How children do change. Maitimo is going to be very grateful one day that he was so nice to his little cousin. To think that this little slip of a child is one day going to run off and do something so foolishly courageous as chop Maitimo off of a mountain side.
Interesting to see Uncle Nolofinwë and Aunt Anairë from Maitimo's point of view. Of course he won't see the same fire in them that he sees in Ada, but I have a feeling that they're not really as washed-out as he thinks they are. Nolofinwë is at least as self-possessed as Fëanor, but if you're Fëanor's kid and used to a more rough-and-tumble life than in the middle of the great city of . . . of . . . canned fish, you might not immediately see the subtleties of the city dwellers.
You'd think that with all the teaching going on at Fëanor's house, someone would have taught Macalaurë a few kitchen basics, some dishes that he could make without injuring himself. Or perhaps he's just too wifty to figure it out. Some people are like that, I guess. Lesson One for Macalaurë: Don't bother with boiling carrots. They're much better raw anyway, and summer is not the season to be making tzimmes.
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Date: 2005-08-12 10:25 pm (UTC)Interesting to see Uncle Nolofinwë and Aunt Anairë from Maitimo's point of view. Of course he won't see the same fire in them that he sees in Ada, but I have a feeling that they're not really as washed-out as he thinks they are. Nolofinwë is at least as self-possessed as Fëanor, but if you're Fëanor's kid and used to a more rough-and-tumble life than in the middle of the great city of . . . of . . . canned fish, you might not immediately see the subtleties of the city dwellers.
You'd think that with all the teaching going on at Fëanor's house, someone would have taught Macalaurë a few kitchen basics, some dishes that he could make without injuring himself. Or perhaps he's just too wifty to figure it out. Some people are like that, I guess. Lesson One for Macalaurë: Don't bother with boiling carrots. They're much better raw anyway, and summer is not the season to be making tzimmes.