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Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.” “It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?” “It’s not as though I…
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I think maybe Luthien, Beren and the Silmaril are all mainly symbols to him--they stand for something else rather than themselves. But Huan and he were real to each other. Perhaps that is rather too solemn a thought for such a short piece, though...
I find it rather terribly tragic than funny (as I told you before) and I think that losing Huan was a huge blow -- the greatest one of those sad news Celegorm received. You conveyed his feelings very well. Greatly done!
Poor Celegorm. I was amused by this, in a "aw, he loves his dog so" way combined with a "this is morbidly delightful" way. And I think the current title works well.
Awww Poor poor Turko! To me it reads that he has resigned to the fact that he lost his dog to someone else, but even in the end she did not live up to his high standards of dog care?
More or less! After all, she is the daughter of a Maia and she bested Morgoth, but when Huan has to fight his greatest enemy, she is not even around... I suppose she had her reasons, but I guess Turko feels she could have tried harder.
This really breaks my heart, as the relationship between Huan and Celegorm is one of the purest int he Silmarillion, in my opinion - I was rather pissed when Huan without warning suddenly betrayed my dearest Tyelcormo.
I think too that after everything that happened, this is the hardest blow for Celegorm yet - by defeating him and Curufin Lúthien showed that she had the strenght to care for Huan, that she somehow deserved his loyalty, so to say, and that in his eyes she's failed in her single most important task.
It is really a very hard blow for Celegorm, I think. And I do think (on some level, at least) Luthien had gained his respect and so he had expected her to protect Huan as much as Huan tried to protect her.
You could argue that Huan didn't really leave Celegorm quite without warning, though. At any rate, he went back to him, the first time.
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