#sometimes when u write incredibly niche fic u remember that everyone insane enough to also be in this hole w u KNOW the timelines

[rarepairnation]

everyone clap finduilas is now present and accounted for in umbar fic. i had to drag myself kicking and screaming into not taking the easy way out and hand waving the timeline. not because i dont think she is absolutely key to denethor’s entire life but because. god could you make it MORE complicated? and i am just one guy and i can only hold so much in my brain. but sometimes things that are hard…are better. just. very dol amrothian finduilas who is completely familiar with the concept of a sea wife and a port wife vs very gondorian denethor who is convinced that he is doing her incredible disfavour by hooking up with thorongil Once in a high stress situation. it’s funny i promise (im not sure if it is. he’s very angsty about it. we gotta get this guy some polyamory). but for real denethor finduilas and thorongil as not-quite-narrative parallels is really good. for denethor to have been forced into viewing thorongil as a rival and finduilas as a partner even though they occupy nearly identical places in his life. waugh