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Nice work! Unlike others who've commented, I like the style and organization better than the moral instructive tone of the poem. But it certainly works extremely well within the context of the text. Always been one of my favorite little disputes in the text--two valorous knights defending two worthy ladies. It really reeks of the courtly love tradition, doesn't it? So chivalrous in tone and resolved so nicely in the story itself.

Another of those instances where the reader is reminded that Tolkien was not only a linguist but a medievalist.

 



Thank you very much, Oshun!

I hadn't set out to write meta or instruct, really.

I was mulling over the prompt and thinking that I had already written about Daeron and Maglor and probably couldn't say anything else worthwhile about them.

Then this happened and I thought I'd better go with it and stand by it...

In a way it's quite odd for a quasi-Scandinavian dwarf and a quasi-Anglo-Saxon king to be indulging in a cleaned-up version of courtly love. But really, no odder than some of the things that go on in the medieval texts Tolkien was familiar with; they weren't purist either.