#plummeting into the silmarillion again 🙃

[fixing-bad-posts]

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the thing about maedhros is that he’s an eldest daughter without being a daughter. it’s about being made the third parent—it’s about taking his mother’s place, trying to reason with fëanor when the ships get burned. it’s about being his brother’s temperance when they meet thingol. it’s about how he’s a follower until he’s not, and how he’s not like his father until he is. and it’s about how above all, he’s not allowed to fail—but he keeps failing over and over again until it wrecks him so totally that if he looked back to the beginning, he wouldn’t recognize himself anymore.