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markasite:

Fandom: The Silmarillion
Pairing: Thingol/Melian, but Thingol is truly just a stage dressing here
Rating: Gen
CW: birdmonster!Melian is best Melian. 

The explanation of my headcanons behind this drawing accidentally a prose. The art piece was for @legendariumladiesapril, prompt: Beginnings, and also accidentally ‘Fanon’ and ‘Abstracts’. I am in fact that slow 😀


Her husband’s people insisted on referring to it as her true form, but it wasn’t. She didn’t – she wasn’t like Tulkas or Oromë or the matter-shaping maiar of Aulë, to need a body to realise her part in the song of Ëa. She was- was the quality of sound that made it music rather than noise, harmony rather than discord. Her nature held no inherent physicality, but she would, in the springtime of the world, wear a shape to better hear the nightingales sing.

It was not her true form, the shape her husband had first found her in, but it was her most comfortable body, if she chose one, the assemblage of the world around her naked spirit that was easiest to put on. Elu had loved her in it at once. 

His people were afraid of it.

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piedpica:

Luthien meeting Melian in birdmonster form for the first time. WIP grey on white because I was doing the underpainting in purples and it made Thingol look like an anemic Drow, which was offputting in the extreme.

I had a bunch of complicated headcanons as to why this came to pass but they became a ficbit which is over here for organizational purposes. 

Artwork for @legendariumladiesapril! Melian should get more everything, tbh.