That is also why I think, with his train of thoughts (wanting to know how she looks under the sheets, how to undress her and such), he won't be afraid of bonding anymore :)

I think he could find something to like about it. ;)

I patterned Macalaure a lot after myself, actually. I also insisted that I would never want to "tie" myself to another person through marriage. I thought I'd always be alone. Then I fell in love, of course. ;)

I find it so hard to read that Vingarië dreads the same fate as Miriel.

I wonder if it wasn't on the minds of all mothers after Miriel. It had happened, been made possible...surely, Miriel wouldn't have been able to fathom such a thing, prior to conceiving Feanor.

Especially, I think, it must have been foremost in the thoughts of the wives of the Feanorions.

Yet again, I simply love Vingarië's brothers. I sincerly hope you have plans for them as well.

I do. I can never let a character lie! Everyone from geeky ol' Vorondil to the healer in Formenos has a fate in this story. I haven't entirely settled on the fates of T&T, but the idea of half-Noldo, half-Teler lads whose sister is married to the son of the guy who started the kinslaying...that bunny's too big to pass up! ;)

This is by no means not intended to sic another plotbunny on you by the way.

*giggles* Suuuure.... ;^D

Actually, the two of them do fascinate me because they seem to have had obvious, strong love...yet now they live apart, a bit like Nerdanel and Feanor. So I wonder what happened...or is it just the normal course of things? And I wonder how their separation will influence Macalaure's thoughts on his parents' later estrangement.

Thanks, Rhapsy, now you've made me mull it over and there is a bunny hopping into the room....

*hides*