Thanks so much, Wombat! I had a lot of fun with this story. Poor Elwing, I am always hard on her mothering skills. But I do like to believe that they were well-treated during the time when they were with Maglor and Maedhros and during that period, the circumstances were such that it could not have been Maglor alone who looked after them entirely.
I had a lot of fun with Celebrian. I like to try to characterize the named women in canon, who do not get a lot of space in the texts, but who most have been fairly incredible people. (I always think of medieval women among the nobility and gentry in our world, who were not only expected to be brood mares, but also to be managers and caretakers of often vast properties and military outposts in the absence of their husbands or along with him, and at times had huge numbers of people within their households and the surrounding lands who were dependent upon their skills in handing those tasks. I am sure not all of them were equally good at what they did, but neither were their husbands.)
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Date: 2014-03-18 01:52 pm (UTC)I had a lot of fun with Celebrian. I like to try to characterize the named women in canon, who do not get a lot of space in the texts, but who most have been fairly incredible people. (I always think of medieval women among the nobility and gentry in our world, who were not only expected to be brood mares, but also to be managers and caretakers of often vast properties and military outposts in the absence of their husbands or along with him, and at times had huge numbers of people within their households and the surrounding lands who were dependent upon their skills in handing those tasks. I am sure not all of them were equally good at what they did, but neither were their husbands.)