#excelp eol

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So I was thinking about Doriath again, and about how I'm pretty sure C&C never told any of their brothers anything except "we duelled Beren and imprisoned Luthien to stop her from interfering" (which is an obvious understatement, but the others would not compensate enough for it, I think they would imagine some unhonorable fighting and murde attempt, and that's it).

And I thought about Caranthir, who was there with those two (it's a common fanon that 3 Cs died in roughly the same time and place and the other brothers weren't there).

About Dior, charging at Celegorm and calling him out, and Caranthir, the always easy to anger Caranthir, yelling "How dare you!" and running at Dior and getting stabbed by one of the Sindar, and the last thing he sees is Celegorm's extremely guilty face confirming everything Dior just said, :(

And the other brothers never even learned (Elwing did not know, I think, it's not a story you tell to children), maybe Maglor learned eventually, from Elrond's historical notes (let's not even get into Elrond's feelings about it) compiled from fragments of tales of the Sindar who survived.

And then in the Halls of Mandos, "you tried to do what—"