Turin and Maeglin?

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Urwen

You don't understand. None of you does understand.....

So explain it. From how you've been talking, it comes across like you read the Silm and thought 'I bet Tolkien was totally lying about Maeglin and he was actually lovely'. But I don't imagine that's what happened.

So where does this come from? What is it about Maeglin as written that first drew you to him, and leads you to conjure up defenses of him?

hS