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Choices by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Mar 2020
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Having recently joined Melkor in Utumno, Mairon finds himself entertaining some less than seemly thoughts about his new master.
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- Part 1 of Ends and Beginnings
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Cataclysm by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Mar 2020
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Melkor creates ice for the first time, and Mairon dwells on his master’s nature.
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- Part 2 of Ends and Beginnings
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Heart-to-Heart by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Jun 2020
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In which Gothmog and Thuringwethil have cottoned onto the fact that Mairon is in a new relationship and decide to interrogate him about it over a flagon or five of ale.
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- Part 3 of Ends and Beginnings
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Red is your fate by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Oct 2020
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Melkor had spotted you. His eyes locked with yours. The light of them struck you, blue and piercing and hurting. You could not look away.
Deep in the bowels of Utumno, there is a chamber that Melkor uses for his experiments: breaking apart the bodies of countless Elves just to see what they are made of.
It is in this chamber that Mairon finds himself in the midst of something unexpected.
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- Part 4 of Ends and Beginnings
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Strongbox by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Nov 2024
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This, all of it, was Mairon’s idea. His dutiful lieutenant, his resplendent Maia, sidling up to him as he worked in his rooms, as with a quill he inked a diagram on an empty book-sheaf. And in the diagram an instrument was depicted, a tool for bodily investigation whose construction Melkor was refining, and it was one Mairon had not encountered before.
May I? he asked, bending his fair head over the page, running his glittering index finger just outside the not-yet-dry outline of ink. He was curious. He had questions. Melkor answered them plainly, and Mairon nodded as he listened, and though his face was schooled into unerring neutrality, Melkor heard the slight quickening of his breath, noted the darkening of his eyes to murky sand-storm gold.
Could you show me? Mairon requested at last. A… demonstration, if that is not too much to ask; and so here they are.
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- Part 5 of Ends and Beginnings
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The Shape of Hunger by crackinthecup for katyamola
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Jan 2026
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Melkor holds his gaze, and he gifts him a smile slow and indulgent as torture.
“Have I made you beg already?” he asks, mocks, silk in his voice. “What will you do when I bury myself to the wrist inside you?”
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- Part 6 of Ends and Beginnings
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A Little Experiment by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
27 Sep 2020
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Mairon’s lips look bloody in the firelight that flickers over the walls of Melkor’s bedchamber.
Melkor can’t take his eyes off him.
Or: Mairon wears red lipstick and Melkor shows him just how much he approves of his new look.Series
- Part 7 of Ends and Beginnings
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Distraction by crackinthecup for elevenelvenswords
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Apr 2020
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Mairon can’t stop thinking about his work and turns to Melkor for a distraction.
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- Part 8 of Ends and Beginnings
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What’s in a name? by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Sep 2020
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Mairon cursed the damn jewels upon Melkor’s brow and their unrelenting light; he cursed the Valar for imprisoning his master and he cursed Ungoliant for maiming him. Melkor had returned to him from beyond the Sea like a husk of a god, a vessel filled with less holiness than hatred.
Since his return from Valinor, Melkor has been cold and distant, more ruthless than ever before. When Mairon makes a suggestion during a council meeting, Melkor sees treachery where none was intended and decides on a lasting way to make Mairon’s place clear: putting his name on Mairon’s body.
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- Part 9 of Ends and Beginnings
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A little like water, a little like light by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
08 Sep 2020
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“The coming of the Elves was unlooked for. As was your return with the jewels, if I might add, and the war that it has brought.”
“Careful, lieutenant. You keep the true intent behind your words veiled from me, but your tone is plain enough. The Silmarils are mine by right. I will not surrender them for the sake of anyone or anything on this earth.”
Long years have passed since Melkor’s escape from Valinor, years filled with war and bloodshed, disappointment and resentment.
After exchanging harsh words with his master, Mairon decides to join an outgoing company of Orcs during what will later come to be known as the Dagor Aglareb.
But not everything goes according to plan.
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- Part 10 of Ends and Beginnings
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Moments by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Aug 2024
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“The sortie was a triumph,” Mairon says, holding the helm upon his lap and gazing up into his face. He smiles a smile that grows and stretches, wider and wider, as though there is something within him that cannot be contained. Something vast. Something keen. “Beleriand is open to us. Those who thought we could be penned in, who thought our might the lesser, lived to regret such misapprehensions. Or,” he adds, showing his teeth, “did not live, as the case may be.”
Melkor is drawn to that smile, to the something—vital, beguiling—underneath it. He reaches out. Places the leather of his gloved palm and fingers upon Mairon’s cheek. Beneath the leather, pain tingles, his burned skin protesting the contact. Mairon nuzzles against him, eyes flickering shut, a noise issuing from him that is happy and mindless, like the purr of some great pleased beast; and Melkor forgets the pain.
“Congratulations are in order, I should think,” he tells him, “to the brilliant mind who engineered this victory.”
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- Part 11 of Ends and Beginnings
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Violation by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Feb 2020
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Mairon finds himself on the receiving end of one of Melkor’s less than gentle moods.
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- Part 12 of Ends and Beginnings
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Acquiescence by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Mar 2020
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Melkor was a black hole, vast beyond comprehension, destructive, celestial; and he was the lonely planet locked in orbit around him, kneeling to him not out of fear or impassive duty, but out of stupid, boundless love.
Or: an exploration of abuse at the intersection of love and loyalty.
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- Part 13 of Ends and Beginnings
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Outlet by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Apr 2020
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You were tangled up like a ball of barbed wire, and you latched onto the one thing that could loosen the knots.
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- Part 14 of Ends and Beginnings
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Time Well Spent by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Feb 2020
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“I should whip you again,” Melkor said conversationally from where he was sprawled among the pillows in his bed, watching Mairon as he examined himself in the mirror.
Mairon turned. A smile flashed across his face, a small one, hiding secrets. “I need to be able to sit down, my lord.”
Melkor’s gaze darkened. He moved to kneel up on the bed, reaching for Mairon and drawing him close by the waist. “Not if I have you on your back all day.”
A teasing little laugh left Mairon’s lips. He wound his fingers in Melkor’s hair and tugged, hard. “I have meetings.”
“Cancel them.”
“I have meetings with you.”
“I’m sure whatever it is can wait.”
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- Part 15 of Ends and Beginnings
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place by crackinthecup for elevenelvenswords
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Mar 2020
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Melkor has a surprise for Mairon.
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- Part 16 of Ends and Beginnings
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The Metal Cage by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Jun 2020
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In which Melkor decides to keep Mairon chaste for a few months and Mairon is not best pleased about it.
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- Part 17 of Ends and Beginnings
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Edge of a Blade by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Mar 2020
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Melkor claims he loves Mairon and in his own twisted way, that may very well be true. But it is not a gentle thing.
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- Part 18 of Ends and Beginnings
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Burnt Nerves by crackinthecup
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Aug 2020
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In which Mairon is due to head out on a mission in the morning and Melkor has something memorable planned for their last night together.
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- Part 19 of Ends and Beginnings
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Just This Once by crackinthecup for elevenelvenswords
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
12 Dec 2020
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"Mairon opened his mouth, but no words came out. He did not know how to even begin to articulate the feeling that had gripped him, love that was lust that was a dark, fierce craving throbbing in his stomach: a need to touch and to possess, to take Melkor and break him open until the boundaries between lord and lieutenant ceased to matter.
He was Melkor’s, that much was true, had always been true; but Melkor was also his."
It is a night of revelry in Angband: spirits are high, drink is flowing freely, and Mairon makes a bold request.
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- Part 20 of Ends and Beginnings