You're right about the 'Atlas of Middle-earth', but I wondered if there was any actual Tolkien evidence.
Fonstad's work, iirc, is based off of Tolkien's notes and drawings, some of them unpublished, available to the public at That University Whose Name I Cannot Remember. So it *is* Tolkien's work, just not Tolkien's work that we can see in a book.
what what so much worse about the second Kinslaying than the first?
Umm...Turgon probably participated in the first? ;)
Perhaps (going out on a limb here), the first kinslaying was easier to dismiss as the result of confusion, with some Elves thinking that the Teleri had attacked first and that they were defending themselves. The second kinslaying, though, was premeditated. There was no doubt that the Feanorians were going to Doriath with the intent of taking the Silmaril and, if they met with resistance, killing any who stood in their path.
Celegorm and Curufin even swore to kill Thingol if he would not relinquish the Silmaril. (And I got that from your character research! Whee!)
Legally, premeditated murder is considered worse than that which happens more or less as an accident. It's easier to argue the latter for the first kinslaying than the second. Actually, it's flat-out impossible for the second, short of AU contortionism!
The Feanorians had been behaving more or less (except for the Nargothrond fiasco), so maybe Turgon thought that there was hope yet for them, hope that was destroyed when they again resorted to kinslaying, especially since they all (not just the Cs) participated in it.
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Date: 2005-10-18 03:05 pm (UTC)Fonstad's work, iirc, is based off of Tolkien's notes and drawings, some of them unpublished, available to the public at That University Whose Name I Cannot Remember. So it *is* Tolkien's work, just not Tolkien's work that we can see in a book.
what what so much worse about the second Kinslaying than the first?
Umm...Turgon probably participated in the first? ;)
Perhaps (going out on a limb here), the first kinslaying was easier to dismiss as the result of confusion, with some Elves thinking that the Teleri had attacked first and that they were defending themselves. The second kinslaying, though, was premeditated. There was no doubt that the Feanorians were going to Doriath with the intent of taking the Silmaril and, if they met with resistance, killing any who stood in their path.
Celegorm and Curufin even swore to kill Thingol if he would not relinquish the Silmaril. (And I got that from your character research! Whee!)
Legally, premeditated murder is considered worse than that which happens more or less as an accident. It's easier to argue the latter for the first kinslaying than the second. Actually, it's flat-out impossible for the second, short of AU contortionism!
The Feanorians had been behaving more or less (except for the Nargothrond fiasco), so maybe Turgon thought that there was hope yet for them, hope that was destroyed when they again resorted to kinslaying, especially since they all (not just the Cs) participated in it.
Just my theory :)