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Sorrow as Song by XenoTatts
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium & Related Fandoms, The Hobbit - All Media Types
08 May 2026
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Summary
Wualuna is a Maia born straight from the Music of the Ainur, drifting into existence not in the light of Valinor but in the broken shadowlands outside Angband. Drawn to a dissonant sorrow she cannot yet name, she wanders into the Black Foe's domain and finds Melkor upon his throne. To her, he is not a tyrant or a fallen god. He is simply someone who sounds… hurt. What begins as curiosity becomes quiet companionship: a childlike Maia humming fragments of the original Music into iron halls that were never meant to hold anything gentle. But harmony does not heal dissonance, and she, who understands only music and balance, slowly learns that not everything broken can be repaired. When Melkor is cast into the Void, something inside her fractures for the first time. It is grief, sharp and unfamiliar.
In time, she leaves Aman and becomes a wandering presence in Middle-earth: a soft echo at the edges of despair, a quiet comfort in places where hope is thin.
But even after the ending of the Third Age and her return West, beyond the Doors of Night, where Melkor was cast, she sits and sings into the endless Void..Waiting, still believing that somewhere beyond it, the one she once called "friend" might one day answer.