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[sesamenom]

day 1 of @tolkiengenweek: fingon & maeglin in mandos.

a little while ago i did this piece and @tanoraqui mentioned maeglin in the tags. anyways i was thinking about which nolofinwion would be best at dealing w maeglin's trauma.

turgon means well, but maeglin probably doesn't want to talk to him. aredhel is a) his mom and b) part of the traumatic backstory so that would also be difficult. argon never even made it past the grinding ice (and frankly i havent figured out his personality enough to do one of these). fingon, however, kept nicely to the theme of eldest son & youngest grandson and made sense trauma-wise.

so anyways here's fingon helping maeglin deal with the aftermath of his time in morgoth's captivity and the trauma of losing aredhel.

[mandhos]

[elfinfen]

Maeglin for intea ✨ handsome prince with a twilight soul

[moredhel]

"But Maeglin prospered and grew great among the Gondolindrim, praised by all, and high in the favour of Turgon; for if he would learn eagerly and swiftly all that he might, he had much also to teach."

[asinoeiv]

Those are a few of the Maeglin design stuff I'm doing for my portfolio. A lot still needs some rework and a nicer layout, but you could probably call it a sneak peek. If you have opinions about your favorite version of Anguirel or the casual clothes, please tell me I still have to decide from what version I need to make a proper turn around/render.

[ayaosguqin]

“A Mother’s grief “

Aredhel, uncertain ,trembles at the specter of tomorrow's unknown path. Feeling alone .

[wisesnail]

Yes, yes, if I were a Gondolindrim I would be super pissed at him… But I'm not, so I can be controversial and say that I kin. da love for Maeglin T_T

Quick speed paint of the Lord of the Mole <;

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless

[hedgehogoftime]

It's kinda funny how Silmarillion fans characterize Maeglin as this poor misunderstood goth kid who was ostracized by Gondolin, when Tolkien goes out of his way to describe how Maeglin was beloved of both his family and the people of Gondolin and that he rose high in honor and acclaim, but Idril was the only one who mistrusted him and that was because he was in creepy obsessive incesty love with her.

Like, it's a pretty straightforward case of "this guy has so much good stuff and has so much going for him but was corrupted by greed for the one thing he couldn't have". It's the same thing that ruined Feanor and his sons and so many others.

I'm not saying that what was done to him by Morgoth wasn't a tragedy, but he was also the architect of his own destruction.

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

Ok but consider those “Maeglin Finds and Lives With The Feanorians” fics but Baby! Maeglin was taught all their names by badass “balls of steel” Aredhel, so he thinks their nicknames are their actual names.

So Maeglin, upon meeting the Lord of Himring, is timid and respectful but confidently calls Maedhros One-Handed, Famed Kinslayer, “Lord Neylo”.

[thestaroffeanor]

Lord of the Mole, Maeglin

[nevui-penim-miruvorrr]

I want to make another drawing of this scene for so long

This is from 2017

This one from 2016

And this from 2015

[sesamenom]

AU where Aredhel founded Gondolin and Eol nabbed Turgon (and little idril)

(click for quality)

[mandhos]

Fate of Anguirel and Anglachel the twin swords

[windrelyn]

Quick drawing. Maeglin for @swordsmithofgondolin

Thank you so much for your kind words and your Glorestor fanart! I've read your message many times, and it gave me more motivation to continue drawing. I'm glad my art could bring you happiness. And it's good to hear that you read Akayona and like Kye-sook (he means a lot to me)

[serene-faerie]

I've just figured out why Maeglin makes me so uncomfortable. Why I just hate him so much.

It's because his behavior towards Idril is almost uncomfortably reminiscent of how creeps in the real world behave.

For the most part, The Fall of Gondolin is a fantasy: Elven cities, armies of dragons and Balrogs and orcs, all of that is very much fantastical.

But Maeglin's behavior towards Idril is unfortunately a very real thing that happens in the real world. There are plenty of real-life people who are creepy towards those they're interested in, and when the target of their interest doesn't reciprocate, or even dislikes their attentions, then those creepy people will retaliate by destroying their lives as revenge.

Sure, there are no real-world creeps going around and destroying hidden cities because they were rejected. But real-world creeps will turn friends and family against their target, stalk their target, maybe even get their target fired from their job. They basically destroy their personal lives as some kind of twisted revenge.

And by giving away Gondolin's location to Morgoth, Maeglin basically destroys Idril's life.

And no amount of personal tragedies in his life can excuse his entitlement towards his own cousin.

That's why I loathe Maeglin.

[asinoeiv]

had fun with this, really wanted to illustrate the difference between Maeglin and Tuor