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Blood and Darkness Part 5

Oct 18, 2005 14:06

This is the final part of 'Blood and Darkness'. The first four parts can be found here.

Title: Blood and Darkness Part V
Author: fanged_geranium
Challenge: "How would things have been different had Morgoth murdered Maedhros instead of Finwë?"
Challenge issued by: tarion_anarore
Rating: General
Warnings: Kinslaying, Perfidious Valar

( Blood and Darkness Part V )

blood and darkness, general fiction, elwing, maedhros, valar, fingon, fanged_geranium

Comments 6

tarion_anarore October 18 2005, 19:33:10 UTC

Thanks also to tarion_anarore for being evil enough to suggest the idea in the first place!

Always glad when my evilness is appreciated! ;)

Very nice. Such an interesting take!! I'll be waiting to hear how this all affects the 2nd Age...

fanged_geranium October 19 2005, 06:26:08 UTC

Very nice. Such an interesting take!!

Thanks!

I'll be waiting to hear how this all affects the 2nd Age...

So am I at the moment!

tarion_anarore October 19 2005, 15:19:20 UTC

So am I at the moment!

LOL! Those tricksy muses...

fanged_geranium October 19 2005, 16:10:23 UTC

I'm sure they'll let me know what's going on in their own good time. I've got the story planned to about half way through the Second Age, but after that the details get a little vague!

dawn_felagund November 15 2005, 21:12:52 UTC

Ah, so nice and twisty, and I love the angle that Mae is now working to free his brothers. This is an interesting angle created by this challenge that I hadn't thought of until reading this: That Maedhros, free of the Oath, would be torn between stopping his brothers' foul deeds and dooming them to the darkness--or aiding them and becoming no better.

I smiled at the digs against the Valar too. Sounds like many a conversation we've all had! :D

I join Tarion in being eager to see how Mae and Fin frolick through the ages! :)

fanged_geranium November 16 2005, 10:24:23 UTC

In my opinion Maedhros really is no better, because he stood by and let two kinslayings happen, but that isn't the view that the Valar take (in my AU or in the Silm); standing around and watching people get killed while doing nothing to stop it is a perfectly acceptable activity for Ainur.

I had to get some anti-Valar propaganda in there somewhere!

I've only written random bits of the sequel so far, so it might be a while before I have anything fit to post. I'm having trouble writing all the political stuff without making it sound too modern.