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saintmairon · 3 years
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Maiar-Inspired Perfumes
I got an ask a few days ago requesting my thoughts on what Sauron smells like bc apparently Maiar have scents thanks professor but anyway. It has since snowballed into me crafting hypothetical perfumes inspired by all the Maiar. Do with this what you will <3
--Eönwë -- a subtle, androgynous scent reminiscent of a cool evening breeze. Green tea, pear blossom, and ozone with a hint of myrrh.
--Ilmarë -- an light and ethereal floral scent that evokes a garden at nighttime. White willow bark with vanilla, moonflower, and night-blooming jasmine.
--Ossë -- a heady and almost overpowering marine scent with dark stormy undertones. Strong musk and smoky liquor overlaid with tangy seawater.
--Uinen -- a fresh, playful aquatic scent with bright floral notes. Driftwood, water lily, lotus, and honeydew melon.
--Melian -- a captivating and complex feminine scent with woodland influence. Spanish moss, birch bark, rosewater, and honeysuckle.
--Arien -- a warm, bright scent with powerful spicy notes. Yuzu and champaca with cinnamon, clove, and ginger.
--Tilion -- a cool, subtle masculine scent evoking moonbeams and chilly night air. Eucalyptus, kaffir lime, and anise.
--Olórin -- a comforting, layered scent with soft herbal notes. Leather, parchment, and tobacco with lavender and juniper.
--Curumo -- a sophisticated masculine scent with complex undertones. Rosewood, opoponax, and dry vermouth touched with hot iron.
--Aiwendil -- an earthy, herbal scent with a hint of sweetness. Vetiver, olive leaf, fern, and honey.
--Pallando -- an understated masculine scent with Eastern influences. Ambergris, styrax, and almond blossom with lemongrass.
--Alatar -- a nuanced and ethereal scent with Eastern influences. Tonka bean and tea leaf with mandarin and lychee.
--Mairon -- a subtle, spicy scent with a certain catlike quality. Civet, saffron, cardamom, and frankincense.
--Sauron -- an overpowering smoky scent reminiscent of sacrificial incense. Dragon's blood, benzoin, black opium, and lapsang tea.
--Annatar -- an ethereal androgynous scent with a hint of artifical sweetness. Cypress, white oud, and marzipan.
--Gothmog -- a dark earthy scent with a strong smoky richness. Patchouli, cade oil, red pepper, and mace.
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saintmairon · 3 years
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re: my last post, it's always been my headcanon that Melkor is more ~human~ than the other Valar, even before he becomes locked in his physical form. He's got a much better grasp on things like emotions, physical sensations, and even instinctive drives (i.e. his desire to father children lmao)--all of which are things that the Valar find utterly foreign and even... a little gross??
Melkor's time as a captive in Valinor is very much a reminder that he is Completely Different from the others. He is equally as shocked and appalled by them as they are by him. This is also why Melkor is so appealing both to Elves, as we see in Valinor, and to Men. He's a far more relatable deity asldf like imagine your gods having no idea what pain felt like. that would be terrifying
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saintmairon · 3 years
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I cannot stress enough that Mairon is fucking SPOILED!!! That's Melkor's little kitty. His precious princess. He never wants for a thing. Melkor lavishes him with gifts and pets and servants and fortresses as thanks for being the one person who will give Melkor all the affection he craves. Mairon is a Sugar Baby. I'll die on this hill
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saintmairon · 3 years
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time for today's hot take, which is that Melkor stationed Sauron in Tol-in-Gaurhoth, surrounded by a guard of werewolves and other monstrosities, to keep him safe and relatively out of the way while the war raged on.
Sauron, as evidenced by his sound defeat by a big dog, was simply not cut out for physical combat. He spent a great deal of his life as a glorified domestic servant and never saw combat, which was most definitely by design on Melkor's part. Sauron was frankly spoiled rotten and treated like a prince; the LAST thing Melkor wanted was him getting caught up in combat and being injured or killed through plain lack of experience.
Also, Sauron fleeing to Taur-nu-Fuin was one part him throwing a tantrum over being defeated and one part him not wanting to worry his already stressed and anxious master any further. It is by Melkor's instruction that he has no part in the War of Wrath save for helping with the dragons--because at that point I believe Melkor knew his time was almost over, and wanted at least some of his legacy to be carried on by his most trusted servant. Losing Sauron would have been FAR too large a risk for him to take.
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saintmairon · 3 years
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The most interesting thing about the Melkor/Mairon dynamic, no matter if viewed in a romantic or platonic way, is how utterly devoted Mairon was. The usual trope would be for the 'minion' to work against his master's back to seek more power for themselves but Mairon was so loyal to Melkor even once he's gone. I really wish we had more on the seduction of Mairon because this can't come out of nowhere. Like there's no way that Melkor achieved this only by being persuasive/charming on the surface.
Yes!!! This!!!!!!
Mairon was not only a respected servant of Aulë, he was the MOST respected. Even his name meant admirable and precious. It's a long way to fall, from being the cherished servant of a God in Paradise to being second in command of the legions of Hell. I don't think Mairon, notoriously hard-working and loyal, would have given that life up lightly.
Likewise, I don't think Melkor would have put in the effort undoubtedly required to seduce a Maia of that caliber without truly admiring him. He treated Mairon very well throughout the length of Mairon’s service to him, and that inspired the undying love and loyalty we see in Mairon.
Personally, I very much think it was a romantic thing and Melkor was looking for a spouse as much as a servant but I totally get why people might not see it that way ahlfsk. At any rate, I don't think it can be disputed that there was a lot of mutual respect and admiration between them <3
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saintmairon · 3 years
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I'm regrettably in my angbang feelings once more and thinking. How could Melkor not have loved Mairon? Imagine basically the entirety of the known world has shunned and rejected you for, as you see it, simply expressing your vast creative powers in the only way you are able. Everything you do or make is deemed evil and spiteful and you yourself are relegated to the status of Universal Enemy, even though you are quite literally just doing what you're made for. You begin to see yourself in that way--everyone else is in agreement that you're a horrible nuisance at best and a mindlessly hateful monster at worst, so they must have some sort of point. Something about you, you're not sure what, is simply Bad and Wrong.
Faced with all this, it is easy to become convinced that no one could ever truly love you. Your own brother doesn't seem capable of it, and your pursuits of a spouse have been laughably fruitless. You begin to think, perhaps the punishment for your Badness and your Wrongness is to simply never be loved in the way you crave--that sort of despair could eat you up. But you are stubborn and willful, so you hide this pain behind a terrible, snarling mask and get back to work.
But then, by chance, you meet a Maia--someone else's servant, who you can't help but be instantly drawn towards. At first, you think there's no hope for this one-sided infatuation; he's wholeheartedly devoted to his work and barely acknowledges you, but this only fascinates you further. You decide to give courtship a try and, against all odds, he seems to develop an interest in you. In fact, he appears glad when you come to see him, and begins to set his work aside to spend time with you. He lights up when he sees you, and listens earnestly when you talk. He is not afraid of your awful mask, and eventually, you take it off. You expect him to shrink away from the truth of your hideous, pathetic nature, but he seems all the more endeared. As the days pass, he stands closer and closer to you while you talk.
You are madly in love. Your new companion is beautiful, not like the cold distant beauty of Varda, but like the brilliant red fires of the forge. He is clever and devoted and understanding. No one has ever understood you before. Eventually you realize you can't bear to be away from him, and so you ask him warily if he will come home with you and be your partner in all things. To your surprise, he eagerly agrees. He will forsake Paradise for you.
And that could be the end--you would have been content to simply have him as your mate, and asked nothing else of him. But he is quick to prove himself worthy of more. He is cunning, trustworthy, and most importantly, unfailingly loyal to you and you alone. He would do anything you asked of him. He becomes your most valuable asset and your most ardent defender. You love him all the more deeply for it as the world grows ever more hostile towards you. His love is a reprieve from your pain and your fear; his fierce devotion is a balm to your harried soul.
Even when you are gone, he never fails in his devotion. He raizes civilizations in your name. How could you not love him?
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saintmairon · 3 years
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melkor and mairon? i'm so predictable but at least you've got those two out of the way now.
I've got many thoughts on both so bear with me.
With Mairon it really only goes one of two ways. Either your name is Melkor and he's your worshipful little housewife who treats oral as a form of spiritual devotion and who will take on any shape or form that pleases you.. OR you are literally anyone else Mairon has ever slept with and he's a mean crop-wielding dom and you are his willing servant. Mairon delights in mixing pleasure with pain and is hardly beholden to the conventions of sex others might be governed by. He's KINKY kinky and expects his extremely sparse partners to keep tf up.
And this might be a controversial take but to be frank Melkor is The God of Laying Pipe. He's fucking huge, extremely tactile, and invented being a horny unhinged bastard. He gets off on satisfying his partners and there is literally no one he won't do. Breeding Kink off the CHARTS. He's cool if you want to call him Daddy. He's all for whatever weird thing you want to try especially if you are Mairon. He'll fuck a giant spider!! the man does not have a single inhibition and that translates to the best sex ever <3
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saintmairon · 3 years
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Ohhh fun! Elrond? (Not my hyperfixating on the married Elf Dilf)
I want to preface this by saying my bff is an Elrond Stan so i do have some Thoughts on the topic. Elf Dilf Widower lends himself to a shocking amount of horniness lmao
Anyway. Elrond has Man Blood in him which ofc means Horny. He's got a much higher sex drive than most Elves and although he learned to keep that shit under control by the time he's the Lord of Rivendell, as a young adult he was Promiscuous and very much an experimenter in the various realms of pleasure. He's EXPERIENCED. He knows wtf he likes and how to figure out what someone else likes. Physically he's also fairly well equipped lmao, and the dude is outrageously strong... all in all he's simply built to be GOOD in bed and that's that baby
as you can probably tell I'm also lowkey horny for Elrond lmao
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saintmairon · 3 years
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Caranthir, Finarfin and Glorfindel for your ask thing? :) You are doing the Lord's work.
SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG I'M SO BUSY
Anyway. Caranthir is lowkey shy... a little nervous of intimacy and just not terribly experienced. He definitely prefers that his partner take the lead, and he's very hesitant to try anything out of the ordinary. He's definitely horny, he just has trouble expressing himself and gets embarrassed easily. Don't ask me why I think this it's just the Vibe.
Finarfin, being the most objectively boring and sensible of Finwë's sons, could go one of two ways for me. Either he's that exact same straight-laced good boy in the bedroom, barely straying away from missionary; OR he's an absolute freak and just gets all his weirdness out in private. The first is more likely but the second is way funnier.
Aaaaand Glorfindel. My favorite blonde elven himbo. Everything about him says "I love to get pegged." He's a gentleman in bed and VERY good with his hands. He likes to cuddle and chitchat afterwards. His only caveat is that he's really not one for casual sex, he prefers to know his partners better before getting into any of that. But like. Who doesn't want to go on a few dates with Glorfindel lmao
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saintmairon · 3 years
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Could I request some fluffy angbang headcanons? Love ur art btw 💖
Most definitely!! I have lots of those :3
-the cutesy nicknames they call each other are genuinely nauseating askfdh. Melkor calls Mairon his Cat as a habit (Kali by extension is The Kitten), as well as tried and true classics like "my precious/treasure/beloved". Melkor doesn’t insist on Mairon calling him by any formal address, but Mairon uses them as terms of endearment. If he calls Mel Master, Lordship, your Majesty/Mightiness etc it's with the greatest tenderness.
-if you hear Mairon baby-talking Melkor when they think they're alone no you didn't <3 He simply knows that Melkor is starved of affection from pretty much any other source and as such has to absolutely heap it on. Melkor melts when Mairon calls him a pretty boy or plays with his hair or gives him nose kissies, even if that is all very unbecoming for a dark lord.
-Mairon absolutely loves the way Melkor smells. It isn't necessarily a GOOD smell--mostly like a faceful of soot and Godly Musk--but Mairon positively craves it & will bury his face in Melkor's chest/steal his clothing to inhale his scent. It's like catnip.
-Melkor's love language is physical touch. He loves hugs and cuddles, and especially kisses. Mairon is rather touch-averse with just about every other being on the face of the planet, but ofc has come to not only tolerate but deeply enjoy Melkor's physical affection. Mairon's love language, as you can probably guess, is gift-giving <3
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saintmairon · 3 years
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Turgon, Nerdanel, Finrod
Ok... Turgon is one of the characters I know the LEAST about so apologies if this is way off base but I'm getting gentle dom vibes. Service top perhaps? At any rate I'm feeling like he's noble and generous in bed, but perhaps a little too cautious to take any risks.
I know everyone ascribes "horny" to Fëanor but in order to have married him and produced 7 children there's no way Nerdanel wasn't at least keeping up. She gives me insatiable size queen energy. Fëanor is more pretentious (it's not fucking, it's ~making love~) while Nerdanel is far more straightforward. Not one for kinky stuff but will jump her husband whenever the urge strikes her.... it was a huge relief when their eldest could watch the kids for a while.
Finrod is a Power Bottom. I don't really have any other succinct thoughts about him other than "yeah, he and Beren fucked in the werewolf pit" but I think he has a thing for Men. The polar opposite of Turgon, he takes nothing but risks and likes it rough. I think he and Sauron looked into each other's eyes and for a brief moment in time thot recognized thot
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saintmairon · 3 years
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Things get a little less obtuse in my opinion when you compare the Valar to the British Empire, which has always been a very strong parallel in my mind. The British thought of themselves in no uncertain terms as the Good Guys, using their vast might to spread English rule (and Christianity by extension) to """"uncivilized"""" parts of the world. They proclaimed that this was for the greater good, because how could these lowly savages possibly lead fulfilling lives without God and the Queen and good old English Sensibility to guide them?
They were, of course, colonizing with purely selfish intent, but it certainly looks and sounds better if you're claiming to be improving people's lives with your rigid societal standards and commitment to the Glory of God. You're stamping out ~corruption~ while also securing your own lasting power and god-given right to global dominion. Very convenient!
That ofc is where the literal demonization of Melkor comes into play, who in this case represents all things Uncivilized and Ungodly, living in his miserable subterranean fortress, delighting in corruption and destruction, spitting in the face of God. It benefited the Valar immensely to make him an almost clownish caricature of evil worthy only of hatred and rejection--that sort of black and white dichotomy made them, of course, out as pure and good and wanting only the best for their subjects, much in the same way that the British Empire benefited from demonizing native religion and tradition. If it wasn't their way, it was the wrong way, and no amount of propaganda was ever too much for them. Sowing mistrust and fear of anything they didn't approve of served them directly. The correlation is impossible to ignore!!
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saintmairon · 3 years
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I have a lot of thoughts about how the Valar making Melkor out at eternally false and untrustworthy, even in cases where he may well have been sincere, is exactly the kind of thing people who are false and untrustworthy themselves DO adkfsh. The Valar really said gaslight gatekeep girlboss </3
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saintmairon · 3 years
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thoughts about the dark lords reuniting in the void after the events of the ring war? 🖤
Tbh I know that the popular theory is that Sauron joined Melkor in the Void but i don't agree! I don't think the Void is somewhere you can just GO... the Valar would have had to be involved and I like to think they'd have been more forward-thinking than to just. Give Melkor the brains of his operation back.
I have a running theory that Sauron, forced out of a physical form and with nowhere else to go, instead resorted to possessing human bodies, one after the other, and living out mortal lives while he awaited the End of Days and the return of his beloved master.
Does he spend those mortal lives rethinking his actions/making amends in hopes of forgiveness? Somehow I don't think so. The forgiveness of the Valar is meaningless to him--he would much rather go on glorifying Melkor's name and sowing discord in any way he can. That fits Sauron's subtle, underhanded style imo.
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saintmairon · 3 years
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Random question but what are your thoughts on Melkor and Mairon's taste in foods. Does either of them have a sweet tooth??
Oh love this question tbh!
I don't see Mairon as being big on food in general, as most Ainur are Not, but he does indulge occasionally. I imagine him enjoying things like tea and light pastries, and definitely fruit like apples and strawberries. If either of them has a sweet tooth, it's certainly Mairon. (Also this is only kind of related but I'm a fan of the idea of Mairon drinking blood alksdf. The Potential that has.)
Melkor, being as self-indulgent a being as he is, is a big eater and very adventurous with his food. There's not much he won't try, and he prefers intense flavors that give him the full satisfaction of eating. Meat in general, and anything spicy, bitter, or sour will generally appeal to him. Sweets aren't his favorite, but he won't say no if they're offered.
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saintmairon · 3 years
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Again. The point of that post was not "oohoh Melkor's so treacherous and cunning, he manipulated the Elves into liking and trusting him", the point was Melkor was genuine and forthright in his approach to the Elves, and the Valar, having no comprehension of actually understanding and sympathizing with the Elves, mistook it for malice. Bc they interpreted everything Melkor did as malicious.
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