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This is a really fascinating take on reembodiment - I love that Turgon thought he'd figured it all out, considered himself "cured", and then realised that things weren't as clear-cut as that. Above all, I love how sensible Elenwe is: There is no cure - there is nothing to cure, actually - just the need to figure out how to live with the imperfections.

 



Thank you very much!

I tend to be a bit cautious or sceptical about a stay in the Halls curing elves completely of everything, anyway--especially when I am myself engaging with the thoughts of re-embodied elves in writing (that possibly just shows the limits of my imagination!). I am not sure that there is nothing to cure at all, for Turgon, but he is certainly over-simplifying and is in danger of trying too hard to fix the wrong problem. 

Turgon seems to me to be wavering in canon between a slightly too-rigid orthodoxy and other impulses that are much less orthodox and that he doesn't fully acknowledge.

I am glad you like sensible Elenwe!

Poor Turgin, once sick of Tirion, now disillusioned, and homesick for Gondolin ... he's fortunate that he has Elenwë's insight to point out his blind spots.