Oh my, a tiny hint of eroticism to spice up the morning! These glimpses into the early life of Elrond, before he becomes Arda's greatest lore master and most sanguine elf on the planet, gives him so much more three-dimensionality for me. A stammering, stuttering, totally flummoxed (in a delightful way!) Elrond is so different from the one I know; it makes him so very charming! You capture his yearning hope and the sudden fulfillment of his aspirations wonderfully here.