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[cirth]

A completely new attempt at speedwriting! Slightly faster this time--maybe 700 words/hour--and it shows. The characterizations are particularly... exactly like all my other characterizations. All my characters tend to be obsessive and a little clueless. Anyway. I guess this might be the first scene of a Maedhros + Fingon friendship fic. Even though

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[lenine2]

A new fashion? It could not be. Maedhros was always au courant with the latest fashions, and he had not heard of this. But of course he could not well ask and reveal his ignorance.

Oh, dammit, you keep making me laugh.

Say... does your stained glass effort have anything to do with your characters' hobbies? What exactly is your ultimate goal? Or shouldn't I ask?

[tehta]

My goal? In life or in writing?

I am not sure I have one, either way. I am making a stained glass panel because it seems like fun, and I like trees. And I am just futzing around with the writing...

[lenine2]

Gosh, I didn't mean to make it sound like a heavy question -- ! I just thought it was funny that you projected your rock climbing hobby on your characters, and I thought maybe they were projecting their hobby onto you.

[tehta]

Oh, no worries.

The rock climbing seems very, very appropriate for Fingon, because that 'the Valiant' thing implies that he was a bit reckless, back in Valinor, and a bit ironic for Maedhros, because of the whole chained-to-a-wall business, and of course good for them as a pair of friends, because it would have taught them to trust each other with their lives.

I have had Glorfindel do it, too, a bit. It might be mentioned in the Eagle fic, and I definitely have unpolished snippets of him clambering around the mountains of Gondolin.

And I am sure that stained glass is a popular Elvish hobby. But of all my Elves, Egalmoth seems most like the type who'd enjoy it...

[maggiehoneybite]

What's with the culinary metaphors? ;)

For something written quickly, this is quite funny. It's clear that that sort of thing comes naturally to you.

[tehta]

I guess I was hungry.

A bit too naturally, IMO. It's, like, the only thing I seem to be capable of writing...

[sirielle]

Maedhros sounds very mature here, like he was much older than Fingon. Was it your intention?
Still I wonder if they wer in similar age or that different, as in Ivanneth's story. Can't choose, like both ideas ;)

I like Fingon's carelessness here, very true to him. Poor Anaire, being a mother to such kid ;)

[tehta]

Well, what does 'much older' mean for Elves? He's supposed to be about twice Fingon's age here, but the actual difference is less than a century, and so in time it will no longer matter very much. (Although I do see Maedhros as a more responsible, focused person overall.)

And poor Anaire will also be mother to Aredhel. No wonder Turgon, the middle child, is so self-contained...

[sirielle]

Fingon seems to be a kid, like 12 or 14 and Maedhros - like 17-19 or round. In human age, someone smart in maths can count the elven amount (years of trees or the sun?) ;) Hmmm, Maedhros could be even 22, he is really responsible here.
But I am not the best in telling the age. And the more I think of it the more I am not sure...

Turgon. Is this canonic info of him? Calm and responsible? Everyone portraits him this way, but I don't know why. I lack in canon knowledge, it will take some time to read HoME.
I agree about Aredhel - that must have been Fingon in a skirt, even worse for the parents ;)

[tehta]

Well, that's how I write Turgon and Aredhel, anyway. But in canon Turgon stands out among his cousins as the one who just took care of his people and never did anything crazy.

I am not sure that Elven ages can be converted directly to human ones. Various bits of their personalities seem to grow at different relative rates. I think I meant Fingon to be a little older than fourteen, just pretty stupid about danger, but it's hard to be precise when writing quickly.