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Rekindling the Flame
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AU in which instead of smashing the Sun and all that, Melkor breaks out from his captivity in the Void to search for Sauron (or rather what remains of him after the destruction of the One Ring), despite his servant being now useless, stripped of his palpable form and unable to affect the world or even communicate without energy being supplied to him.
To preserve him, Melkor is forced to absorb him and mingle the Maia with his being. Which is what Mairon has been begging his master to do for a very long time anyway - to give him this Final Reward, and simultaneously let him stabilise the fallen Vala from within.
(that’s where my past cute glowing doodles of Melkor happy in Valinor stem from)
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