Fics that never were

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The ideas I had for Holly Poly.

• A fic set in a The Last Guardian-like setting. It would have started with some Caranthir/Curufin/Maedhros smut, with background OT8, and then shifted to some platonic Míriel/OT8. Platonic because Míriel has turned into a half-tree creature when Fëanor took her from the Halls of Vairë to their new home, since Míriel had a physical body and things went a bit awry. Her top half is still elven, but the rest of her are roots, and the roots spread throughout the settlement. Hidden among the roots are the Silmarils, therefore the roots also carry and spread out the light that powers everything in the place. She alternates periods of slumber with periods of wakefulness during which she can still embroider and weave and be happy with her son and grandsons. 
• Maglor/Gildor/Ivárë in Rivendell, with witch!Maglor and fire-shaman Ivárë. Ivárë would have been a relative of Maglor in this - possibly Míriel's father - whom Maglor summons because "when flame burns bright inside one's mind, kin heed the call across lands and time" (lifted straight from Hollow Knight), and he would have probably had a shady past (dabbling in the black arts and whatnot)
• When Maedhros dies he slips into the Void with the Silmaril, where he meets his dead brothers and father, Finwë and Tórin, and the lot of them move into a new world that is created inside the Silmaril from a memory of their last happy moments in Formenos. They manage to draw Maglor into that world (because again "when flame burns bright inside one's mind, kin heed the call across lands and time", Tórin says, and Maglor is all too happy to die and move where his fathers and brothers are) and manage to steal ''Eärendil's'''Silmaril too. The main issue then is how to bring Celebrimbor in? Curufin is ready to go out and bring him back, but Fëanor is afraid. Of course Curufin does go out (with Maedhros and possibly Celegorm). Arguments with Celebrimbor ensues (with Curufin having the upper hand with "okay, but you tried and failed here...trusting a shitty Maia of all things!"). In the end Celebrimbor makes it into the Silmaril-world (possibly someone has to kill him?). Basically the fic would have had OT8, Fëanor/Finwë/Tórin and Celebrimbor/Celegorm/Curufin (and any other combination really).
• A wintery counterpart to Sweat it all out. Maedhros and Maglor make it back home from shopping, Caranthir is outraged that they would go out and buy shitty man-made presents, Celegorm and the twins come home from hunting for holiday meat, Curufin is always experimenting and Fëanor just wants to make sure that each son's favourite tea and biscuits are ready.
• (Not really a shippy fic, but inspired from "Heart of Void": the Void actually agrees with elves, and ending up there turns Fëanor and his six dead sons into powerful half-empty creatures. Cue creepy reunion with Maglor.)