foster mother and rehabilitated her with the help of her nephew Celebrimbor.  Over the course of the Second Age Mavwin lived Lindon, Eregion, and Rivendell; explored the eastern and southern reaches of Middle-earth, and fought in both wars against Sauron.  She spent most of the Third Age trying to help the descendants of Númenor until Celebrían’s capture.  From then on Mavwin stayed in Rivendell and Lothlórien until the War of the Ring.

Personality: 

Mavwin goes through some pretty drastic personality changes due to the many, many events she lives through and the great deal of trauma she accumulates.  Initially she is somewhat introverted, preferring to paint or to search the wild areas of Aman for more materials for her art.  She is perfectly capable of acting the royal when needed, however, and has a quick temper that is equally quick to cool.  She also occupies a unique place in the family as the only daughter, being somewhat coddled by her older brothers and equally relied upon by her younger brothers.  After coming to Beleriand, Mavwin gains more patience and better skill with diplomacy due to what is required of her as a leader of her people.  She learns some healing skills and is often called upon to heal her brothers during their years of wandering, but equally if not more often she fights alongside them.  During the Second Age, she initially becomes even more introverted and develops an avoidance of other Elves due to her ostracization, and her level of avoidance and introversion fluctuates throughout the rest of her life.  In the Third Age, however, she becomes increasingly subdued and somber in general due to depression, PTSD, and grief.

Fun Facts:

Mavwin’s father and mother names are Poldamíriel (Quenya, ”Strong-jewel”) and Mavoinë (Quenya, “Great Longing”).  Like most of her brothers, Mavwin used her mother-name as her cilmessë and Sindarinized it upon coming to Beleriand.  She also collected several other names over the millennia, such as Fund’ursul (Khuzdul, “Elf from the fires”) from the Dwarves of Belegost and Nogrod, Ukhthaz (Khuzdul, “Endurer”) from the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm, and Zôrzimril (Adûnaic, “Fire-jewel”) from the Men of Númenor.

Mavwin lived primarily as a painter in Valinor, learned as many different painting methods as she could over the years, and invented a couple of others.  She can do everything from sculpture painting to silk-painting to illuminating books to actual, wet-plaster-type frescoes.  She is, in fact, a massive nerd about painting, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of various materials and methods used for painting.

She speaks with a Fëanorian lisp to her Quenya.

Out of all her brothers, Mavwin was closest to Caranthir, and of her cousins Mavwin was closest to Galadriel.  The split between Fëanor and his brothers also split Mavwin and Galadriel, however, and the rift wasn’t healed until late in the Second Age.

Elrond calls her mother and his children call her grandmother.

Mavwin has a palantír.  She hasn’t used it since the Ithil stone was lost, however, out of caution that Sauron might have it.

Mavwin also has a memorial to her lost family members in Rivendell. She painted frescoes of all of them on its walls.

Mavwin suffers from PTSD and depression.

[earmo-imni]

*vibrates frantically* I have been thinking Too Much about my Tolkien OC Mavwin so if someone wants to ask me about her that would be great please I Need to infodump