Comments on Survivors: A Pair of Drabbles

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A very evocative look at the time just after the sinking. How desperate and alone and devastated Maglor must fell at this point. (Actually he's probably been feeling desperate and devastated for a long while, but it's different in company.)

Thank you!

This was written as an insta-drabble, so I did not have much time to think about when exactly it is set. But I vaguely imagined this as not being immediately after the sinking although it is his first return to this particular area. He is still very desperate but I suspect he would not have managed to be defiant quite in this way right after Maedhros's death. (Also, immediately after the sinking, this area may have been quite dangerous to be in, given the changes on the map.)

Although they both receive literal sweetness, the contrast of her nephew's experience of the comfort he receives with her experience with Caranthir is stark.

This atmospheric drabble makes me think of the long life of Elves, and how they must have visited the same places in different times, hit by strong memories like Maglor here. They thought they were desperate on that day, when they had not yet reached the bottom of their despair. Angsty and good. I hope he’ll find shelter in Carathir’s keep.

Thank you very much, elennalore!

Yes, that would be similarly true of Celebrimbor as well, of course, if he ever returned to the Ered Luin!

I am afraid that Maglor won't find shelter in Caranthir's keep, at least not if this piece is in the same timeline as my story "The Sea Comes for Helevorn". I wrote there that "The remains of Caranthir’s house are obliterated, as well as anything else that still endured there."