Gee, Finwe! I just got through mentioning Maeglin and Fëanor in the same breath on another thread! What a coincidence! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Indeed, they seemed to be ripe for a push from Morgoth...more's the pity. I think if one looks at the dead end of Maeglin's position and the power he does have and use, that it is necessary to conclude that he must make some sort of move in order to further himself, or else stay in the position he holds, in which he is clearly not happy. The tragedy is that it was driven by evil, the poison of Morgoth. I would have liked to see Maeglin perhaps break off and form a separate kingdom, for he seemed constitutionally unsuited to be anything less than the one with final say. I wonder if his 'love' for Idril was all love or if it was this sort of covetousness...it is interesting to turn over these thoughts, anyway!
Cheers,
Lyta
[ October 10, 2003: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ]
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“…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”
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