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You’re so very, very good at making poems and stories that are liberally mixed with grief and hope, and since that mix is one of my favorite things ever I am always so excited to read your work! You’ve packed a truly impressive amount of references and dynamics into so few words here — the tentative nature of the start of their marriage giving way to genuine and deep affection and love (I’m very glad to have separately read your poem about their first dance together as that added lovely additional depth to the allusion to it here!!!), the foreboding elements of frost  and other hints at the specifics of Arvedui’s fate (“frost at bay” oh noooo!), and Firiel becoming the crucial origin of the whole line that was sheltered in Imladris until eventually Aragorn arrived to help right the world and avenge his ancestors. It’s all so, so good! And I love the choice for it to be Arvedui’s laughter that is living on in his heirs — we don’t think of them as a particularly joyful group, but the capacity to find and appreciate moments of joy is critical to sustaining hope so it seems like a very fitting element of him to highlight. (Plus it’s very comforting to think of Arvedui as having had lots of opportunity in his life to laugh such that the sound of that echoing laughter is a distinctive element of him to Firiel.) This super short form has got to be SO hard to work with but you do it so well!