hmmm actually hot take but both melkor and mairon are femme actually. in this essay i will
#lee chatters#no but seriously#so much of how we view them as characters when shipping them together is just an extension of modern gender roles#applied to two characters who are canonically immortal shapeshifters#why would they follow human gender norms?#also not even getting into the idea of the person on the 'bottom' being viewed as subservient bc again#WHY WOULD THEY FOLLOW THAT#THEY DONT EVEN NEED BODIES WHY WOULD THAT BE VIEWED AS ANYTHING#at some point we have to be not weird abt that#assigning mairon a particular sexual position because he ranks lower is dumb#likewise assigning melkor a particular sexual position because he ranks higher is dumb#how hard is it#we write abt gnc/enby mairon all the time#but we also need to consider how we handle that#especially when approaching him with a more feminine appearance#it's still misogynistic to portray feminine as equivalent to subservient even if the character is amab#okay rant over#for now#melkor#mairon#angbang#the silmarillion#first age foolishness