Talk:Maedhros

Brilliant! The note on stats is interesting. Back in 2004/5 I thought Maglor pipped Maedhros in the popularity stakes, but I might have been wrong. The other place to take account is ff.net, where there used to be Maglor/modern Mary-Sue stories by the cartload. Sadly only a small fraction of ff.net stories are character tagged, and they'll be the more recent ones, so they won't necessarily be a representative sample. Maglor is ahead at AO3 (Maglor 97, Maedhros 73), SoA (Maglor 87, Maedhros 62) and Faerie, but way behind on LoM (probably because Maedhros/Fingon is such a dominant slash pairing). It's also possible that Maedhros has overtaken his brother in that time frame. Espresso Addict 07:30, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Interesting additional stats! Aside from on the SWG, they seem to be pretty close. (SoA's probably higher for Maglor because of the lack of slash, if I were to speculate.) I'll try to get some mention of this added, so that there's a more balanced view. (I went with SWG and HASA because they seemed to have the highest number of Silmfics except for ff.net, which as you note, only recently allowed character-tagging.) Dawn Felagund 21:38, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

You're right about SoA vs LoM. In my experience, ff.net is heavily biased towards het romances. I'm not sure what explains AO3, which is usually slash focused, but it could easily have been swayed by one or two prolific writers putting all their back catalogue up. I have a suspicion that multifandom archives might tend towards Maglor > Maedhros, while Silm-heavy archives might have the converse, because Maglor in history-type stories can be written (and read) with little Silm knowledge, while Maedhros is more of a hard-core Silmficcer taste. I've edited The Silmarillion to state Maglor & Maedhros together are the most popular, which seems pretty safe -- see what you think of the wording. Espresso Addict 08:47, 5 September 2012 (UTC)