Thank you, Ithilwen! I've want to take a shot at it since I first saw that painting.

Thank you so much, Dawn! Thanks for reading when you are so busy and especially for taking the time to comment. "I'm usually not a fan of the same scene shown from different PoVs" I think it is one of those techniques that one is allowed once in their writing life. This is my second time, so I am really pushing! Glad it did not make you run away screaming. There was a discussion earlier (months ago) somewhere on someone's LJ about the picture. That was what started me thinking about the scene. Anyway, Maedhros is my Silm favorite originally. I come back to him for grounding.

Aww! Thanks! Me and my quest for a happy ending in The Silmarillion. (And people pick on G.R.R. Martin for killing everyone a reader might learn to like; Tolkien kills them all!)

Thank you! Your comment gave me a much needed boost. I am roasting alive here this weekend in Brooklyn!

I loved Jenny Dolfen's picture and could not resist writing something, even though I think her interpretation of canon is different from mine.