Just Four Besties Chilling In The Forest

Just four besties chilling in the forest

E'er She Looks the Other Way...

or: tmw you bring flowers for your not-crush but she's busy sculpting another chiseled naked man

Aaaaaaand my second piece for TRSB 2023 !!

Some hurt-comfort russiingon for @russingon-week

Day 3 - Song

Beleg leaving the lands of the living.

the transition from people needing each other to wanting each other is literally one of my greatest weaknesses that shit makes me want to walk into the sea and sit on the ocean floor for a thousand years

Maedhros didn't give up kingship.

In the Silm it sounds like he went to Fingolfin and said "I don't wanna be king anymore, it's your turn." because it's so shortened and his giving up of the claim to the crown is put BEFORE the council.

In The Grey Annals is a longer version where the council VOTES, on who should lead the Noldor. And Fingolfin wins. Maedhros ACCEPTS the decision (unlike his brothers) which could be called "waving his claim to kingship", yes, but it's still a very different situation than in the Silm.

The kingship going to Fingolfin not by Maedhros initiative also fits the whole "dispossessed" epithet a little better. The kingship is rather taken than given away.

(Also interesting is that it seems like that Maedhros might have become king if Caranthir hadn't behaved that badly at the council.)

Here's the bit from The War Of The Jewels if anyone's interested: