Oh, this was precious therapy. My boys- minus Feanor- together again. This makes me so happy.

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- Erelil Morningstar

This is beautiful and amazing. The plot is a plausible happy ending for the Fëanorians and your writing is amazing. Keep it up!
Blessings,
Sophia

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I love Maglor coming home too! It's unfair not to! (Although I have no problem leaving the C's in Mandos until the end of Arda!)

YOU GAVE HIM A SON! Amazing! I like to think he went home too :)

AWWW, That's Elrond, right? 3

Nice story, indeed. :3

That was wonderful. I really liked your depiction of Maglor, and you managed to capture emotions both sweet and sad. I thought your depiction of his reaction was very realistic. Great writing. Thanks for sharing. It's going on my favorites.

There was something that hinted they would not be reembodied until everyone they had hurt had forgiven them. And AU filly fics with Namo finally having enough of Feanor's trouble making in Mados and reemboding him as a child or an infant.

I really enjoyed this Lia. You show a strong talent for writing. I continue to follow your work in anticipation!

Blessings

That was a beautiful way to portray a seldom-seen happy ending for the Fëanorians! You included moving depictions of so many characters: Maedhros, Maglor, Fëanor, Elrond... The thought of all turning out well for them brought a smile to my face. :)

-Crackers

This was beautiful!

I like to picture happy endings as well, I am just a sucker for them. XD

This story brought tears to my eyes. It was just so...beautiful. I don't know how else I can put it, except that I am sorry I did not read it earlier.

"The warmth of the sun is on his head and back and the wind is blowing through his hair, whipping it into his face – things he never thought he would experience again." - What a sentence, it explores the modes, the moods, the pain of Mandos. It makes me think of the silent halls where wisdom is learned through slow years of painful memories until the soul is washed clean. But still how it aches for the beauty that it saw amidst all the madness.

Maedhros's regret as he looks upon his younger brother, how he blames himself for all the wrong that happened. He was the oldest; he should have known better, Maglor listened to him. He loved him. But still he feels that it is all his fault.

Maglor flees when Maedhros approaches him. He is afraid, tormented, miserable. Maybe it is another apparition after the thousands he has seen? Maybe he was plagued by images from the past for all of his wanderings? Or perhaps he knew that it really was Maedhros and was afraid to face him. There are so many questions that that one scene raises.

And then Maglor clings to him and cries, and I cannot help but cry with him. After so many years, can holding onto each other until the tide comes in be enough? So many years and so much pain and time lie between them. So many regrets that they share, but it seems that the tide will come in to wash away their former sins, and Maedhros will carry him back to Valinor, just as he swept him along on their hopeless quest.

And finally, Elrond and that heartbreaking, heartwarming, heartwrenching word.

This made me cry, but in a good way. Very poignant and beautifully written. I would like to think Maglor and Maedrhos made it home too :)

I really liked this short story. I *love* Maglor (out of all the Fëanorionnath, Maglor is my favorite), so it’s great to see a story with him in respectable light. And though the story was short, you managed to bring out just how tormented he was very well. I mean, when reading about him in canon you can just feel the torment he’s in when he bypasses the chance to repent and prior to that when his oath is eating at him. You can only imagine what it must have been like afterwards when it was all over. And, though very short, I think you managed to capture that unfathomable depth of anguish fairly well. I also liked how it was written that he was sort of losing his mind at this point, that there was nothing left but sorrow and despair, which was emphasized when it was said that it was heard with every word he sang (when I read that, I was reminded of the Noldolantë). To put it simply, I really felt for him while reading this. My heart just reached out to him and that’s not easy for me to do with a character, so good job on that. :) And I appreciated the subtle touches from the Silm. you incorporated. They weren’t obnoxious or misplaced at all.

Just a quick question; towards the end, was that Elrond who whispered “Father” when he saw Maglor?

I loved that remembrance with Fëanor and their brothers. It was kind of like a palate cleanser in a twisted sort of way. Throughout most of the Silm and history of ME, Fëanor is seen to be a madman, or something similar. It was nice to read a reminder that Fëanor and his sons were once a normal, happy family. And I was certainly smiling at the part when Fëanor launched a tickle attack on Maedhros; that was so sweet.

In reference to canon, Tolkien didn’t say that Maglor remained in Middle-Earth. But he also didn’t say that he returned to Aman either. In HoME vol. 12 Tolkien simply describes him as being “lost” and, in vol. 10, him walking the shores of this World for all of his days (or something along that wording). Those are the only references I can remember right now. But Tolkien does tend to be elusive on the fates of many people, so the end of Maglor is really no-man’s-land. It’s really your own interpretation of chronological and canonical events. So, based off what I’ve read, I can’t say you’re wrong. :) As for the other sons of Fëanor being released from the ‘Halls of Waiting’…the simplest way to put it is that they wouldn’t be released for a *very* long time. Should an Elf desire to be re-born, they are sooner released in accordance to their deeds and based upon their own desire and the length of time willed by Námo the Judge that they should dwell in his Halls (whether it’d be as healing, rest, or punishment), according to ‘Of Death and the Severance (blah blah blah)’ HoME vol. 10. there are many factors involved, but I do know that the sons of Fëanor would not be released for a very, very long time, just as Fëanor himself will not be released until the end of Arda for the deeds he committed, as you said. And involving the world of LotR, there were only a few things that had to be corrected, but it’s not really a big deal since they’re small and most authors tend to overlook them. Sorry; I don’t mean to throw all this stuff at you. It just said at the end of the story that you were uncertain about it, so I’d thought I’d answer. *shrugs*

Anyway, I really liked this, to say the least. It was pure beauty and I really appreciated it. Thank you for taking the time to focus one what it must be like for these characters. It was truly brought out wonderfully. If you ever come up with a way to expand the story in some form, I’ll highly encourage that because you really did do a great job bringing out Maglor’s psychological torment in such a short story. Nicely done!