You manage to evoke such deep and complex emotion with such economy and grace - like a sketch that leaps to life on the page. The question sinks right into my gut as a reader: how do you tell your family about the worst thing you ever did and suffered? Where do you even begin? And the acceptance which his family offers him - as well as the matter-of-factness with which they know something's wrong - was both very moving and rang very true.
Yesssss give me Telerin religious framing centered around Ulmo and his servants rather than Manwe and his! Oh man, now I am really curious about what sort of understanding of the Valar developed in Gondolin, since if I understand correctly there were Sindar among Turgon's people, and we get a glimpse of Glorfindel's Vanyarin take on things- and of course the exiled Noldor have a particularly fraught relationship with the gods that were their patrons...
Thank you SO much!!! That really - thank you! That means a lot to me! (Salgant thinks he's coping very well. His family thinks he's coping very well considering.)
You know the warning about references to human sacrifice? I'm not SAYING those references are about Gondolin, but I'm not saying they're NOT about Gondolin. Anyway, you have Glorfindel's Vanya ideas, Salgant's North Teler thoughts, Rog and the Hammer's stated devotion to Aule -- yeah, it gets a bit odd in its own right, much less when those come together. And of course Turgon and Ulmo's patronage! That fountain is SO symbolically AND magically significant to the city, like, wow.
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