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"Move farther north," Caranthir says to her a month after the attack, gaze steady on her even as his hands continue briskly gutting fish. "There is plenty of land closer to my fortress, and my people can help protect yours if there is another attack."
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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A Chieftain is dead. And whilst the events surrounding his death are unclear, a son tries to come to terms with his loss.
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This is unbelievably sad. Of course, we know the story, tragic for both Elves and Dwarves, but there is something particularly moving that your protagonist seemed unemotional. And yet, the last paragraph packs a punch in the gut.
And I thought, all of that grief and death because a bunch of demigods couldn't keep their mouth shut, only they had to demand the Silmarils. They should've known better.
Thank you! My protagonist is looking at this from much later in life, so probably after even worse things have happened.
Everyone should have known better - jewels are less important than lives (so are Trees, when they can come up with another way to make light). Just stop, every character!
Everyone does, and this war should have been so avoidable - if the Sindar hadn't killed the Petty-dwarves, if everyone wasn't obsessed with jewels, if things had just been slightly different, nobody would have had to suffer (except because of Morgoth, but still, less suffering).
Thanks! They were too young to hate each other, but still ended up hurt by the politics and beliefs of their older relatives, which is an all too common story.
This was very moving, all the more so because your character is (now) so far removed from it. The individual fates of the "supporting cast" of the Silmarillion can be just as heart-breaking as the big events, and your story illustrates this perfectly.
Oh, ouch. This packed quite a lot into such a short piece. An interesting argument for Thingol to make, that the Silmaril was owed to him for the life of his kin, and one that left him very open to the dwarves' claim of the Nauglamir. And of course, the human fallout...
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