♦: Relationship with your Muses: They’re both driven by wild over-identification, wishful thinking, self-projection, and an iron-clad belief in my own perception of Tolkien’s piecemeal continuity, even when it directly contradicts the author’s stated views on his own characters.
♥: One thing you love about your Muses:
From a practical standpoint, I love that Sauron’s timeline spans the entire legendarium, because it means he usually has known whereabouts and goals during each era, canonical interactions with a huge number of characters, and hypothetically possible interactions with even more. It’s fun to extrapolate what he must have been doing behind the scenes in any given storyline.
I love Melkor because he is simultaneously profound and deeply ridiculous. His characterization in canon creates a lot of cognitive dissonance, because on the one hand he’s this powerful, terrifying force of anarchy, chaos, and entropy, and on the other hand he gets his hands caught in the cookie jar so, so often…
He screams at a spider. He skips giddily down a mountain because his evil scheme is going well. He gets his ass handed to him literally every time he goes out of doors, and then sulks about it. He’s the hottest demigod mess since Loki.
And when the pieces come together and you get just the right balance of eldritch horror, petulance, existential fear, and Wile E Coyote levels of success, he is deliciously satisfying.
♣: Any headcanons about your muses?: I am absurdly inundated with headcanons, so as an overarching example, I’ll say that both muses have distinct characterizations between different epochs of their timeline. Sauron in Utumno is different from Sauron in in the Isle of Werewolves, who is different from Sauron in Numenor, who is different from Sauron in Mordor. Melkor during the First Music is different from the Melkor that destroyed the Lamps, who is different from Melkor serving time in Valinor, who is different from Melkor in Angband.
They both change over time, and their views and interpersonal relationships evolve as they encounter more challenges, learn more about the Eruhini, and lose things they cannot get back.
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