Celegorm and Curufin explaining the Luthien situation to Maedhros
i love maedhros and the whole fandom loves maedhros which is great until you have to balance very carefully between people who say "maedhros was evil" unironically and the "maedhros did nothing wrong" (also unironically) kind of guys
tolkien fans: "omg you HAVE to read the silmarillion so you can know about my poor little baby blorbo finwenduwë"
the blorbo in question:
not pictured: the six brothers who showed up to portrait day covered in ink, mud, soot, or all three at once
Last one, Maedhros :)
Daily Affirmations
- I am more than the sum of my wounds.
- I will bring honor to my family's name.
- I am not dead. I blaze with fire.
- I am as skilled in combat with my left hand as I had been with my right.
- I have come too far to turn back now.
- I burn. I burn. I burn.
- All around me there is darkness and solitude, but I live, and they do not touch me.
- Not yet.
- My hand is stained with blood, cruelly but not unrighteously.
- I am honoring my word.
- My own men will turn from me, horrified at my black deeds, but my last brother will not abandon me.
- I will not look at what I have done.
- I will not turn back.
- Certainly one more massacre will fix things.
im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities
look sometimes the most popular character in a fandom is deservedly so. sometimes the fandom gets it right. “popular” does not always mean overrated. YES this is about Maedhros why do you ask.