Mercy, Love by Elleth

Chapter 5

When the Sudden Flame has burned its course and all the news of ruin comes on raven wing and by dust-choked, war-worn messenger, Fingolfin rides away northward, and never returns.

Fingon breathes easier when the crown and confirmation come to him. Maedhros stands at attention in the crowd, his burning eyes upon his new Lord. When the three of them - his wife, Maedhros and himself - retire afterward, it is Maedhros, who tastes of ashes, who speaks Fingon's own gratitude and grief into his mouth.

"At least your father was not captured, nor conquered. At least he was permitted to die."