Question (potentially for fic)

[kenazfiction]

Yeah, still farting around with the story I started in September and it's going nowhere slowly. Boo. (keiliss, your plot bunny is strugglingBut as an intellectual exercise, I'd like you guys to weigh in on this question: Imagine Glorfindel and Ecthelion are having a heated discussion about choice vs destiny.. It's after the Dagor Bragollach, they've

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[ysilme]

I don't have canon or fanon knowledge to back this up, as I haven't thought that much about Glorfindel in Gondolin, and the other inhabitants. Read the occasional fic, though, and what the Silm has to offer, as well as the odd bit of the HoME. But the Glorfindel that comes to my mind first would have indeed argued in favour of action can change your fate. This was a kind of instant reaction on your question on my part, backed by the thought that he perhaps would not have taken up the fight with the Balrog otherwise. Thinking further about this this probably doesn't even make sense, but to me, it feels like a man who's ready to fight such an overwhelming enemy, and might perhaps have already known that he had no chance of survival, is the man who would also believe that he can change his fate through action.

[keiliss]

Glorfindel went with Idril, which suggests to me that he thought fate could at least be given a run for its money. Ecthelion stayed at his post basically, fighting for his city. It's subjective, but this is my instinctive response to the question.

(Bunny needs a good shake, it's acting just like the final chapter of my wip - damn uncooperative.)