Just read part 1, and have to say, it's everything I hoped for, and much more! I've been thinking about these two in this respect for a little while, and I really appreciate your take. And your writing is simply a joy. Little details that you include, like the four dogs and their character-matching names, and significance. And Aegnor's hair! "The ever untamable hair danced a precarious balance of appearing both unkempt and immaculate. ..."

And the implications behind this: "The hair, the tower, the martial cut of every robe—the youngest lord of Dorthonion ensured you never forgot the war lying beyond the siege lines without ever uttering a word."

And this: "he felt the pang of transience and gathered the image to him in deliberate preservation, solidifying it but turning the present into memory before its time." Such a truth, and not just for Elves!

I loved this: "But it is Anger held alongside her sister Sorrow, and tempered thus by the company.”
and this: "It was placing a river’s fish within the brined waves and saying to it, ‘live and breathe!’"

and this, is just... “Which nature would they inherit?” he asked at last, his voice heavy. “The father’s or the mother’s? And for which nature should one hope? For by the one inheritance a child would lose its mother ere it reached full maturity—with ever swifter passage for each successive offspring. Thus even in peacetime would the sundering we dread of war be achieved. Or should one hope instead for the alternate bequest? Would it be a kinder fate for the father to watch through ever gathering centuries as his children withered before him, his children’s children, and their children’s children—on through the endless years till he was nothing but a relic, fraught with pain?”

I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!