cycas:

classicalcassiopeia:

Maedhros’ life is literally one of those story prompts where you’re playing a video game and you have to make all these hard choices and you don’t realise til the end that you were the villain all along

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

- Gandalf

I bet though that you are right that Maedhros ended his life *believing* he was the villain, and that’s almost sadder!