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This was a really interesting explanation for Vanimelde's reputation as a vapid and pleasure-obsessed ruler. I liked your interpretation that she wanted to be loved and thus left the often unpopular duty of enforcing decisions in public to her husband. I suppose her plan to be universally loved didn't quite work out, since the histories later consider her inconsequential... but then again, not being praised isn't the same thing as not being loved.

Meanwhile, I love re-interpretations of the Númenorean queens, and there are not many of them, so thank you for writing a new one!

 I don't really think Vanimelde cared about the far future after her death, I think she would have been happy with being in people's living memories, and then after they die, well who cares anymore.

Thank you! I am writing more for the three other ones, as well as some of the Black Numenoreans, and I put up my Erendis one (The Sundering Sea) already.