#and elrond doesnt have to lose anyone else

[sesamenom]

i like to think that sometime when they were younger, after elrond first told them why they couldn't meet uncle elros, they agreed to make the same decision so they could stay together.

also its interesting if out of all the peredhel El-twins (elured & elurin, elrond & elros, elladan & elrohir) one is more mannish and the other is more elvish

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[kanalaure]

actually you know what, while im thinking about maglor when am i not? there's this persistent thought i keep having

idk, maybe im missing or forgetting a chunk of the novel, but. maglors thoughts and motivations abt the events of the silm just... dont seem to exist til around the sirion-kinslaying era? not that he doesnt have any, thats not what i mean

i mean.... he's fundamentally a follower, despite technically having been acting high king of the noldor for longer than his father and maedhros and fingon combined. whatever he actually thinks about alqualonde, or doriath, or the oath or doom in general, he keeps it to himself (really, he's remarkably quiet about his feelings for someone who's so famous for being a singer, poet, and historian that that's frequently mentioned before the whole kinslaying mess(es)) and sort of goes along w what he's told to do. right up until he takes in elrond and elros, which is painted as his decision in the published version (if not all the drafts, but thats another discussion). and after that he voices relief about the silmaril being placed in the sky when it first sails no 'secure from all evil' isnt making me cry bc i believe he included himself in that category, i'm just cutting onions. at midnight, and later his reluctance to keep going down this path. and its just interesting to me, how him and mae seem to have opposing arcs about it?

bc maedhros starts off strong. he goes to beleriand to revenge their grandfather and doesn't actually seem to give a damn about the silmarils. he refuses to burn the ships, he makes himself a mighty enemy to morgoth, for centuries, and then... the nirnaeth, he loses fingon credibility, and celegorm slides into that void of leadership. doriath happens, and maedhros didnt want to go, but in the end, does, doesn't find dior and nimloth's boys, and just... seems to give up, between then and sirion. because its definitely him who orchestrated that attack, and later he argues with maglor until he caves and they make that last horrible run on the silmarils

this doesn't really have a point, per se. i just had the thought, and it keeps grabbing me at odd moments, so i guess i'd like to hear what anyone else thinks about it