Very textured and vivid!

And a very interesting parallelism drawn between Miriel and Gilmith.

Great backstory and expansion of the history--so convincing and satisfying. The prose is awesome too. Really loved this:

Evening gilds a path into the west out of the shallow bay of empty Edhellond where no more ships come and the buildings are overtaken by the slow growth of olive trees and the swift flowering of honeysuckle.

Stunning! I'm jealous!