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  1. breakaway on Chapter 13 Fri 12 Jan 2018 05:10AM UTC

    I've been so busy the past two months that only now have I been able to sit down and read this excellent story! I really enjoyed the relationship between Elrond and Maglor in Return to Aman, and it's wonderful here to get to explore the relationship Elrond and Elros had with Maglor and Maedhros as they grew up, how they became so fond of them. I appreciate Maedhros's efforts at arguing with the twins about why things are the way they are, and I appreciate that news of Elros leaving can end with them all going swimming and just enjoy the last time they'll all be together. Maedhros won't dare take them into his house for fear of putting them under the Doom of the Noldor, but they're clearly a family. Trust Elrond to come up with a solution!

    As for Feanor, I can't imagine watching my children go off and do all the things the Feanorions did, but that Oath affects him, too, and he was never the most mentally stable person. Still, to push his sons on to revenge, watch things fall apart, and then wonder what's wrong with them.... You are what's wrong with them, Feanor. I'm surprised he's not more perturbed Maedhros can see him when only Ainur and other dead elves can/are supposed to be able to. Anyway, I loved the conversation Feanor had with Fingolfin post-Morgoth battle, and the realizations he came to watching said battle, and the understanding that came out of it with his brother. The conversations with Sauron are very good, too! Feanor may not talk much, but he has good conversation partners when he does.

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    1. bunn on Chapter 13 Fri 12 Jan 2018 09:58AM UTC

      Great to hear you are enjoying it! (I started writing Return to Aman as a response to this really... there is so much that is sad in the First Age! Having set up the 'love grew after between them, as little might be thought' I found that I so wanted Maglor and Elrond to be OK!)

      Yes, I fear that part of what is wrong with Feanor's sons is indeed Feanor. He has rather been acting as a sort of personification of the Oath. Oh dear. But it might not be *entirely* his fault...

      But he is not perturbed Maedhros can see him. He is Feanor, he's done the impossible plenty of times, including his own death, OF COURSE his eldest son can do things that are supposed to be impossible. Maedhros is 'as one who returns from the dead' and in this version of him, he's also the son who focussed on the 'arts of mind' rather than the 'arts of hand': so he's good at philosophy and debate, but for elves that is not very different from being good at certain kinds of enchantment that relate to life and spirit and states of being.

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