Thank you! Maedhros doesn't just know exactly that Fingon isn't paying attention to him, but he is also declining to be humoured like a victim you have to be sorry for (or, worse, a soulless wreck!).

I would be so delighted if you wrote anything about a light-hearted conversation that Maitimo and Findekano had in Valinor! I hope you do! I was a great deal moved by Love by Moonlight, especially by your delicate description of Fingon's endurance. However, I couldn't help thinking in an irreverent corner of my mind: Why are you nattering on about allegiance, Maedhros, when you are talking to the person most loyal to you in all of Beleriand (except perhaps Maglor)? Well, you notice this is the summer version, so to speak! (Umm... I didn't want to weigh the piece down too much with notes, in case people thought it was all very slight and silly, but in terms of the series, this is after Maedhros has decided that it’s all right for him to be in love with Fingon, as long as he doesn’t let Fingon know, so playing the same trick on him that he played on him once in Valinor is a bit of a smoke screen, a way of saying: Look, things are back to normal between us, in spite of everything that has happened since! That also might throw some light on why his voice sounds as it does...)