AMC--Chapter Twenty-Six

[dawn_felagund]

I am rating this chapter for adults only for reasons of discussing topics about sexuality. There is no graphic sex--it is merely Macalaurë musing about love and marriage and children and his thoughts on all of these things--but I want to play it safe. If you're not sure if you want to read this chapter, please don't hesitate to contact me, as

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[fanged_geranium]

I like Feanor confronting Maglor about Caranthir's dream, and the way Maglor manages to deal with it.

Maglor's initial impressions after learning the facts of life are very amusing. I'd have thought that five was rather too young to give a child a technical explanation (even for a human), but then Feanor must expect his sons to be as precocious as him!

Nelyo had also already warned me about these “desires,” for it was no secret that what Nelyo felt could rarely be labeled with a word so innocent as “desire,” which seemed to me a term more applicable to wanting an extra cup of pudding with dessert than the commanding lust with which Nelyo was sometimes overcome.

ROTFL! No, that doesn't make me like Maedhros any better since he clearly feels no remorse about failing to live up to the ideals of LaCE! (More schadenfreude than sympathy, I think!) Poor Annawende, though.

*attemps to avoid arguing that Finwe couldn't have been much more than 1000 when he married, even with Tree Years*

I like that you've introduced an actual quarrel between Finwe and Feanor about the Valar.

[dawn_felagund]

I'd have thought that five was rather too young to give a child a technical explanation (even for a human), but then Feanor must expect his sons to be as precocious as him!

I'd say he does. :) But I was around that age when I learned the facts of life, through wanting to be an entomologist and encountering things that I didn't understand. Then my mom had to explain things to me...and whenever it was my turn for show and tell, I had to be sent to school with a reminder not to talk about "mating" to my class, as they probably wouldn't understand.

I think poor Macalaure was a little traumatized by it.... ;)

*attemps to avoid arguing that Finwe couldn't have been much more than 1000 when he married, even with Tree Years*

No need to argue! I admit that I'm dodgy on timelines. And canon in general. This will get changed during the edit. Thanks, as always, for noticing.

I like that you've introduced an actual quarrel between Finwe and Feanor about the Valar.

I figure that it couldn'tve been *all* happy sunshine between them. I don't think Feanor inspires happy, sunshiney thoughts in many people at all, all the time--even beloved Finwe.

[fanged_geranium]

I don't think Feanor inspires happy, sunshiney thoughts in many people at all, all the time--even beloved Finwe.

It adds a new perspective to Feanor leaving home as soon as he could - Finwe might have encouraged him to go!

[dawn_felagund]

In Felak!verse, they have a fight about his half-brothers, Feany storms out and goes to Mahtan's, tells Nerdanel he's leaving home and asks her to go with him. And the rest is history! ;^P