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Small Fingon ….. Fingonsito’i

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I scribbled this in class haha

The End of the Curse, Maeglor & Maedhros

- Wavesheep

●For blood ye shall render blood●

"𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭; 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳.

𝘠𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘺𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩'𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸."

– J.R.R. Tolkien Quenta Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor

Characters in order:

Maedhros

Maglor

Caranthir

Celegorm

Amras

Amrod

Fëanor

Curufin

(The Silmarillion)

I refuse to say how much time went into this, and I am AMAZED I didn't lose motivation halfway

(Cheers to all the details no one is ever going to acknowledge)

#digitalart #painting #drawing #illustration #digitalpainting #tolkien #lordoftherings #feanor #meadhros #maglor #celegorm #caranthir #curufin #amrod #amras #theringsofpower #fanart #clipstudiopaint #thesilmarillion

Elrond: Check in.

Maedhros: Bad.

Two hours later

Elrond: Checking in.

Maedhros: Still doing bad.

I know that the nitpicking over why the Fellowship didn’t just ride the eagles to fly directly to Mordor has been talked to death, there’s more than enough answers. The Doylist answer is that would stop the whole book from existing, or replace it with a wholly different book all about eagles. The Watsonian answer is that a) the eagles are a noble independent people not a taxi service, b) the quest is a stealth mission and huge massive giant eagles are not stealthy, c) Mordor has air supremacy and the eagles could only fly to Mount Doom after Sauron was defeated and the Nazguls all gone.

But just now, option d) occurred to me: do we really trust the eagles to withstand the ring? If it tempts Gandalf and Galadriel, surely it tempts Gwaihir the Windlord. Do we want to create the Dread Lord of the Skies? He would wear the Ring on his lovely sharp claw! He would fly higher and swifter than the winds of the world! He would build a magnificent nest from the broken timbers of Edoras! He would eat so many people! All elves and men would be forced underground!

exactly!! the Eagles are basically bird-shaped Maiar; a Ringlord Gwaihir would be the exact same situation as Ringlord Gandalf (or worse, since Ringlord Gwaihir is also twenty feet tall and can fly). having Gwaihir take the Ring to mordor would be like mailing it directly to sauron with a preorder bonus of a flying Umaia

TRULY this is galaxy brained of you @sesamenom get peer-reviewed

The Valar's mistake did not lie in seeing a possibility of good in Melkor. Rather, their mistake lay in not seeing the equal possibility of him remaining evil.

#no you’re correct #also you can’t be harsher on the feanorians than actual melkor sorry #either everyone deserves a second chance and restorative justice is real or you have to admit you don’t really believe in that #also yeah you can give even the worst guy ever to worst guy the chance to set things right. that’s fair. #but you DO gotta actually mediate things with the people said guy hurt and maybe take some responsibility for how you’re handling things (@nelyoslegalteam)

I keep saying this. It wasn't the Noldor who broke the covenant; the Valar broke it first.

It was pretty much a liege-lord/vassal kinda deal. The liege-lord offers protection and acts in the interest of their vassal, and the vassal, in turn, offers service and obedience.

Then the Valar shat the bed and let Melkor out without safeguards. He went and killed the Two Trees, killed Finwë, and nabbed the Noldor's greatest treasure.

Fëanor, then, rightfully expected his liege-lords to act on his behalf.

They did not. They did not go and retrieve their wayward brother, they did not offer recompense for a murdered king and stolen goods. This raises the "The Valar Shat the Bed" count to two.

So the Noldor as a whole thought to themselves, well, they promised us protection and they weren't even capable of protecting our fucking king. They will not act on our behalf and in our best interest. So, we're leaving the covenant.

Which is a vassal's right!

And then the Valar shat the bed again by ordering the Teleri not to lend the Noldor their ships. We will never know what they would have decided otherwise - would Olwë have wanted to help avenge the death of his friend? Probably.

The difference between a prison and a safe haven is that you get to leave the safe haven whenever you choose to. So effectively, Aman was now a prison for the Noldor - and you know what is entirely justified when being held by any means necessary?

Breaking out.

The Valar had effectively pitted Noldor and Teleri against each other, forcing the events that followed. They seriously messed up not just by our understanding, but by the rules of their own world and society.

And it's one of my biggest gripes with Tolkien's narrative, that they never have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

And to add another gripe, the Valar keep making their mistakes everyone else’s problem!

It’s one thing to initially refuse to pursue Morgoth. It’s another to keep refusing to do anything about it through the entire First Age while the exiled Noldor, Sindar, Men, and Dwarves are the ones paying the consequences. The Noldor signed up for all that, sure, but none of the other groups did—they just had their home invaded by an ancient horror that used to be gone but no longer is. Wonder why that is!

I really like the liege-vassal analogy because it captures the two-way expectations of this whole dynamic. But I’m going to tweak it a bit to expand it to all the Children of Eru. The Valar entered Eä willingly and knowingly with the duty to care for it and its inhabitants. The Children, though, didn’t choose any part of this arrangement. The duty the Valar have to their vassals is thus far greater than the inverse. A contract by choice must carry more weight than a contract by happenstance of birth.

And that, imo, is the most fucked-up part of the whole situation. The Valar make explicit liege-protection conditional on moving to their home. And then, as prev says, when the Valar shat the bed by letting Morgoth go, they can’t even provide that! And then, the Valar continue playing Favorite Vassals by saying that anyone who didn’t follow them is left to their own devices. That’s very much not what Eru charged them with when they entered Eä—it’s all the Children, not the ones who both live on your island and also happened to stay when you massively fucked up.

And it takes a fucking pair of Peredhil sailing through their hostile deadly boundaries to change the Valar’s minds. What the fuck.

@sesamenom YES EXACTLY

A Mae doodle for @feanorianweek ✨

this is my other entry for @tolkienrsb , which I had the absolute joy of working on with the lovely @zealouswerewolfcollector !! we explored a ‘what-if?’ scenario in which it’s Maedhros who survives in Maglor’s place, and his wanderings in Middle Earth in the later Ages 😙 the fic will be going live in a few days as well so until then, here are some sneak-peaks of what’s to come!

bonus: an alternate version of screenshot 2 with a different bg under the cut

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