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shrikeseams · 1 year

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I love that au idea!!! (What about findis though?)

I can't lie, Findis is like. Schrödinger's Finwian to me. Does she exist? Does she not? Depends on what's convenient!

In this instance, while we could certainly push Feanor and Nerdanel's elopement... there just feels like way less pressure to flip the birth dates. What does it matter if Feanor's eldest is slightly older than Finwe's third eldest and second son?? Findis's presence has already legitimated the Finwe-Indis marriage, and without finwe asking feanor to not make their private muddle public... I can't see Feanor agreeing to give the seniority to Fingolfin. Unless you make elopement extremely scandalous? Which still doesn't quite do it for me. 🤔 I'm open to suggestions, though!

#Tolkien #Part of what makes this fun to me is that #By the very act of asking feanor to let fingolfin have (false) age seniority over Maedhros. Finwe has set up the competition.#And seems to be favoring fingolfin over feanor's line #But feanor's also afraid that if he doesn't agree then it might make people think there's something sketchy about feanor's marriage #Like assuming that maedhros was actually conceived before marriage etc #The kind of thing that would be no big deal if feanor felt secure in his political and social position. But he doesn't!#san shoots the breeze

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