starstruck!? wha?
Yes hello fellow Finrod appreciator 🥹✨
Would you tell us more about your "Doom, Gloom and Maeglin" WIP please?
Okay but let me yell first for the a minute bECAUSE UUFHDKFHKD I AM STARSTRUCK.
Okay I'm good.
SO-- This fanfic is primarily Skaelds' fault. I don't even like Maeglin, let me tell you. I was so busy loving over Finrod AND THEN this horrible horrible lady sidles up to my Discord DMs full of eye emojis and OFC we had to write it. How can I refuse? I can't. We have too many Same Hat vibes. A collab is the only way to go lmfao
- Maeglin has a blonde kink. It is so hilarious to exploit. Prescinding from the canon fixation on Idril, my own first ideas of this courtesy of another Silm friend is that, well, what if Maeglin met another blonde that could cancel out his doom? Finduilas was the ideal candidate.
- But then why not raise the stakes and make him go for the Ultra Blonde of the family -- Finrod.
- We are many chapters in advance, but the basic premise is this all takes place post Bragollach -- Turgon just doesn't know how to handle his nephew and heir presumptive (bruh, maybe not executing his father in front of him was a start, idk, just our opinion) -- so he sends Maeglin to the place he HOPES can cheer him up: that is, Nargothrond. (And find a wife too, Maeglin, so you stop pining after Idril, k? K.)
- So Maeglin goes to Nargothrond. Sees the Ultra Blonde of the lot, 2/3 forgets Idril and chases after Finrod, whom to his immense surprise returns his affections.
- But Finrod has his own baggages. Maeglin has to share his glittering, golden one with two other elves and a dwarf (he is lucky Beör is dead and gone at this point), and one of the elves has been with Finrod since the Years of the Trees.
- I can't risk any more spoilers, but Maeglin's arrival in Nargothrond will definitely alter events, and maaaaaaaybe even be able to overcome a certain Doom. Maybe. We'll see.
- BTW, Maeglin is an excellent battle strategist. (He should go to Himring and nerd with another Master Strategist there who spends 90% of his time imitating a popsicle) Mairon you better watch out.
I'll let skaelds add to this once she wakes up LMFAO 🤣