#i just cant imagine someone who's lived close to Morgoth to be happy when thingol whose biggest worry is us precious daughter running off

[deadqueernoldor]

I am rotating Thingol in my sleep deprived mind again and his relation to the other Sindar and Moriquendi in Beleriand.

Evidently he had power over them and a certain amount of their respect and love for them to heed his forbidding of Quenya.

But still I cant help but wonder what they really thought of him further down the line, e.g. in the 3rd Age onwards, when the majority didnt live in an active warzone anymore.

You have a king, wise and strong, who has a wife with Power to protect her husband's people behind a girdle.

But you're left outside of it. Your family has lied at Mithrim for centuries, or in Ossiriand, or down towards the Falas. The latter two may not have that pressing trouble with the Enemy, but those at Mithrim and in the north would.

I doubt Thingol sent messengers to every elven settlement to tell them they are welcome inside his protected forests.

Some may not know the option is there. So they live in danger, unprotected, but the moment that king snaps his fingers you're supposed to listen.

Did the northern Sindar, and the Avari, and Laiquendi, and whoever was technically allowed inside Doriath but never went, happy with Thingol's orders?

Sure, they complied. But did they do so without grumbled and distaste?

I have so many questions

#someone who has HoME tell me if there's a canon answer #i just cant imagine someone who's lived close to Morgoth to be happy when thingol whose biggest worry is us precious daughter running off #orders you to do something when he has done fuckall for you in a few centuries #they must have known the sindar had been recovering from their own being attacked but ngl that wouldnt soothe my anger #half baked and underproofed thoughs #tolkien