Thank you for taking the time to read and leave such a kind review! I had very good models for the twin's characters in my nieces, and also for the adult-child interaction from the time I worked as au-pair in France. Nost-na-Lothion is a canon festival in Gondolin, but I learned about it only after a previous version of the story was finished and I asked my flist for a suitable name for the festival I had created. It is mentioned in the Book of Lost Tales Vol.2 on page 171-172. I adapted it to my purposes but changed also my original festival, and the result seems to fit well into the Imladris culture I'm imagining. And it is indeed celebrated with the purpose you mention, the joy and gratefulness of having survived, not only a bitter winter, but also the loss of their previous home in Eregion. I'm happy you like the blown glass globes. One of the things I enjoy most about writing in this culture is thinking how things might have worked, and what people would have come up with who have endless time and experience at their hands; but also what they might create and produce just because they have so much time. We have similar ones with tea lights from a fair, and I thought they would be a perfect festive illumination.
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Date: 2014-03-28 11:26 pm (UTC)Nost-na-Lothion is a canon festival in Gondolin, but I learned about it only after a previous version of the story was finished and I asked my flist for a suitable name for the festival I had created. It is mentioned in the Book of Lost Tales Vol.2 on page 171-172. I adapted it to my purposes but changed also my original festival, and the result seems to fit well into the Imladris culture I'm imagining. And it is indeed celebrated with the purpose you mention, the joy and gratefulness of having survived, not only a bitter winter, but also the loss of their previous home in Eregion.
I'm happy you like the blown glass globes. One of the things I enjoy most about writing in this culture is thinking how things might have worked, and what people would have come up with who have endless time and experience at their hands; but also what they might create and produce just because they have so much time. We have similar ones with tea lights from a fair, and I thought they would be a perfect festive illumination.