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anghraineI normally try to restrain the impulse to dive back into Silmarillion discourse hell, but there’s Eärendil and Elwing wank in my activity bar, and … damn, some people want them to be proto-Aldarion and Erendis so much.
Tagged: #i actually can imagine that aldarion himself /did/ see his relationship with erendis through an eärendil-elwing filter #until it became manifestly obvious that it was in fact radically different #and even then he's like ... the real problem was not having matching lifespans!! #but that's a separate matter
heget responded:
link? (also i wonder how many children of active duty service members might have a different read to what i bet this hot take is)
I replied:
Oh, it’s nothing new (different post, same take as usual), but I was just thinking over it and like … the whole dynamic that gets promoted in these takes seems so much more like Aldarion/Erendis+Ancalimë than Eärendil/Elwing+the twins.
Tagged: #i actually can imagine that aldarion himself /did/ see his relationship with erendis through an eärendil-elwing filter #until it became manifestly obvious that it was in fact radically different #and even then he's like ... the real problem was not having matching lifespans!! #but that's a separate matter
heget responded:link? (also i wonder how many children of active duty service members might have a different read to what i bet this hot take is)
I replied:
Oh, it’s nothing new (different post, same take as usual), but I was just thinking over it and like … the whole dynamic that gets promoted in these takes seems so much more like Aldarion/Erendis+Ancalimë than Eärendil/Elwing+the twins.