Thank you! Of course, in a way the core of the plot is simply an over-elaborate joke (Fingon himself says so!). But I wasn't writing it just for laughs, but trying to use it as a means of characterization and I'm glad that seems to have worked for you.

Thank you!

When I read the Silmarillion the first time, I read Fingon and Maedhros as being simply friends, too, actually. This development, somehow, happened later...

I have written some stories that are rather more explicit than this one. But yes, I think there is sadness and humour in almost all of them, sometimes more of the sadness, sometimes more of the humour.

I think Erestor noticed something, probably, but can't at all pin down what it is that he has noticed. Maybe he will figure it out--or maybe he will forget he ever noticed anything.