First of all, my apologies for not even replying to your beta request. I've been, um, fairly behind on getting RL work done.
Now to my actual comment. Turin's realisation about Lalaith is the hint of bitterness in this fic; I can't get that line out of my head. The rest of it reminds me of the hopeful, longing tone of parts of LotR, because I read your fic as being about... not only the transience of gladness but the awareness that they need to savour it while it lasts. Morwen has been through enough, and has enough uncertainty in her life still, not to expect more. Even this more fortunate Morwen and Hurin obviously know how fragile that beauty is. And of course we know what 'really' happened, which makes your AU at once sadder and happier. I also appreciate the lack of, well, tragedy in this fic, because canon (at least Sil canon, since I haven't read CoH in a long time) went a little far with the angst and woe.
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Now to my actual comment. Turin's realisation about Lalaith is the hint of bitterness in this fic; I can't get that line out of my head. The rest of it reminds me of the hopeful, longing tone of parts of LotR, because I read your fic as being about... not only the transience of gladness but the awareness that they need to savour it while it lasts. Morwen has been through enough, and has enough uncertainty in her life still, not to expect more. Even this more fortunate Morwen and Hurin obviously know how fragile that beauty is. And of course we know what 'really' happened, which makes your AU at once sadder and happier. I also appreciate the lack of, well, tragedy in this fic, because canon (at least Sil canon, since I haven't read CoH in a long time) went a little far with the angst and woe.