With a side-serving of Aredhel perhaps not taking it entirely seriously as a permanent arrangement, even after a child was born -- I mean, she's Finwe's grandchild, and her grandfather made multiple marriages work for him... It's not like Eol is going to follow her back to Valinor, anyway.
Ooh, that's an interesting twist! It makes sense to me, too.
I thought the Girdle of Melian kept undesirable people out, not its inhabitants in?
It says in the Silm he fled when the girdle was in place, but in "Maeglin" in WoJ, it says (in a rejected passage) that the girdle couldn't be passed without leave of the king or queen. So it seems as if it was a boundary control measure.
I could write paragraphs on this AU. Gondolin would still fall, though.
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Date: 2014-07-28 07:13 pm (UTC)Ooh, that's an interesting twist! It makes sense to me, too.
I thought the Girdle of Melian kept undesirable people out, not its inhabitants in?
It says in the Silm he fled when the girdle was in place, but in "Maeglin" in WoJ, it says (in a rejected passage) that the girdle couldn't be passed without leave of the king or queen. So it seems as if it was a boundary control measure.
I could write paragraphs on this AU. Gondolin would still fall, though.
I'd like to know more!