Just because I’m curious: what do you think happened to Maglor/what are some of your favorite theories about what happened to him?

I’m surprisingly (for me) okay with not really knowing what happened to Maglor. I sort of like his open-ended destiny. But when I do ocassionally wonder what happened to him, the three options that tend to come up are: He died during the sinking of Beleriand (Tolkien says he walked along the coast, and that…

Maglor, The Feanorians, and Remorse

The Feanorians are so complicated. It’s what makes them such great characters, of course (and, I can only assume, really awesome subjects for scholarly work as well.) But it does mean that opinions on Feanor and his sons vary widely among fans – evidenced by the fact that I don’t think I’ve ever written a…

Do we learn anything at all about Maglor’s wife at any point? Like if she was alive during the time that him and his brother were raising Elrond and Elros, what ethnicity of elf she was? Or anything at all really. I just read somewhere that he had a wife but I can’t find any info on her and now I’m curious!

We know absolutely nothing about Maglor’s wife – we don’t know if they were married in Valinor or Middle Earth (if they were married in Valinor, we don’t know if she followed Maglor into exile or stayed behind.) There’s no mention of Maglor having any children, but we don’t actually know for sure. As for…

Who Originally Owned Narsil?

(Okay, this came up because of a post I wrote yesterday in which I mentioned that Narsil was originally owned by Maglor… and then later realized that we don’t actually know that for sure. As soon as this is posted I’ll edit that first post with a link to this one, which explores who might…

I’m just curious, but what would’ve happened if Beren and Luthien stole all three of the Silmarils instead of just one?

Aside from some specific logistical issues (would Carcharoth tried to eat both of Beren’s hands, assuming he was holding all three silmarils at once? Or would he have stopped after just the one hand? And just how much bling was Thingol willing to put on his new and improved Nauglamir?) I’m not sure it would…