On Sindarin/Quenya sexual orientation vocabulary and Elven conceptions of queerness

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Hi! *waves* Newbie coming bearing a discussion topic.

I'm working on a femslash fic in mid-Second Age Imladris and was pondering possible ways to describe sexual orientation (or some analogous concept) in Sindarin or Quenya. I'd welcome people's thoughts on the matter.

( in which I go through various possibilities - somewhat lengthy )

Of course, all this begs the wider question of what Elven conception of sexuality and alternate/minority sexualities would have been, what the connotation of same-gender relationships would've been and whether they'd have been legal or illegal, what Elven queer subcultures would have looked like, etc. - and how this would have differed among Noldor vs Sindar vs Silvan vs Vanyar vs etc. in different Ages, to boot. I admit at this point that I have very little knowledge of how these things have looked in other cultures and varying points in history apart from "not like here and now", and this would probably be helpful when considering possibilities. >> Possibly one can use the description in Laws and Customs of the Eldar as a jumping-off point for what the normative sexuality would have looked like (so heterosexual marriage, with children, relatively early in life, sexual desires waning after a while) and then contemplate how deviations from that would have been viewed. But really, I have no idea so any input is welcome!