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Do we actually know what happened to Maglor after he chucks his Silmarill into the ocean? I've been trying to find out but about all I can find is that he walks down the beach ever to be heard from again. Like, is that it? Does he die at some point that we know of and I'm just missing something?

As far as I know there is no information in any of Tolkien’s works about what happened to Maglor after that, and there is certainly no canon evidence that he dies or sails to Valinor, hence all the fics where Maglor is still around during the War of the Ring or in our modern world.

Maglor is a cryptid, and that is canon

#crablor #maglor

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For the WIP folder game: 9. Maglor Indebted

Also hi! I hope you're having a good evening (or day or afternoon depending on when you see this) :)

Maglor woke slowly, comfortably, safe and warm inside of a cave, tucked away from the storm he could hear raging outside of the small rocky haven. It was perhaps the most terrifying experience of the third age.

 The last thing he could remember was pulling the Orcs blade out of his leg, and the surprise he felt at the speed and amount of  blood that came flowing out of it. Then the cool dampness of the rocky ground as he collapsed onto it against his will, just managing to roll himself over to look up at the stars as he died. 

“Ah, it's about time that you awoke.” There were a few shuffling steps and then a metal spoon was held to his lips, “It’s water, you must be parched.” 

As a rule, Maglor did not accept much of anything from anybody. Under any circumstances. The only consistent exception to this rule was Elrond, and this young blonde woodelf was certainly not Elrond. 

But… He was very thirsty. 

The blond elf sighed, “If I wanted to harm or kill you, I would have simply left you on the rock where I found you. Or traded you to the nearby Goblin population for safe passage for the remainder of the year.” The spoon was pressed to his lips again, “I’d never waste my time on something so unreliable as poison.” 

He slowly sipped the water from the spoon, practically choking on it when his mind was finally able to come up with the only identity that could have possibly belonged to his mysterious savior: Legolas Thranduilion.

The realization did nothing to quell the fears that still gripped at his heart from the moment that he woke.

(Hi! I'm having a wonderful evening, thank you so much. I hope that you're also having a wonderful day/night! Thanks for the ask and stay safe out there! <3)

#tag.fic

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already inflicted this on the discord server and decided to make everyone suffer here too

assigning silmarillion elves bad driving habits

feanor: speeds, unless you tailgate, in which case he will slow down until you back off. if he has to stop in the middle of the high way, that's your fault for entering a battle of wills with feanor

fingolfin: tailgates

finarfin: does 5 below the speed limit in the outside lane

maedhros: chronic backseat driver

fingon: incapable of using turn signal unless he has explicitly been reminded by maedhros in the past 15 minutes

maglor: plays music so loudly he cannot hear sirens if an emergency vehicle needs to pass

celegorm: explicitly ignores those special speed limits around schools (either they learn or they die)

curufin: has modified the shit out of his car so the engines are super loud because he thinks it makes him look cool

caranthir: knows the location of every speed and red light camera in tirion. abuses this knowledge.

celebrimbor: on his phone

nerdanel: thinks stop signs are a suggestion (see also: red flags)

finrod: incapable of recognizing when he is too drunk to drive. very insistent he gives his drunk friends a drive home because they're to drunk to drive and he wants them to be SAFE

turgon: tells everyone to get an electric car while not actually having one himself

#tolkien #silmarillion #silm #silm crack #funny #bastards all of them

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Animated Mae and his scars.Because I was bored. And because, why not?

#maedhros #art

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Fingon does not play often anymore. Rarely does the mood strike him, and mostly when he is alone, his heart is sorrowful. But at the Mereth Aderthad some merriness of the crowd strikes him, some warmth of the liquor, and he picks up the harp and plays, unthinking, a drinking-song from bygone days. Around him elves laugh and dance, an ocean of swirling silk, and he hears little his own music. 

“You have lost the touch,” Maglor says, “you were better.” 

Fingon looks down at the joints of his fingers, where feeling has not returned since the ice, and says naught. 

#fingon #maglor #the grinding ice #tag.snippets

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I just thought of something

So Joel just built a statue of Lizzie as the Ocean Queen in his shrine on hermitcraft.

What has he been trying to do for the past several episodes? Get a blue axolotl. And what is Lizzie? The blue axolotl.

Man's just trying to find his wife and that's so sweet

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ngl Eol would’a been the fandom’s favorite wet cat husband/dad (per getting dragged into adventures by his wild wife) if he weren’t such an utter ass.

Eol, Aredhel and Maeglin by chillyravenart

#tolkien #silmarilion #aredhel #eol #lomion #maeglin #art

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Feanor litters using biodegradable paper or something but only in the area where Melkor is at.

Dude looks the Dark Vala in the eyes and drops a single paper 5 feet from a trashcan.

The papers all have badly drawn pictures of Melkor getting stabbed on them (Tiny Tyeple wanted to help)

The scene looks like something from a Brooklyn 99 episode because the camera is zoomed out to show Melkor picking up the paper, and zooms in to capture his face full of disdain like a dunked cat. The camera changes angle to show a child’s drawing of a black-haired person with a jack-a-lantern face getting stabbed by a fork.

Do yall think Melkor had to do mandatory community service hours in Valinor while he was on parole?

Bc it’d be hella funny if he did

#melkor #morgoth #the silmarillion #the silm fandom #silm shitpost #sorry for adding so much I just had A Vision y’know #tag.words #funny

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Love that Earendil looks like an eldritch horror wandering the sky

eärendil the mariner soaring over númenor in star form

inspired by the book of miracles

#eärendil #númenor #tolkien #tolkien art #the silmarillion #silm art #silmarillion #art #eldritch peredhel

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Imagine, tho, Post-Rescue Fingon with a thick, jagged scar that circles his wrist and looks like the skin was rubbed raw by a shackle.

Soulmate Scars AU but Fingon has one more more scar than Maedhros and the imagery of it haunts Maedhros to the point of insanity.

Maedhros isn’t chained in Angband anymore but his bestfriend-spouse-boyfriend-cousin-favorite person will always have the imprint of a shackle on his wrist.

these "A gets B's injuries" soulmate aus don't really work in the silmarillion because then they wouldn't have survived the first age. russingon rescue especially wouldn't work too well

(maybe "A gets B's scars without the pain" could work though? not sure how that'd work with amputation but the image of fingon walking over the ice knowing his beloved is being tortured and unable to do anything, even to travel faster, is too tempting)

#fingon #silm soulmate au #tag.words #silmarillion headcanons #silm headcanon #tag.au #had fun with this post lol #maedhros #russingon #or not #open to interpretation #rlly

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@crystalcatgamer

#tag.ice

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Its a funny thought to wonder how a Finwion Custody Battle over Gil-Galad would go, but consider; everyday elves keep trying to make Gil-Galad king again.

Gil-Galad is dodging various crowns left and right. The die-hard feanorians see that the king who reluctantly took them in after mae&mags died is back and immediately try to swear allegiance anew while Feanor and his sons are on probation (to Elrond’s delight, the little shit). Gil-Galad makes an inspirational speech about the inherent danger of Oaths (think; TedTalk). Unfortunately, that only makes him look more kingly and they might as well have sweared anyway.

All the lords of Gondolin are either trying to remain in Retirement or don’t have enough reputation points. Turgon is distracted with his reembodied wife and rebuilding Gondolin anew. So the Gondolindrim elves keep trying to make Gil-Galad their representative in Finarfin’s high court since he’s obviously of Nolofinwion heritage. Gil-Galad dodges that Kingly Position only because he makes a petition for Egalmoth to become the new head advisor and official representative of Gondolin in Valinor in Turgon’s stead.

The Doriathrim have their own king back (all hail Thingol and his weird tree wife). But they still wanna give back to the king that took them in as refugees. So the Doriathrim try to elect and sell Gil-Galad’s reputation to Thingol. Gil-Galad almost becomes a part of Thingol’s court as a highly-respected advisor and steward. He doesn’t only becomes he throws Elrond to the wolves and books It before the Doriathrim aren’t distracted by their strange, distant prince suddenly appearing.

Even the Avari get in on it as some point. They try to elect Gil-Galad their Noldoran representative in Valinor for all the tribes because he always treated them fairly in Middle-Earth, he doesn’t treat them as second-class citizens, and he doesn’t treat them like savage idiots. Unfortunately, that’s basically being High King of The Avari. Gil-Galad escapes this crown by honorably (panickingly) saying that an elven race should have their own leader from their own people. He encourages the Avari to represent themselves and face discrimination with their heads held high. Gil-Galad doesn’t become king but the Avari see him as a king in his own right nonetheless (which he pretends to not notice).

Anyway, the entire premise is that the universe keeps trying to make Gil-Galad a king or king-adjustant. but Gil keeps dodging every crown and sleeping in Elrond's guestroom (or the couch, during the Doriath Incident)

The end result is that every elven race ends up seeing him as a king anyway, even without people actively, publicly following him.

(Of course, the Feanorians follow him discreetly, but Gil-Galad won’t make a fuss as long as they are quiet about it.)

He thinks the Feanorians will abandon him when Feanor & Co’s probation ends. He is wrong, and Gil-Galad becomes an ambassador for the Feanorian Faction, to Elrond’s delight (little shit).

#silmarillion #tag.words #silm headcanon #elrond and gil galad #gil galad #ereinion gil galad #silm shitpost

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hc that elrond put off sailing west for so long because he didn't want to face his abandonment issues

he spent his whole life hearing songs and tales about the father who sailed the oceans instead of raising him; who never stopped on the shore long enough to even give him and his brother names.

not to mention his mother who heard he'd been kidnapped, and instead of trying to get him back just went "oh no :(" and killed herself.

he was six years old.

#elrond

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Born in Eru’s mind

#melkor #the silmarillion #manwe #tolkien #silmarillion #art #valar

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One thing I love about the Silmarillion is that because it’s so massive, its fans have to specialize.

Like I love everything but my Silm major is in Finrod studies, with a minor in obscure background characters.

Reblog this post with your Silmarillion “speciality,”

#lmao #hello I have a major in Feanorians #a minor in The Line of Thingol #and an associates in Finwion Sibling Dynamics #i already have a phd in Gil-Galad Son of Plothole tho lol

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Obsessed with the idea of Maedhros being programmed to react to crying babies.

Like, anyone could hand Maedhros a baby elfling, edain, or anything else humanoid and he’ll just Take The Baby and start cradling it on instinct.

This guy has six (6) younger brothers.

Imagining a scenario where post-angband Maedhros is sleeping (miraculously) but someone’s baby starts crying outside his tent and Maedhros just, shoots straight up immediately like “where is baby. Why is baby crying.” And it’s the most encouraging thing that Mae’s done since Fingon rescued him.

#tag.words #maedhros #post angband maedhros #silmarillion #silm headcanon

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I use this celebrimbor concept in my gil-galad fic but Celebrimbor isn’t the mc so it’s not expanded upon, but also, I wanna talk about it.

So, as a concept; Celebrimbor makes fake plants.

It’s mostly a crack headcanon because Celebrimbor is an Inventor (*cough* mad scientist *cough*) and Inventors always make practical stuff that looks normal. Like, Celebrimbor opens the inside of a fake plant in front of Galadriel (who didn’t notice the fake plant was so…mechanical), and now Galadriel doesn’t trust any of the fake plants in Eregion. Are they all decorative? Do they all have secret compartments? Who knows! (Celebrimbor refuses to tell her which are decorative-fake and which are hidden-knife-fake)

It escalates to the point where Gil-Galad gets gifted a Fake Plant and after tugging on a rubber leaf (per the instruction manual), the whole pot opens to reveal an ornate set of well-made daggers.

Elrond also gets gifts inside Fake Plants. Narvi, too, who thinks it’s hilarious.

At one point, Celebrimbor discovers a way to make the fake plant leaves sway in the wind without the stiffness of rubber, and a new type of silicone that feels leafy to the touch if prepared properly. Galadriel’s paranoia grows as the Fake Plants get more realistic.

Love the idea of Celebrimbor and the classic “Inventor Makes Hidden Compartment Inside Harmless Things” trope. I think it’s just the right amount of harmless, accidentally threatening, and Mad Scientist to fit Celebrimbor’s character.

#tag.words #celebrimbor #galadriel #gil galad #fake plants #silmarilllion #silm headcanon