Medium Dawn Felagund of the Fountain

Gotta say I have been reading your work for a long time, I just started blogging recently, but I don't see many light hearted or happy stories, except your Feanor comdey of course. Not that I think that a bad thing comdey is an escape from reality or making reality seem better by pointing out the ridiculous. The stories you write have the JRRT spirit of pure bittersweetness that so few authors can truly master, I would say Larry McMurtry is another. I disagree some with the academic and philisophical points made in the story, I only bring them up for later discussion you can respond if you care. I always wondered what it would be like to be the fly on the wall in the situation that you picture above, JRRT is ambivialent and ambiguous about the relationship between the last two Sons of Feanor and the Twins of Earendil, I have never been quite sure what he wanted it to be, love despite wrong doing or little love because of wrong doing. Clearly from the later source which are far more complete one can see Elrond's mark on the histories, and surprisingly it does little to repair the reputation of either the House of Feanor as a whole, the most positive attention goes to Maglor and Maedhros or course but not as much as one might expect. I guess even Elrond could bear a grude, or it could be because Elrond had hostility with Celebrimbor over the making of the Rings of power by the Smiths of Eregion, or succession rights and privilages. One of the things that fascinates me about JTTR universe is that is such a complete drawing board for the fan to create their own stories. I like how you made Maedhros a rather bitter war veteran, both loving and hating war just as he has come to love and hate himself, consumed by feelings of inadequacy you see how the road has almost run its course and he soon will stand at the brink of despair and be lost. I have always wondered what happens to Maglor after he throughs his Silmaril into the sea, I know he wanders around sing about his pains. Personally I think that when Beleriand gets drowned that he is drowned with it and that he goes to Mandos to begin the restoration of his soul and eventually his body, which I think is the Fate of all the House of the Feanor. After all they cannot escape the fate of the Eldar which is to stay bound to the world and in dying they have the choice of eventually returning to life, of course as you point out in your stories and in the LaCE they can refuse the call and become wraiths (which reminds me, in Mercy is it your assertion that Celegorm chooses to become a wraith?), but even that I don't think is necessarily a final decision as the spirit could still choose to go into Mandos if it became weary enough of its meager existence. JRRT always allows continual grace in his stories, by that I mean though people mess up they have opportunities to correct and repay their mistakes even to the point of that redemetive act being carried from one possible point to another (the example of the choice of the Dunedain of the south councerning Arvedui, which was later fufilled in Aragorn but to the loss of much that might have been). Let me say again that I loved this story, just as I have loved all your stories, but I did notice somethings that I disagreed with not on a literary basis but in connection with JRRT intent (not worried about that so much) and academically and philosphically. I'll e-mail you the rest of my thoughts couldn't post them all.