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Published: 2017-06-24 03:45:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 10564; Favourites: 197; Downloads: 11
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Maglor hiding in a cave by the sea, bandaging his burned hands with strips torn from the hem of his surcoat.His fingers would have been burned as well, but I like drawing fingers... take it from me that he does complete the job and wrap up the fingers as well after this moment.
Part 1 of 3. Next: the twins search for him & Maglor wandering the shores.
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This is such a a delicate and expressive piece! The lighting, the mood, I love it.
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Some days ago I have searched fanfics about Maglor after the first age, sadly not much interesting findings.
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I feel so sad about him here. Very well drawn expressive work!
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Thank you! (Maglor always makes me feel sad too...)
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With skipping the description first: That's a picture with a lot of expression and emotion to it, especially when one considers the background. Looks like he's already on his mournful journey, alone and off the societies, retreating to lonely caves instead of homes or campfires. He still looks young like being fresh from Aman. The clothes partially ragged, but then there are still the ornaments that give it a hint of nobility. His expression stern, and not actually happy with the world, but still somehow determined, at least to get these wraps fixed. Very good work.
With description: Must re-read these parts (I memorized more the parts of the Silmarillion until Finwe died, then everything went down the drain anyway 
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Thank you!
Yes, Maglor at the end stole the remaining two silmarils with his brother Maedhros, but after all the evil they had done, the jewels were too pure and burned their hands so terribly they could not bear the pain. Maedhros threw himself into a chasm of fire, Maglor threw his jewel into the ocean. He must have suffered from the burning for quite a while after that!
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Ohhhhh this is amazing....and I am sorry I took so long to see your note to me. I don't check in often enough here. I am the co-author of a really long and elaborate modern age Thranduil fic published on AO3, and we are just now getting to the place where Maglor enters our tale. I write a great deal off of the visual prompts I see from artists whose work lines up with my emotional vision of the character...this is going to have a place in the story, I believe, as an image for when *this* happened. Your drawing is wonderful...
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Thanks! And you're co-authoring a fic? I find the process of that intriguing, as I'm such a control freak in the creative aspect that I cannot imagine writing anything with anyone!
Since Thranduil and Maglor are two elves who are likely to survive through the seven ages till the modern day, I think fanfic writers would find it irresistible to have them cross paths at least once somewhere in history (I did!) Given their history the meeting is absolutely going to be high drama. And I'm really chuffed if my art is a prompt for the work of others!
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Ack sorry! I don't check in here often enough, and much of the time only see replies when DeviantArt sends me an email telling me something is here. And they often take their time about it. Anyway. Re: the Nerdanel painting, yes I can see why you might have criticisms about it but...keep in mind that your skills are so far above what most of us can do! I don't quite have as much of a mind for visual art...or maybe I should say, I have not had the time or space to really honestly try. Maybe I could, but I have to invest the effort and I'm too busy writing at the moment. So instead I am just grateful for those of you with the talent!
Yes I write with a partner as well as have my own solo projects. I am guessing my works would not appeal to you, since they have adult content and I noticed that you do not seem to care for that. I have a very deep interest in all elements of psychology, including sexuality. It is not tasteless, but I completely understand that there are people who have no wish to read works of that nature--no offense taken. I have only one story that is rated teen and has nothing explicit in it, and that version of it is only on fanfiction.net. It is a Thranduil story called The Huntress....and otherwise everything else I've done is rated Mature. But back to the cowriting...it is a collaboration that takes place in real time using Google Docs, which allows two people who live anywhere in the world to write together. We both had a body of our own stories and characters, and brought them together to tell a huge tale. It's already over a million words with no end in sight. In this modern era fic one of the premises is that JRR Tolkien wrote his tales because Maglor and Pengolodh came down through time living among humans, and in the 20th century found themselves running a book shop in Oxford. They met the professor, and their decades-long conversations and secret friendship (he was not of course allowed to tell anyone he knew real elves!) resulted in the stories we have today.
We each control certain main characters, and quite often a lot of discussion takes place on chat to determine plot directions, character reactions...it is a really huge investment of time. I've also begun recently working with a second writer who has created a vast archive of over 500 stories...basically designed to tell the tale of every elf ever mentioned in JRRTs legendarium. She has been writing fanfic for more than 15 years and is an academic and...I have learned a great deal from her friendship and her storytelling. While not all of it is canonical, it has helped me especially get a grasp on the events of the First Age which sometimes can get a little...difficult...to parse out on one's own!
I too am a sort of control freak but it is expressed differently on the big cowritten fic. I'm the one in charge of proofreading and story organization...I maintain our documents that have our storyboards (each chapter has main plot points summarized there), calendar dates, character biographies, etc etc. And at the end of the day, I still have my own solo projects as does my writing partner. Collaboration can be a great deal of fun with the right partner!
Thank you again for your reply and I look forward to reading more of your works when I get a spare minute (those are hard to find!)
best <3
Ann
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I cannot express how precious the thought of Maglor and Pengolodh running a bookshop in Oxford and meeting Tolkien is!! (Just how those two elves made peace enough to go into business together would be a whole story in itself, given that Pengolodh wouldn't love the Feanorians for the massacre at the Havens of Sirion).
I think one would need to find a very special partner indeed for that type of collaboration work. Your styles would need to mesh, for one thing. I'm glad that you two are having fun, and the story idea is great! All the best for that!
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I have given a lot of thought to Maglor (who hasn't?) and Pengolodh was chosen because of how much he was used as a literary device in connection to tales like the Aelfwine story, etc. I really wanted a scholar, and one connected to the concept of the Straight Road. In my brain, Maglor is very aware of his crimes and repentant...but convinced that none of that could matter, in view of the wrong he has done. He sees himself as having been weak and foolish, to have gone along with his fathers and brothers. I felt it reasonable, given that the sons were collectively just not that old when all of this came about. They lacked life wisdom, and their father was powerfully charismatic. It seemed reasonable to me that Maglor, the most temperate of the bunch, could have been swayed to do what he knew deep down was wrong.
So I have them having paired up sometime in the fourth age, at a chance meeting when Pengolodh was about to sail to Valinor with Elrohir and Elladan and the last of the Imladris library collection. Basically, Pengolodh sees Maglor's musical and poetic gifts as a sort of living art, and refuses to believe that what he sees as a treasure should be allowed to perish. He's intuitively aware that if Maglor is left alone, he will slowly go mad and fade, not necessarily in that order. And he determines that this won't happen. So there really isn't much to make peace about; Maglor freely confesses where it went wrong; he's already had the better part of three ages to ponder that point. He is completely stuck, emotionally. Unable to ask the Valar for forgiveness because he is convinced his crimes are unforgivable. There's lots more aside from that, we are sort of tackling the entire concept of Eru's corrupted music and the whole spiritual restoration theme. I mean, why not? We were crazy enough to write this much, we figured we'd leave no proverbial stone unturned.
And your Glorfindel and the Balrog....oh my goodness, that expression...please just keep the Gondolin coming. I seriously cannot get enough of it!!
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Your headcanon of Maglor fits in perfectly with mine. And I like the (unusual/original) idea of a Pengolodh who (1) would choose to forgo Aman in order to care for a living repository of lore and art, (2) has so powerful a devotion to lore and art that it would override of memories of the Feanorian atrocities, & (3) has perception and sympathy enough to see and accept Maglor's true nature and form a friendship with him.
I'm glad you liked my new version of Glorfindel and the Balrog. Yes, I am planning more Gondolin art (just wish I had time to work on it). Thank you!
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Oh, my poor wandering darling... I love your way of painting Maglor, he's almost boyish in a way, looks young and lost and lonely. Which he is, of course, well not young, but the rest... Kinslayer or not, he doesn't deserve this fate.
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My elves have a way of turning out looking ridiculously young if I draw them quickly, and this was a quick(ish) sketch!
I fully agree. I never felt he deserved it. But one of the reasons why I love him so much is how he breaks my heart by choosing to be an eternal outcast, a lonely wanderer upon the earth.
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Nice. I like the details, especially the bandaging on the hands.
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Thank you! (Though for serious burns he would wrap them much more loosely... but I hated how sloppy and shapeless the bandages looked then... )
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Such a pretty picture!
Maglor's face makes me sad
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Thank you!
And so that means I have been successful in portraying Maglor as a sad character...
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Thank you so much! I appreciate it.
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