Thank you very much, Dawn! I'm really glad you liked this! You did bring out in the bio, I think, what the destruction of the Havens must have signified to Pengolodh himself--something that I've skated over very lightly here. But yes--it's not just Pengolodh--none of these other immortals have quite the same emotional distance from those events that a few generations in between would give them either--if it didn't happen to themselves, it happened to their parents or grandparents and the aftershock is still felt, as it were. Also, yes, that glimpse of Pengolodh possibly still revising and tweaking his history in Tol Eressea was actually meant to suggest some such association with Tolkien continually revising his Legendarium! And he would perhaps have gone on doing so, even, if afterlife permitted something like a sojourn in Tol Eressea to him. Also, thank you very much for the rec! I really appreciate it. My visits to Tumblr are very unsystematic and I'm sure I miss a great many things over there.
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Date: 2016-03-06 08:02 pm (UTC)You did bring out in the bio, I think, what the destruction of the Havens must have signified to Pengolodh himself--something that I've skated over very lightly here. But yes--it's not just Pengolodh--none of these other immortals have quite the same emotional distance from those events that a few generations in between would give them either--if it didn't happen to themselves, it happened to their parents or grandparents and the aftershock is still felt, as it were.
Also, yes, that glimpse of Pengolodh possibly still revising and tweaking his history in Tol Eressea was actually meant to suggest some such association with Tolkien continually revising his Legendarium! And he would perhaps have gone on doing so, even, if afterlife permitted something like a sojourn in Tol Eressea to him.
Also, thank you very much for the rec! I really appreciate it. My visits to Tumblr are very unsystematic and I'm sure I miss a great many things over there.