Unhappy Into Woe by StarSpray

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Fanwork Notes

Written for the following Orctober prompts:

    Mountain of Unspeakable Necessity (Mount Rerir) - Dungeon
    Broken Place (Tol-in-Gaurhoth) - Chains Scraping Against Stone 
    Silent Plain (Dor Dínen) - Stitched Shut

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Maglor's wanderings take him up the Anduin, where orcs find him and take him to Dol Guldur--where the Necromancer dwells. 

Major Characters: Maglor, Sauron

Major Relationships:

Genre: Drama, Horror, Hurt/Comfort

Challenges: Jubilee, Orctober

Rating: Adult

Warnings: Mature Themes, Torture, Violence (Graphic)
Chapters: 5 Word Count: 8, 957
Posted on 1 January 2025 Updated on 5 January 2025

This fanwork is a work in progress.

Table of Contents

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I just want to keysmash in adoration for such a fantastic start to what no doubt is going to become a fantastic fic, but Maglor taking his lessons from the Sea and trying the Ainulindalë approach of working Sauron's notes into his own song of survival is what absolutely and completely killed me in the best way possible. I adore this and can't wait for the next chapter! 

This is amazing! I like the concept of his voice making their ears bleed and driving one mad, and then how that actually just forms an introduction to what's to come. Maglor's song is marvellous, and cunning, he's definitely learned a few things in the years since all the happenings Sauron sings of. But Sauron is still Sauron, with vast power even when recovering his strength.

I'm riveted and really looking forward to the next chapter!

ETA I forgot to say how much I speak love the way he can hear the Trees and your description of them, being sick yet physically healthy. And the way Sauron's"energy-stench" pervades throughout, and your description of Sauron himself. 

And from the first lines of Maglor's song I was delighted!  The slow, gentle, inexorable power of water, and the power of its beauty too. Simply marvellous!

 

!!!.

Oh my gosh! This seemingly senseless torture is horrible. (In the best possible way.) Urgh, poor Maglor, so alone and bereft. And WTF is Sauron up to?

Well, you just keep ratcheting it up! 

The dream is so beautiful, your description of that beach!!! I love it and want to go there. So Sauron is now using Dreams of Power instead of Song. Clever. How on Arda Maglor doesn't cave... I guess hanging out for so long after everyone else is long gone, he's got some serious willpower. So Sauron's method behind the madness becomes plain, and for sure, Maglor is worth at least 9 nazgûl to him, if not more. And who is the person he's running to? I can't help wondering whether Elrond... I'll soon find out!

Marvellous stuff, thank you!

Oh dear, you were not joking about the whump factor of this! It keeps going up, painfully.

All the details and the arc are really well handled.

I find myself hoping that Maglor has not lost that connection with the Sea and that insight that he had gained, initially, beyond regaining, with the war of attrition that Sauron is waging on him. But surely not beyond regaining, in Arda...

Maglor is not in a good place right now. You have written his despair and disorientation so well, and the pointless beating scene was chilling and indeed well written whump. 

Poor Celebrimbor! And so cruel that Maglor has to relive his nephew’s torment. I like how you had pictured Sauron, not much more than a wraith, but still full of fire, and that burning gaze, and a face without expression.