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Chapters: 5/7 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elrond Peredhel & Maeglin | Lómion, Elrond Peredhel & Ereinion Gil-galad, Celebrimbor | Telperinquar/Maeglin | Lómion Characters: Maeglin | Lómion, Elrond Peredhel, Círdan | Nowë, Glorfindel (Tolkien), Sauron | Mairon, Annatar (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Maeglin is Gil-galad, Gil-galad Son of Plothole, Second Age, Self-Loathing, Tags to be updated with new chapters, Suicidal Thoughts, Animal Death, Self-Harm, fallen banners, Explicit Sexual Content, Mildly Dubious Consent Series: Part 3 of Sharp star Summary:

Maeglin and Gil-Galad hate each other; it is really unfortunate that they are actually the same person.

Or,

Elrond would like his King to stay safe and healthy. His King, however, has no interest in taking care of himself.

So, I know it has been ages since I last updated... But if people are still interested in reading this fic, here is the new chapter!

#silmarillion #maeglin #elrond #my fic #maeglin is gil galad #gil galad son of plothole

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reading a book with a medieval setting and i was v excited for it BUT these characters have such modern hangups about touch and personal space that i keep forgetting it's meant to be the fourteenth century. lads. get in bed together, it's cold.

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I’m imagining the Silmarillion being told entirely in epistolary format. Letters. Diary entries. Reports from scouting parties. Supply lists from Doriath. Copies of Caranthir’s tax records. Research papers. Poetry. Songs. Field guide pages with drawings of creatures and plants. Recipes. Drawings of fashion designs, or sketches of jewelry, armor. Blueprints of Gondolin. Maps. Star charts.

And it’s all been compiled by Elrond.

#silmarillion #i would read that

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a tentative Maeglin design. He looks much younger than I was going for, but hey, he is really young by elf standards so maybe it's fate

#silmarillion #maeglin #he looks so cool !

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best flavor of gil galad is "somebody's gotta do something about this" followed immediately by "fuck, i'm the somebody"

#silmarillion #gil-galad

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I have a question ...who were Maeglins friends ? Lord wise , cause in some fics all the other lords are friendly to him but none would consider him a close friend nor would he consider any of them close . So who do you think are edgelords friends?

I turned this into a history lesson, sorry >.<

Canonically speaking, his only friend was Lord Salgant who became fond of the young Lord and Prince upon his entry to court. When Turgon introduced Maeglin as his successor and a member of the twelve Lords of Gondolin, Salgant proposed himself as a close friend to Maeglin. Furthermore, it was also stated that he was loved by the people of his house and they were loyal to him. There was no hatred or disdain between him and others (aside from Idril).

Apart from Salgant, I cannot say if the others Lords were extremely close with him. They were all Lords which meant cooperation was necessary, so Maeglin was surely able to interact on friendly terms with them. Perhaps not as friendly as his friendship with Salgant or the friendship between Glorfindel and Ecthelion.

Non-canonically speaking, the fandom has perpetuated a narrative which projects a more realistic and psychological approach to Maeglin's life in Gondolin, using his past as the foundation. Starting from his isolation from the Noldrin society and a heavy Avarin upbringing which his father installed, to witnessing the death of his mother and persecution of him by the hands of his father, these were all situations used to create the Maeglin that many have come to know. It was also once stated that he had orish blood in his veins, another reason for why people assumed he was disliked.

This can supposedly be a reason for him not wishing to be friendly with the others; a lack of trust, refusing to believe the Lords truly welcomed and accepted someone of Avarin descent after hearing how different his people were from the Noldor and would be treated, and with the whole welcoming Tuor situation. Lots of Lords were fond of Tuor while Maeglin disliked him.

Overall, reading fics where the friendship between him and other Lords are different, depends on the narrative the writer decides to follow. Most of us use fanon since it allows for a wider range of scenarios, hence why you'll see Maeglin mostly depicted introverted and an outcast.

#maeglin #silmarillion

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“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World

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I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

#lotr #lord of the rings #boromir #aragorn #legolas #gimli #merry #pippin #this post was a rollercoast #amazing from beginning to end

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#silmarillion #poll #we are all a bunch of gold diggers apparently

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i know silvergifting is real popular but i'm SO into the comedic (and romantic!) potential of celebrimbor repeatedly friendzoning The most fair maia walking arda because he's a got a big ol'crush on his dwarf coworker

#silmarillion #celebrimbor #narvi #annatar #you can pry celebrimbor x narvi from my cold dead hands

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Drew this commission of Aredhel and Maeglin with specific designs for @tengwar !!! It was fun to draw!

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#silmarillion #Aredhel #Maeglin #fanart #they are adorable

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#idril #glorfindel #maeglin #silmarillion #fanart #love your maeglin op

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Are confused 

#silmarillion #maedhros #elrond #elros #kidnap family #gorgeous art

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For a Silm doodle, would you draw Aredhel and Maeglin hanging out?

They're having a lil dance when he was small-

#Silmarillion #Aredhel #Maeglin #fanart #adorable

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Quick Moryo because he always gets nice comments when I draw him in memes, so he kinda deserved his own drawing.

#silmarillion #caranthir

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Chapters: 4/6 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elrond Peredhel & Maeglin | Lómion, Elrond Peredhel & Ereinion Gil-galad, Celebrimbor | Telperinquar/Maeglin | Lómion Characters: Maeglin | Lómion, Elrond Peredhel, Círdan | Nowë, Glorfindel (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Maeglin is Gil-galad, Gil-galad Son of Plothole, Second Age, Self-Loathing, Tags to be updated with new chapters, Suicidal Thoughts, Animal Death, Self-Harm, fallen banners, Explicit Sexual Content, Mildly Dubious Consent Series: Part 3 of Sharp star Summary:

Maeglin and Gil-Galad hate each other; it is really unfortunate that they are actually the same person.

Or,

Elrond would like his King to stay safe and healthy. His King, however, has no interest in taking care of himself.

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Yes, I’m aware it has been forever... but chapter 4 is up! I hope you like Fallen banners :)

#silmarillion #my fic #maeglin #maeglin is gil galad #gil galad son of plothole #celebrimbor #celebrimbor x maeglin #fallen banners

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ooc-headcanon:

Maeglin post-reembodiment in Valinor being miserable

not because of the common reasons you can think of

but because of Aredhel constantly dragging him to road trips into the wild “for fun”

(Aredhel still considered “crossing the Spider forest” to be her top 5 amazing traveling experience)

Now she was determined to show her baby every nice picnic & camping locations from her youth

Maeglin was absolutely not impressed he wanted to find a nice forge to hit metals very hard and scream into the furnace

(He hated being chased by giant murderous cats with palm-long front teeth specialized to penetrate elf eyes)

(Thank Eru the Avari & Sindar elves hunted them to extinction in Middle Earth)

(Aredhel: “They are fluffy”)

(He really just wanted a nice forge.)

(Dwarves had something really interesting in their Halls. His childhood friends sneaked him in occasionally. But they rather rudely kicked him out after they found he was hanging out there to procrastinate over reembodiment)

(They carried him over their heads and marched to the Gate, singing happy farewell songs all the way and tossed him out like a bag of potatoes)

But his mother looked so happy and excited and he felt bad to show his real opinions on Aredhel’s idea of “fun little trips”

And when Maeglin tried to mask feelings he was THE expert

(Idril was still the only one who noticed Maeglin was absolutely not having a good time)

(She dragged him to a corner and did her investigation this time though)

It was a long awkward conversation to make Aredhel realize her baby REALLY would just love some independence chilling out in some cozy forge

#the silmarillion #maeglin #aredhel #excellent headcanon