You are so welcome! A marvelous story like that, especially set in an era unfamiliar to many people, needs to be recc'ed as often as possible!!

Enjoy my stories- my Tolkien has been rather a minute amount of my output in recent years, but there are some I'm especially proud of, and I'm glad to be heading back over into that area. I've written primarily Wraeththu in the past year, which was what brought Elfscribe and me together, though it turned out she'd read some of my Tolkien in the past.

You are welcome for the commentary! I don't do it all that often, but when I do, it's because I've been moved by the story. Yours did that for me on a multitude of levels, and that's good storytelling and wordcraft.