What a sad backstory. I'd never thought of Glorfindel as having been married with children--it makes his tale that much more tragic and interesting.
I love it when people take (to me at least) a direction I haven't seen before with a canon character. I remember the pleasant shock of once reading a story in which Legolas was actually married, but his wife had sailed. Of course the default assumption has always been that he was not, but that's what makes a different interpretation so much fun.
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Date: 2016-03-12 03:02 pm (UTC)I love it when people take (to me at least) a direction I haven't seen before with a canon character. I remember the pleasant shock of once reading a story in which Legolas was actually married, but his wife had sailed. Of course the default assumption has always been that he was not, but that's what makes a different interpretation so much fun.