WIP Snippet
Apr. 6th, 2026 05:58 pmGot tagged in a snippet game over on Tumblr and I thought I should share it on here as well! Maybe I'll make it a weekly thing, might be a good way of keeping myself on track re: writing. Obviously things are later liable to change during editing.
So anyways! Here's a snippet of my no-good-terrible Elwing/Maedhros arranged marriage AU. The short of it is, Elwing gets rescued before Uinen can get to her, and now the Fëanorians have the Silmaril but also two small children and their very angry and traumatized mother on their hands. Maglor (who is technically canonically married according to the text, not that we ever see his wife. I should do something about that at some point) decides that Ëarendil is clearly dead (on account of the "no sailing west" thing as well as the "half-human" thing) and that Maedhros marrying Elwing would solve all their problems! It solves some diplomatic problems but that's about it (it also creates new ones). This particular snippet is part of a conversation between Elwing and Maglor:
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So anyways! Here's a snippet of my no-good-terrible Elwing/Maedhros arranged marriage AU. The short of it is, Elwing gets rescued before Uinen can get to her, and now the Fëanorians have the Silmaril but also two small children and their very angry and traumatized mother on their hands. Maglor (who is technically canonically married according to the text, not that we ever see his wife. I should do something about that at some point) decides that Ëarendil is clearly dead (on account of the "no sailing west" thing as well as the "half-human" thing) and that Maedhros marrying Elwing would solve all their problems! It solves some diplomatic problems but that's about it (it also creates new ones). This particular snippet is part of a conversation between Elwing and Maglor:
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