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Maedhros and Maglor Week Day 1: Treelight
Treelight.
It spills from the box in a glorious familiar mingling of silver and gold when Maedhros opens the lid, and Maglor is captivated despite himself. This is what they have paid so dearly for, these last precious scraps of light that their father preserved and even though he has for a long time now not thought them worth the cost of their souls, he still not cannot look away.
For a moment Maglor is caught up in the memory of standing beneath the shining, flowering canopies with Maedhros, bathed in light and song. He is breathing in the sweetly scented air of his childhood, home again after so terribly long. For one perfect moment everything is right, the Trees are above him and his brother is beside him. Maedhros looks up, awash in gold light that sets his hair glowing like fire, and a strange horrible foreboding grips his heart.
There is no going back.
The Trees are gone and with them the innocence they once had.
In his heart Maglor knows it.
He blinks, sight clearing the memory away and his vision fills with Maedhros’s face as it is now: brittle, drawn with sorrow, and weary with the burden of the Oath.
His brother does not look at him, focused on the jewels that have been their goal for so long. Maedhros will not to let anything, not even him, turn him from them now that he is so close.
The light that surrounds them is forgiving, untouched and pure inside the jeweled containment it shines through, but even as Maglor’s hand draws near he knows that what now surrounds the light is not so kind.
His eyes are already filling with tears, the light of the moon turning them to silver on his pale cheeks.
A moment before his fingertips brush the glittering jewel, he hears Maedhros scream.
@maedhrosmaglorweek
'old bright songs of their childhood' - aka Maedhros and Maglor (Tiny Edition)
Inspired by a little moment in @thelordofgifs' the fairest stars where Maglor sings childhood songs to Maedhros and Maedhros believes himself to be back in Valinor for a moment.
@tolkiengenweek - another one for 'family' since their relationship is one of my favorite sibling relationships in Tolkien's legendarium 💗
Bonus sparkly 'Song' version that I wasn't really sure about under the cut:
Windows of Opportunity - Drag0nst0rm - The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien [Archive of Our Own]
At this point, Gil-Galad had not had any particular expectation of ever meeting Maedhros.
He certainly did not expect to turn around and see him climbing through a window.
Nelyafinwe Maitimo Curufinwion (Maedhros Feanorion), when he was still young and happy in Valinor. I don't know why but I have always pictured him with short hair.
Quick sketch (about 30 min) on infinite painter.