The short career of the fanfic writer The Mole by Himring

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Fanwork Notes

For the Beginners' prompts of the Matryoshka Challenge.

Hopefully, this is too cracky to need warnings, except a heads-up that this Maeglin is more or less the kind of storybook villain he tends to be in  the early version in the Fall of Gondolin (with canonical one-sided Maeglin/Idril).

 

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Summary:

Maeglin tries his hand at the Beginners' prompts of the Matryoshka Challenge (Total crack)

Major Characters: Maeglin

Major Relationships:

Genre: Crackfic

Challenges: Period Drama

Rating: General

Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 296
Posted on 24 May 2025 Updated on 25 May 2025

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Oh dear. (And of course he would burrow into your brain when you were trying to fall asleep! Inspiration, and the lack of it, is such a funny thing!)

Yes, he did burrow in the most mole-like fashion! Glad you were amused!

There certainly is something recalcitrant about inspiration. Sometimes it only comes when you have already concluded it won't, and often it takes surprising swerves and twists.