"The Choices of Spirits"

[dawn_felagund]

Title: "The Choices of Spirits"
Author: dawn_felagund
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Heterosexual sex, violence, and mature themes, including discussions of death
Summary: Caranthir falls in love with Haleth of the Edain, and their lives--and fates--become forever entwined. This story examines the AU relationship between Caranthir and Haleth and how it might have

Comments

[jilba]

Lovely. I like the ending, that somehow beyond death, they found each other again.

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! :) I wasn't too sure about the ending; I don't usually give in to the urge for big dramatic prologues and epilogues, but it seems to have worked.

Thanks for reading!

[jilba]

No, it's ok, it's a lovely ending. Somehow, I think the Valar would help two such spirits to be together in death, it hardly seems quite fair else. I mean, if an elf and a mortal can fall in love, and in some cases have kids, it doesn't seem quite right somehow that they are seperated in death.

Haleth and Caranthir are to be envied their fate, I think.

[dawn_felagund]

I've always found myself fascinated by the mention in LaCE that Elves can resist the call of Mandos and remain amid the lands that they love. Tolkien doesn't elaborate a whole lot on that, but I think that for it to have been recorded in the history, it must have happened enough--or to important enough people--to be worth mentioning.

Also, my husband and I are very interested in the paranormal in the mortal realm, so I put the two together and got the ending! :^D

I've never believed that there weren't other mixed couples aside from those mentioned in the books. With the degree of mingling between Elves and Men, it seems inevitable. And I agree that most of such pairings would not have ended favorably. :^/

[jilba]

I agree whole heartedly with you, and yes, many elven spirits must have wandered ME. Tons of em, maybe they were drawn to settlements of people, maybe they weren't.

And Ta for the big hairy hungry plot bunny. An elven warrior and a mortal serving maid have been bugging me for the last two days to write their story. She insists she's a half elven mortal, but I don't know I believe her..yep, in the first and second ages, tons of elves and mortals must have fallen for each other, and maybe married, but we only hear of the important ones, the Princes and Princesses.