Thank you. Thank you! Yours is one of those very special comments, where I feel like someone read a story and responded to the things I hoped they would observe and be able to relate to.
Childhood is often idealized. I even do it with my own. But looking back one can observs how much children are aware of and how brave they are also. There is sometimes in fiction a sense that children are insensitive, understanding little, and feeling less somehow. I never thought that was true. Kids tell me the most incredible things, simply because I talk to them as though they are real people!
I love the line You quoted. It is one I felt was important to the story and how Elrond looked back on both Maedhros and Maglor and in my story, and how he was able to remain close to Erestor who shared many of their experiences.
The First Age Elves who survive do so with a lot of baggage! But what interesting survivors they are. I love history myself, so I can sort of relate to the experiences of looking back over long ages and imagining how one's perspective on those events might change over time. Studying history is like that for me--it does not stay in the same place, there are new discoveries and I keep learning as well and looking at things through an altered perspective.
Celebrian was very important to the story for me. She is a link between those two worlds--the First and Third Ages. She remembers the old Elrond and is completely committed to the one she has made a life with and he appreciates what he has in her--they are strong for one another, which makes her fate so tragic. Tolkien is cruel to his characters. That seems kind of obvious, but I do not always find a sense of history in the few stories around that include Elrond and Celebrian.
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Date: 2014-03-18 02:22 pm (UTC)Childhood is often idealized. I even do it with my own. But looking back one can observs how much children are aware of and how brave they are also. There is sometimes in fiction a sense that children are insensitive, understanding little, and feeling less somehow. I never thought that was true. Kids tell me the most incredible things, simply because I talk to them as though they are real people!
I love the line You quoted. It is one I felt was important to the story and how Elrond looked back on both Maedhros and Maglor and in my story, and how he was able to remain close to Erestor who shared many of their experiences.
The First Age Elves who survive do so with a lot of baggage! But what interesting survivors they are. I love history myself, so I can sort of relate to the experiences of looking back over long ages and imagining how one's perspective on those events might change over time. Studying history is like that for me--it does not stay in the same place, there are new discoveries and I keep learning as well and looking at things through an altered perspective.
Celebrian was very important to the story for me. She is a link between those two worlds--the First and Third Ages. She remembers the old Elrond and is completely committed to the one she has made a life with and he appreciates what he has in her--they are strong for one another, which makes her fate so tragic. Tolkien is cruel to his characters. That seems kind of obvious, but I do not always find a sense of history in the few stories around that include Elrond and Celebrian.