This one ended up very "vampy" but was actually inspired by "Of Maeglin and the Fall of Gondolin." This is ... not a popular character, partly because he's drawn in broad and incestuous strokes, and once the crawlers have a chance to pick this post up I'm really tempted to see where this post falls in Google search results for the name.
Amusing and illustrative anecdote here follows: I got in a bit of trouble with one of the major online Tolkien communities when I was about thirteen, because the point of the story is that the title character is an unwise merger of the two great elfy-awesome bloodlines (back in the mythical past; the distinctions are not terribly relevant by the time of the Lord of the Rings films, but the echoes of it are still visible to the discerning eye). Now, The Silmarillion says very specifically that the character is white-skinned. In so many words. However, since his father is referred to as "the Dark Elf," and since I read the tale as being partly a story of biracial issues -- I had chosen in my little fan creation to deal with biraciality in the visible manner which would be most recognizable to the twenty-first-century American reader: to depict him as darker-skinned than the first cousin he was lusting after and basically went all Wuthering Heights on everybody.
Needless to say (to anyone who is familiar with the majority of Tolkien scholars), this did not go over well.
Tl;dr; Chelsea is really damn weird.
Anyway.
Treasury.
'For You I'd Burn the Length and Breadth of Sky' by tangopig
Blood red and black. Passion turning from love to violence. Title from a song by Vienna Teng, inspiration from The Silmarillion.
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