Unfinished Tales - Part Two - II - Aldarion and Erendis

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

EDIT: Since the ball still seems to be in my corner, I'll add the other thoughts that occurred to me since the above: Time.

You make a good point. Time something very important to this story. The years fly by, as you said, but also most of them are spent in waiting. Both Aldarion and Erendis wait for the other to move, and this waiting is prolonged for the better part of their lives.

I can't comment much on this, I'm afraid, since I've read the story quite a while ago and do not have UT with me anymore to refresh my memory. But I'll say this about the ending: between Uinen and Erendis, the former clearly had the upper hand. If I remember correctly, Erendis threw herself into the Sea (right?), so she accepts her utter loss. For me this is the absolute best moment in the whole story, when the proud Erendis, lonely, rejected, and forgotten, admits her defeat - which makes her loss all the more bitter. I suppose Aldarion isn't in a better position, as Ancalime does not continue his work, and all that he had accomplished at the Sea was thrown away, until generations later when Numenorians begun redeveloping their seamanship.