Mairon: 30-Day Character Study by elennalore

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Fanwork Notes

My fiction entries for the 30-Day challenge are here (rating may change later). My non-fiction entries are posted on my Dreamwidth blog.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Ficlets and drabbles on Mairon written for 30-Day Character Study.

Major Characters: Sauron

Major Relationships: Melkor/Sauron

Genre: Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet

Challenges: 30-Day Character Study, Jubilee

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 4 Word Count: 416
Posted on 3 January 2025 Updated on 12 February 2025

This fanwork is a work in progress.

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Table of Contents

Prompt 3: Strong Points, Part One. Write a scene in which your character really shines at something. A 100 word drabble.

Prompt 7: Affiliations, Part One. Think about an important relationship your character has to another character in your verse. I wrote a 100 word drabble for this prompt about Mairon and Melkor.

Prompt 8: The Mirror Cliche. Write a scene where your character sees their reflection. What do they see? What do they feel as they see it? A 100 word drabble.

Prompt 15: Big Ideas, Part Two. Using one of the big ideas from Prompt 14, revise an existing fanwork so that this idea is more strongly emphasized or create a new fanwork that brings this idea to the center of the piece.

A 100 word drabble about Mairon as a muse. Like the first chapter 'Angband', but from Melkor's perspective.


Comments on Mairon: 30-Day Character Study

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I really resonate with the concept of Mairon balancing Melkor's chaos by being patient, organised, planning. And the fact that he had to adapt upon Melkor's return must have frustrating to say the least, even though he took it in stride.

... and this explains in part why he just took it all in stride. Which belies a hint of insecurity in Mairon — which indeed his life work may well have been to compensate for.

And then by contrast he has this totally confident side where he's totally in control and genuinely likes who he is. (And I like his sharp teeth! And his description of his pale face and hair that seems to have a life of its own!)