#yes he’s called Comrade Maedhros by everyone because at some point in his life he stopped answering to Ikka (older brother)

[balrogballs]

I’m not saying I set my Silmarillion Postcolonial AU in Calicut, Kerala (as in, the non Oxford bits) just to show off the photos I’ve taken there across the years, but I’m not saying it didn’t influence the choice…

below photos aren’t mine but illustrates exactly what Comrade Maedhros meant when he explained how Kerala’s startling, romanticised and somewhat over-the-top Communist aesthetic is not the Soviet austerity fanclub people imagine it to be, but is in reality just well-meaning, grassroots, somewhat milquetoast bread and butter socialism dressed up in a Lenin hat 😭