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I like this!  Maedhros was certainly broken after the Fifth Battle, and you have Maglor explain why he went along with it so well.  He will not forgive himself, I don't think.  Interesting that he mentions Miriel, not Finwë, at the end.  I can see how that fits.

Glad you enjoyed it! I always saw Maedhros as being broken by the Fifth Battle in a way he wasn't before and so he no longer kept himself or his brothers back from following the oath. In fact I tend to suspect he ahd a deathwish himself.

Maglor intrigues me because he is the only one to survive which to me makes him a bit harder and smarter than the others, not neccssarily altogether nice but fascinating ;)

This version of Maglor at least sets down the problems of the family in particular and noldor in general to Miriel's choice. After all had she chosen to live things would have been very, very different.

Thanks for the fb

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 Uli

I don’t know how I didn’t find this sooner, but I absolutely love it... It fits with my vision of post-Nirnaeth Maedhros perfectly, and your characterization of Maglor was excellent.  This was a good explanation of why Maglor is the survivor – “I still missed you, I ached for you every day and night during the years that followed, I still do, but I was unable to break.” And the bit about Miriel at the end was interesting: it all comes back to her, doesn’t it?  So overall, very nice work.

Thank you very much :)

I'd say there was certainly something broken about Maedhros after the Nirnaeth whatever the reason was, after that he seems to have stopped holding his brothers' back. Maglor I think, in one way, was the hardest of the brothers, He was the one that survived, the one that just kept going. I think there may have been a streak of cynism in him to be completely honest.

 

And yes, so much of the history of Beleriand was set off into motion with the death of Miriel...

What a dark, sad tale of Maglor's fate.  The way you described Maedhros' and Maglor's emotional state towards the end was also gripping:  "He had been broken so long and he was the only one I had in these shores."  and "they crushed whatever life was still left in him and after that he merely existed."  A sad, sad end to a once-proud and noble house.  What I like the most about the Feanorians is that they are so tragic and so "human".  Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for reading :)

 

I am glad you liked it. And yes I like the humanity in the Feanorians (or maybe that should be the Finweans) as well, makes them a lot more interesting to me than someone like Luthien who was just too perfect. And the tragedy of Feanors house is that all that promise and brilliance in the end came to nothing.