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A painful road to acceptance for both the brothers!

Interesting and thoughtful characterization of Maglor: it is a pretty impossible situation anyway, but his approach and parenting skills are clearly not up to it.

Fortunately, there is Enedlas!

The significance of the olives and the olive bread is well done. You feel the gratitude of a life saved, partly by chance.

Thank you, Himring! It is always lovely to get your comments! ❤️
I have been thinking quite a bit about Maglor recently and trying to reconcile the different aspects of his character. What does it mean to be someone who does not stand aside at Losgar, mighty and dangerous in battle, but who stills moves quickly to pity and is ready to surrender to Eonwë and the Valar at the end of the tale? And that is just in the published Silmarillion. He becomes even more deliciously complex when one considers the versions of canon where his epithet is just "the Mighty" not "the Mighty singer" and he either steals away the silmaril alone after deceiving Eonwë, or is the last standing when the Sons of Fëanor recover a silmaril and fight to the death for possesion of it. The one thing I do not think he is is weak-willed. So I wanted to explore the tension that might create with a desire to care for the twins, especially where grief and complexities are pushing everyone's limits. He really is not equipped well for the task. Enedlas really is the saviour of this story! 
I wanted the olives to be a little eucatastrophe! ❤️