[ SECRET POST #6545 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6545 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #935.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (something about Arcane Season 2) - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

the more you talk about online LOTR fandom the happier I am that I don't engage with online LOTR fandom.

who the fuck do they think was literally commanding both Utumno and Angband for eons?? who else was making sure orcs were bred and monsters terrorized the Eldar while Melkor was chained up?? the will to think Sauron wasn't actually second-most evil for 10 thousand years is astonishing.

[philstar22]

Yup. It all started with really popular fic, the first big Melkor/Sauron fic, and it kind of set the tone for the fandom for a while. There is a pretty good split on takes, now, though. The power sharing take is much more common, and there are some great fics out there.

[(Anonymous)]

The nuance I'd like to see is Sauron as Melkor's sniveling sidekick, being extremely happy to participate in his lord's evil but then also being turned loose to commit to his own level of evil when unsupervised, as he was for so long. Just what did he do on his own for "three ages" whatever that amount of time was? How comfortable was he as the big dog until he had to scramble the Balrogs to go save Melkor from Ungoliant? There's so much potential in characterisation there, which I'm sure Tolkien never intended but set up nicely nonetheless.