What a lovely story! Numenor is not usually my key interest, but my attention was held, my thoughts provoked (a dangerous thing!), and certain of your lines are beautiful. My favorite:
We were raised among those who slew our own kin, raised with care and teaching. Where should our loyalties lie? Kinslayers, rebels, accursed, all that they were indeed, but it was not all, it was not all! If I have led the people well, then where do men suppose I learned it?”
I like to consider how Elrond and Elros might have regarded their upbringing; did they speak of it? Think often of Maglor and Maedhros? I like to think that they did, but of course--as this story points out--it is a matter much more complicated than that.
In answer to your question about the subsequent stories in this series, it seems to me that they would both eligible for this group. I'm fairly liberal in my definition of "Silmfic" because, really, I think Tolkien is all one fandom with a lot of overlap and there's even stories I might count as Silmfic that would fall in the Third Age or be tied in with LotR. What I wished to discourage was stories based entirely on LotR, as there are plenty of groups and archives that accept this, and the Silmfic is usually drowned by the sheer number of such stories at these places.
But I would consider anything to do with Numenor or Valinor--even if not part of The Silmarillion proper--to fall into that gray area of "related works." I hope you post them; I'd love to read more!
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We were raised among those who slew our own kin, raised with care and teaching. Where should our loyalties lie? Kinslayers, rebels, accursed, all that they were indeed, but it was not all, it was not all! If I have led the people well, then where do men suppose I learned it?”
I like to consider how Elrond and Elros might have regarded their upbringing; did they speak of it? Think often of Maglor and Maedhros? I like to think that they did, but of course--as this story points out--it is a matter much more complicated than that.
In answer to your question about the subsequent stories in this series, it seems to me that they would both eligible for this group. I'm fairly liberal in my definition of "Silmfic" because, really, I think Tolkien is all one fandom with a lot of overlap and there's even stories I might count as Silmfic that would fall in the Third Age or be tied in with LotR. What I wished to discourage was stories based entirely on LotR, as there are plenty of groups and archives that accept this, and the Silmfic is usually drowned by the sheer number of such stories at these places.
But I would consider anything to do with Numenor or Valinor--even if not part of The Silmarillion proper--to fall into that gray area of "related works." I hope you post them; I'd love to read more!