I also love his account of less than perfect foster-dad Elrond--pretty refreshing.
Thank you. With a foster-father like Maglor, Elrond has to have his less than perfect moments as a parent.
I imagine that Aragorn's been so steeped in Legend and Great Tales from his infancy, he craves their antidote.
I think he mostly craves someone he could actually love and be a son to, even if only in imagination, because it's impossible to be the child of everyone else's hero. Yet that's what he's mostly getting - the hero, whom he can't know, can't love when it's a yardstick he feels everyone measuring him by, and can't reject, claim, or lay to rest as his father.
Their exchange about Aragorn's as-yet-unborn heirs is heartbreaking, of course, because Aragorn will outlive Halbarad, and his friend will never meet his children.
Which is why we write AUs!
*hugs Halbarad*
Eledhril's giving you the eye - just thought you should know.
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Date: 2012-03-13 04:34 am (UTC)Dynasty + premature deaths + have/are the phallus split = significant daddy-backed identity issues.
I also love his account of less than perfect foster-dad Elrond--pretty refreshing.
Thank you. With a foster-father like Maglor, Elrond has to have his less than perfect moments as a parent.
I imagine that Aragorn's been so steeped in Legend and Great Tales from his infancy, he craves their antidote.
I think he mostly craves someone he could actually love and be a son to, even if only in imagination, because it's impossible to be the child of everyone else's hero. Yet that's what he's mostly getting - the hero, whom he can't know, can't love when it's a yardstick he feels everyone measuring him by, and can't reject, claim, or lay to rest as his father.
Their exchange about Aragorn's as-yet-unborn heirs is heartbreaking, of course, because Aragorn will outlive Halbarad, and his friend will never meet his children.
Which is why we write AUs!
*hugs Halbarad*
Eledhril's giving you the eye - just thought you should know.