Le thesis, she is chugging along. I hope to have the fourth chapter (a.k.a. Chapter Two) finished over the weekend. It's about three-quarters done and is mostly a resarch paper anyway, which just means that I need another couple of hours to spew.
I forget -- does Maitimo ever get to be 8,000 years old?
I would imagine that, even for Elves, parents are parents forever. Even twenty years of childhood leaves an impression on humans, and Elves have fifty years. Plus, their parents never grow old and have second childhoods, so that role reversal never comes to a middle-aged Elf. No matter how full of himself Fëanor gets, Finwë will always be able to look him in the eye and say, "I changed your diapers, bucko." (Of course, Finwë's problem is that he'd never say that, no matter how much Fëanor needed to hear it.)
It's probably a good thing that Maitimo is an Elf and male. He's going through the kind of childhood that leads to quite a bit of teen pregnancy in the real world. He's out looking for someone who values him as himself, even though he doesn't know it. I can see how, if he had been a girl, the temptation to marry the first strapping young buck who came along just to produce a baby would have been a powerful one. His little brothers are one thing, but even Macalaurë can't really be the kind of friend he needs. (Not that having an oops would have solved AU!Girl!Maitimo's problems, either.)
I wonder what Fëanor thinks of Maitimo's manwhore tendencies. It must, first of all, be somewhat foreign to him, since he has apparently only ever loved Nerdanel. Maitimo's activites don't really seem to bother Fëanor, but I can't imagine that he's real comfortable with it, either. As the mother of a friend of a friend once said, "I'm fine with knowing that my daughter is sleeping with her boyfriend. But one just does not want to hear one's child having an orgasm."
Nerdanel, if she were less distracted by the other children, might realize that something is up with Maitimo, for she was said to be wise and good at reading people. But as it stands, she's running on the same false assumptions that schools make about children: if their grades are good, it's a safe bet that nothing's really wrong with them. Maitimo is The Responsible One whose role is to help take care of people, to the point where even his mother has forgotten that he needs taking care of, too.
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Date: 2006-02-11 08:50 pm (UTC)I forget -- does Maitimo ever get to be 8,000 years old?
I would imagine that, even for Elves, parents are parents forever. Even twenty years of childhood leaves an impression on humans, and Elves have fifty years. Plus, their parents never grow old and have second childhoods, so that role reversal never comes to a middle-aged Elf. No matter how full of himself Fëanor gets, Finwë will always be able to look him in the eye and say, "I changed your diapers, bucko." (Of course, Finwë's problem is that he'd never say that, no matter how much Fëanor needed to hear it.)
It's probably a good thing that Maitimo is an Elf and male. He's going through the kind of childhood that leads to quite a bit of teen pregnancy in the real world. He's out looking for someone who values him as himself, even though he doesn't know it. I can see how, if he had been a girl, the temptation to marry the first strapping young buck who came along just to produce a baby would have been a powerful one. His little brothers are one thing, but even Macalaurë can't really be the kind of friend he needs. (Not that having an oops would have solved AU!Girl!Maitimo's problems, either.)
I wonder what Fëanor thinks of Maitimo's manwhore tendencies. It must, first of all, be somewhat foreign to him, since he has apparently only ever loved Nerdanel. Maitimo's activites don't really seem to bother Fëanor, but I can't imagine that he's real comfortable with it, either. As the mother of a friend of a friend once said, "I'm fine with knowing that my daughter is sleeping with her boyfriend. But one just does not want to hear one's child having an orgasm."
Nerdanel, if she were less distracted by the other children, might realize that something is up with Maitimo, for she was said to be wise and good at reading people. But as it stands, she's running on the same false assumptions that schools make about children: if their grades are good, it's a safe bet that nothing's really wrong with them. Maitimo is The Responsible One whose role is to help take care of people, to the point where even his mother has forgotten that he needs taking care of, too.