#Let finarfin have his petty revenges. He's still a finwian!

[shrikeseams]

Post-canon reimbodiment is an endless font of potential social awkwardness, and tonight I am contemplating: a functional role swap between Finrod and Thingol.

Because you still have one extremely well-connected, socially and politically established leader, and the newcomer relative with a fragmented social/political group (you cannot convince me that the iathrim maintained much unity in thingol's absence) who has to ask for help establishing new territory for their group. And also the begging party had recently done the more powerful party some kind of injury, even if they can claim some degree of distance/plausible deniability.

Not that I think the Valar would deny the iathrim the right to some kind of territory of their own. But Thingol would have an uphill climb to re-establish himself, and I suspect would find himself much more estranged from Olwe (mutual abandonment) and Ingwe (passage of time and arguably demonstrated difference of values) than would be comfortable. He has more options in Aman than the Noldor did in Beleriand, but I cannot see him taking any loss of power/prestige with any degree of grace (since arguably that's also what happened at the start of the first age and he was pissy about it then, too).

Note: I realized partway through that Finarfin is much more solidly in Thingol's role (I doubt he'd be pleased with the guy whose damn fool quest got his son killed), but that doesn't have the social agony of Thingol finding himself needing the good will of someone who was once a supplicant to him. So. Less juicy.

#Tolkien #San shoots the breeze #I do think finarfin should get the chance to look thingol dead in the eye and speak only quenya to him #Let finarfin have his petty revenges. He's still a finwian! #Edited to correct typos