Do you just mercilessly delete them? Do you keep them in some folder in case you change your mind? Do you use a strikethrough font and delete when finished?
Especially when main characters spend most of the time together. Or do you keep switching different POVs in different chapters?
I always imagined it as an island, because to me it makes more sense as a banishment. And now I noticed that on fan made maps it is just in Aman. Although I am not sure how correct they are, since many put Formenos almost in the middle of Valinor instead of the North?
I mean.
What is more realistic: one of the most powerful Maiar lost to a dog for some unexplainable reason OR one of the most manipulative evil guys pretended to lose to gain something from it?
Just an Age later Sauron does this very thing, pretending to yield to Ar-Pharazon to orchestrate demise of Numenor.
My conspiracy (not sure what is the better word for it) theory is that Sauron actually was able to get information that Beren and Luthien were after Silmaril, and got tired of Morgoth and his desire of destruction instead of order, and so was glad to let Luthien loose on Morgoth. (Sadly for everyone she never planned on trying to kill him).
This would explain why Sauron kept Beren alive, "lost" to just an animal and was never mentioned working for Morgoth again.
And overall it would fit to Sauron's character and lore better.
Share your conspiracy theories with me.
There was no volcano nearby to fall into in a good tradition of Maedhros and Gollum. So I am here to hear your speculations.
I personally believe it would lead directly or indirectly to Doriath being attacked to Morgoth armies, since power of oathbreaking seems to bring cosmic horror and be above of what Melian or Sauron could do and naturally Thingol being cursed would bring down kingdom with him.
What were they doing in first ages? Were they always against Morgoth and Sauron?
Or did they even not exist before the Third Age? Did Eru create them, or were they the result of something else (like being descendants of Maia or something)?
I really like zombie shows focused on surviving the damn zombies. I am a big fan of the first two seasons of The Walking dead, for example.
So naturally I really liked the first season of Black. But was completely disappointed when started watching the second season, because instead of zombie apocalypse survival, it looks like it became yet again another show focused on people with guns shooting each other. And the decision of non-chronological storytelling seems very out of place. I watched 2 episodes and it was really boring imo.
Does it get back on track of being focused on the zombies later in the season?
I mean, it's just basic physics that energy can't just disappear, only turn into other types of energy or matter.
So what happened to Sauron's power contained in the One Ring? Magic is another form of energy after all. And we know that the majority or Sauron's power was contained in the Ring.
Was Sauron's power just absorbed into the very being of Arda? Wouldn't it make Arda more marred and the ending of LOTR more hopeless? And according to Morgoth's Ring wouldn't it make Arda a new Ring for Sauron? (Although I am not sure how making world into a "Ring" was beneficial to Morgoth) Or would it maybe mix with the power of Morgoth and help Morgoth be more powerful in the Last battle?
Or do you think Sauron's power wasn't absorbed into Arda, but something else happened to it?
>Then Meglin was bidden fare home lest at his absence men suspect somewhat; but Melko wove about him the spell of bottomless dread, and he had thereafter neither joy nor quiet in his heart. Nonetheless he wore a fair mask of good liking and gaiety, so that men said: "Meglin is softened", and he was held in less disfavour; yet Idril feared him the more. Now Meglin said: "I have laboured much and am minded to rest, and to join in the dance and the song and the merrymakings of the folk", and he went no more quarrying stone or ore in the hills: yet in sooth he sought herein to drown his fear and disquiet. Adread possessed him that Melko was ever at hand, and this came of the spell; and he durst never again wander amid the mines lest he again fall in with the Orcs and be bidden once more to the terrors of the halls of darkness.
>Mole-folk about his door, and these were the grimmest and least good-hearted of folk that Meglin might get in that city.Yet were they free Noldoli and under no spell of Melko's like their master, wherefore though for the lordship of Meglin they aided not Idril
It pretty much changes the whole story if Maeglin were under the spell controlling him.
It would also tie up this paragraph that was included in the Silmarillion, but never had real payoff
>But ever the Noldor feared most the treachery of those of their own kin, who had been thralls in Angband; for Morgoth used some of these for his evil purposes, and feigning to give them liberty sent them abroad, but their wills were chained to his, and they strayed only to come back to him again.
It really sounds like this paragraph was meant to foreshadow this idea.
(Although I am not really sure how will control works if Osanwe kenta says that it's impossible to open unwilling mind, but maybe osanwe and controlling spell are different things?)
What do you think?
One would think that being the smith who made 3 elven rings he would've been character of great importance.