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tolkien100Title : Merely a Glimpse: After the Battle
Author : Himring
Fandom/Source : Silmarillion, History of Middle-earth
Rating : PG13
Characters : Salgant, Maeglin
Disclaimer : Tolkien's characters (no offence intended, no monetary recompense received).
Spoilers/Warnings : Reference to canonical character death.
Summary: Maeglin followed his uncle Turgon into battle to assist Fingon, but that battle was lost and Maeglin's other uncle died there, without Maeglin ever having met him in times of peace.
His uncle’s face turned briefly towards him, in the midst of battle, strong emotions flickering over it. That love, the joy that lit it up were for Turgon, not him, he reminds himself. They didn’t really have a chance to meet.
‘He would not have cared for me, anyway.’ Because I was the death of his sister.
A crude thing to say about a fallen hero. But Maeglin is Eol’s cold son, cannot be breaking down over the death of an uncle he did not even know!
‘Fingon was more likely to care for people than not,’ says Salgant, somberly.
Author : Himring
Fandom/Source : Silmarillion, History of Middle-earth
Rating : PG13
Characters : Salgant, Maeglin
Disclaimer : Tolkien's characters (no offence intended, no monetary recompense received).
Spoilers/Warnings : Reference to canonical character death.
Summary: Maeglin followed his uncle Turgon into battle to assist Fingon, but that battle was lost and Maeglin's other uncle died there, without Maeglin ever having met him in times of peace.
His uncle’s face turned briefly towards him, in the midst of battle, strong emotions flickering over it. That love, the joy that lit it up were for Turgon, not him, he reminds himself. They didn’t really have a chance to meet.
‘He would not have cared for me, anyway.’ Because I was the death of his sister.
A crude thing to say about a fallen hero. But Maeglin is Eol’s cold son, cannot be breaking down over the death of an uncle he did not even know!
‘Fingon was more likely to care for people than not,’ says Salgant, somberly.
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Date: 2018-07-05 09:15 pm (UTC)Accordingly, Salgant has more insight than he is often credited with, although this gets overlooked by many in Gondolin who think of him as something of a clown.
I've previously mentioned Fingon missing Salgant after Turgon and his people left for Gondolin, in one of my stories. The point I was trying to make there was more that jokes can be important, too (especially if you have a Doom hanging over you, perhaps)
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