I'd love to get inside his head on one of those early voyages and know what he was thinking about. I bet there was a lot going on inside that head. did he see young couples among Gil-galad's people who were courting, and think about the beautiful young woman who had risked his father's displeasure to bring him the oiolarië (or to send it to him on subsequent voyages)? Perhaps watching the stars, which must have seemed different viewed from M-e, he would think of her.
Exactly. The lyrics of the song that struck me were "How can a blind man steer by the stars?" And to me I was thinking of blindness, not literally, but how Aldarion might have been blind to some aspects of his relationship with Erendis. And that's kindof why I picked her when I wrote Celestial Quartet, precisely because their relationship was sortof an anti-fairytale. It is, as you said, one of the most fleshed-out marriages that Tolkien wrote about, which makes it very interesting that it's so dysfunctional. :P
I'm still inspired- I'd kindof like to finish the young Denethor story before starting another Tolkien story, but it probably won't happen. Maybe this Aldarion one can be shortish. Like The Hours.
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Re: addendum to addendum
Date: 2004-07-28 06:49 pm (UTC)But, of course. ((hugs))
I'd love to get inside his head on one of those early voyages and know what he was thinking about. I bet there was a lot going on inside that head. did he see young couples among Gil-galad's people who were courting, and think about the beautiful young woman who had risked his father's displeasure to bring him the oiolarië (or to send it to him on subsequent voyages)? Perhaps watching the stars, which must have seemed different viewed from M-e, he would think of her.
Exactly. The lyrics of the song that struck me were "How can a blind man steer by the stars?" And to me I was thinking of blindness, not literally, but how Aldarion might have been blind to some aspects of his relationship with Erendis. And that's kindof why I picked her when I wrote Celestial Quartet, precisely because their relationship was sortof an anti-fairytale. It is, as you said, one of the most fleshed-out marriages that Tolkien wrote about, which makes it very interesting that it's so dysfunctional. :P
I'm still inspired- I'd kindof like to finish the young Denethor story before starting another Tolkien story, but it probably won't happen. Maybe this Aldarion one can be shortish. Like The Hours.