Maedhros: Explain. Right now.

Maglor: It was Celegorm.

Caranthir: It was Celegorm.

Curufin: It was Celegorm.

Celegorm: It was Celeg- wait.

Celegorm: I don't know why I said that.

Silm AU with the Feanorian death order reversed

I apologize in advance, but:

#OP IM SO INVESTED#ur brain id love to pick it over this#if Maedhros alliance doesnt happen does that mean fingon is still alive?#fingon as high king after Feanors dissapearance and Celebrimbor shows up with elrond and elros#fingons great newphews and there is something about them that makes him ache for Maedhros#maybe its their grey eyes or what a great leader elros is or how kind and caring elrond is#that makes fingon remember the idealized version of his long dead cousin from back in valinor#fingon would be their ward until elros goes off with his own kingdom raising them along with his own adopted son#Gil-Galad with his silver hair and freckles splayed across his nose who is so tall and regal and brave#who adores his younger adopted sibling who in turn adores him so much to be his herald#fingon watches elrond and his sweet voice and regal and charming gil galad and grieves

@youareunbearable love your tags! To be honest I hadn't thought too much about the Nirnaeth writing this, but I definitely feel like it's the kind of thing only Maedhros and Fingon working together could've pulled off. And with the Nolofinweans and Arafinweans hating the Feanorians even more in this AU...yeah, can't see a Union of anybody getting pulled together.

So yeah! Fingon is still hanging in there as High King, and he is grieved and disappointed when his estranged cousins go on to commit kinslaying again and again, but not surprised, not deep down. He definitely has moments of thinking "if only Maedhros had lived, he would've stopped this". (Nobody tell him how canon went.) (Nobody tell any other version of Maedhros that him dying when and how he did kept Fingon alive.)

And headcanon completely accepted as far as him and Gil-galad and Elrond and Elros! I think they and Celebrimbor would make a very sweet little family, and help each other cope and heal.

Back to Himring

Am I the villain...?

Instead of 'Am I the asshole' it's just silm characters except they're going 'Am I the villain...'.

Sons of Feanor version:

Maedhros: I might have stolen a couple of jewels from my uncle. For context, these jewels were made by my father and then stolen by others. However, when I picked up the jewels they burned me and I jumped into a chasm. I am now stuck in the halls of the dead, thinking about my past actions, and the leader around here, Mandos, is accusing me of being a villain. I have committed many crimes while I was getting these jewels back, including mass murder, theft, kidnapping, arson, starting a war against the bad guy who killed my father, and perhaps a few more. But I also saved a few people. This place keeps making me think: am I the real villain here? Am I the cause of all the problems? Am I at fault for allowing my brothers to roam unchecked?

Maglor: Am I the villain? Yes. I am the villain. I kidnapped innocent children after killing their parents brutally, burned down ships when my father asked, didn't protect my lands when my brother asked, and then I abandoned those kids I stole to wallow in self-pity. I'm contemplating whether or not I deserve to be called anything right now.

Celegorm: I just got killed by the son of this girl that I liked. My dog abandoned me for her, and she stole my family's jewel and refused to return it. And now this stupid god guy is accusing me of being a villain for not respecting a person's wishes? Am I the villain when I was abandoned by everyone and accused of crimes I did not commit?

Caranthir: I was just minding my own business, scamming people and getting in the money needed to fund a whole ass war and then my brothers decided we had to kill a bunch of people and I had to participate. So I did. Now I'm dead and this guy tells me I can't get money because I was basically a horror story told to children. Would I be the villain if I killed him? (He's already dead btw.)

Curufin: Whatever anyone else is saying, I am not the villain. But apparently, it's cool to post 'Am I the villain stuff' or so my brother said. So. I might've killed a bunch of people and I might've made weapons that harmed way more people. Does that make me the villain? I think not. Those people were keeping me and my brothers from our birthright. We asked them politely multiple times, but it didn't work. Sadly, we had to resort to violence, although we were set on achieving it through peace. Additionally, those people tried to ban our language, eradicate our culture, and refused to allow our refugees to settle under their protection because they were sanctimonious, prejudiced, and stuck-up.

Amrod: Can I be the villain when I've been dead since the beginning?

Amras: My twin was killed by my father, and then my father died. I proceeded to do unspeakable things to get revenge on the guy that firstly made my father insane enough to kill my twin and then my father. Anyone else who was injured was just collateral and completely accidental. Besides, I spent most of my time listening to my older brothers and following their orders, but this random guy I bumped into called me a villain. Am I really the villain?

“A king is he that can hold his own, or else his title is vain”, yes, Maedhros?

Outta curiosity: didn’t the feanorians technically fulfill the oath? Like, yeah the jewels burned Maedhros and Maglor for their crimes, but they did get the jewels into their grasps and belong to them, so technically the oath itself is fulfilled, right?

I might be wrong though

Ok but consider; The Valar lie about Maglor being in Mandos.

So let's say Maglor is in middle-earth getting therapy Hobbit-Style. He’s living his best life in The Shire healing from his trauma.

But on the other side of that damn ocean, his concerned, reembodied family (minus Feanor, stubborn ass spirit of fire) are told that he is healing in Mandos. The Valar are thinking it’s fiiiine because he is healing and will probably come to Valinor eventually, right? So what’s the harm?

Meanwhile, the reembodied Sons of Feanor are getting suspicious, and Finrod keeps looking at Maedhros with his “I Know Something They Don’t” look (Maedhros knows every look on his baby cousins’ faces. He babysat every finwean child until Maeglin was begotten. Maedhros Can Tell Something Is Afoot.)

A brief interlude for @dreamingthroughthenoise and @cuarthol ‘s joint Finrod Headcanon; whereas Finrod is the one who created the Sea Longing via trying to get Maglor to come home. Read more about that at your own delight.

Interlude over; So The Valar starts to Sweat because now people are asking questions Galadriel is whispering schemes to her brothers and Finrod is whispering right back (Oropher is stuck between them happily, the sap). Then the Arafinweans start scheming with the Feanorians and you know the Nolofinweans (*cough* Fingon & Aredhel *cough*) are gonna go kicking down doors to invite themselves into The Scheming.

Before long, the entire finwean fam is Scheming and playing the “I’m sleeping over at the Feanorians’ house” and “I’m sleeping over at the Nolofinweans’ house” game with their parents (Except the Arafinweans, whose parents have long since given up trying to keep track of their children).

Anyway at the end of it all, even Ulmo is in on The Scheming, which helps when the finweans go on a treasure hunt for their last family member in Middle-Earth. The hobbits throw a huge goodbye party. Gandalf is there.

can someone who understands silmarillion lore explain why maedhros didn't just wrap the silmaril in a thick cloth or something and carry it with him instead of dramatically jumping into a lava pit

Dior: this is a gem my parents won…

Curufin : …yes?

Dior: And it’s cursed?

Maedhros: if you don’t want it, you could give it back

Dior: (holding it to his chest)…no

Celegorm: (grinning) then it’s really very cursed

Maedhros: I’m really going to need you to stop using my Quenya names. It would be a stupid thing for us to destroy relations with the Sindar over.

Celegorm: Oh come on Nelyo.

Maedhros: Just use Maedhros. It’s really not that hard.

Amras: Timo?

Maedhros: No!

Maglor: What about Russo?

Maedhros: What about this are you not getting? Those are all Quenya names! Caranthir: Alright fine! We’ll call you Mae.

Maedhros: That’s not what I said? Do you guys have a compulsive need to abbreviate everyone’s names?

Curufin: I don’t see it. What about you Cara?

Maglor: Well you’re one to talk! Who do you think started it?! I genuinely thought my names were Kano and Laure for the first twenty years of my life!

Ghost Hunter Au: Incorrect Quotes

Amras: This week on Uzzfeed Bunsolved we investigate this location as part of our ongoing investigation into the question: are ghosts real?

Maedhros: (shakes head at the camera)

Caranthir: (surprisingly high key scared of ghosts)

Caranthir: (surpringly low key fine with actual psychopaths)

Caranthir: Hey! We’re here for the cult stuff

Celegorm: Yeah, we saw the ad on Craigslist 

Curufin: I went to a robotics club because yknow my dad recommended it

Curufin: Yeah, I met the most insufferable people there

Curufin: (grins) But they also met me

Celegorm: If you want to hurt us, turn the light on

Amrod: (has thrown at least three cursed dolls and Caranthirs head tonight with no apparent reaction)

Amrod: (has cracked every mirror Maedhros has looked in this house and only gotten a ‘huh that’s weird’)

Amrod: (spams the light switch)

does morgoth know about the oath?

He does. Following the Fall of Gondolin:

…Morgoth thought that his triumph was fulfilled, recking little of the sons of Fëanor, and of their oath, which had harmed him never and turned always to his mightiest aid; and in his black thought he laughed, regretting not the one Silmaril that he had lost, for by it as he deemed the last shred of the people of the Eldar should vanish from Middle-earth and trouble it no more. If he knew of the dwelling by the waters of Sirion, he gave no sign, biding his time, and waiting upon the working of oath and lie.

Underlined part is especially brutal, imo. The futility of it all!

In my brain the entire house of Fëanor in Valinor pre everything going wrong has a strong “I love that you love what you do’ dynamic with each other. 

Maedhros practises his speeches on obscure legislature while modelling for Nerdanel while she listens intently. She’s completely lost and completely invested, interrupting him only once to ask he keep his hand up a little higher.

Celegorm discussing with Fëanor late into the night about the grammatical structure of the language of rabbits and how it affects their hierarchical structures. Everything he’s saying sort of scratches the part of Fëanor’s brain still hung up on his linguistics hyperfixations way back when.

Caranthir knows nothing about musical theory but after hearing Maglor complaining about all the way through breakfast about this tune he just can’t get right, his math brain is like ‘the rhythm is off’ and Maglor has to switch on his music brain to translate but then is like “Valar above! I was using a mismatched time signature”

Curufin patiently sitting through Amras’ tea tasting test from random leaves he’s foraged while hunting. Amrod patiently waiting as Curufin halts his cartography expedition because “Ambraussa LOOK silver deposits!!”

Just like, the Noldorin meraki was strong in that family. They may not understand what it is so interesting about each others Things but they totally get being excited about a Thing so they happily listen to an info dump on rocks when they know their tirade on fabric pigments was up next,

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