[Fifty years, at most, and then Maitimo was gone as well... For he knows that he isn't with Makalaurë anymore in the time that he came from.
He's really trying to end the conversation on a positive note, though, mostly because he hopes for that to aid his son's help, if only in the slightest.]
[ Sorry dad, but all Maglor's tales end in tears these days ]
25 years. Not long, as we count it. When ... when they were old enough, Maedhros and I, we decided to let them go - better that they went free of us. [ For we loved them, and would not drag them with us, and even then, we began to see how it must end ]
Not really - but like their parents, the boys were peredhil - half-elven. They grew more swiftly than those of full blood, but slower than Men. By the time they left us, they were mature in body, if not perhaps entirely in mind, eager and ready to see the wide world. [ If, perhaps, supremely irritated and more than a little hurt that their parental figures had suggested that they not come back. Ever. ]
[He still knows little enough of the secondborn that such an union as must have happened between their grandparents does not seem terribly unexpected to him.]
You raised them well. [At least if Elrond as he met him in the Unseelie halls is anything to go by.]
[ that gets a very real smile - whatever his guilt for tangling the twins' fate with his, to heart that Feanor approves is something he never thought to hear ]
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Date: 2014-06-16 08:40 am (UTC)Sirion was some 50 years ago now. [ 50 years. So long, and so short. 50 years and now I am alone ]
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Date: 2014-06-16 08:58 am (UTC)He's really trying to end the conversation on a positive note, though, mostly because he hopes for that to aid his son's help, if only in the slightest.]
How long was it that Elrond stayed with you?
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Date: 2014-06-16 09:03 am (UTC)25 years. Not long, as we count it. When ... when they were old enough, Maedhros and I, we decided to let them go - better that they went free of us. [ For we loved them, and would not drag them with us, and even then, we began to see how it must end ]
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Date: 2014-06-16 09:34 am (UTC)Children in Middle Earth grow more swiftly than those in Aman?
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Date: 2014-06-16 09:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-16 10:55 am (UTC)You raised them well. [At least if Elrond as he met him in the Unseelie halls is anything to go by.]
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Date: 2014-06-16 11:45 am (UTC)Thank you atarinya. I am glad you thought so.
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Date: 2014-06-16 12:01 pm (UTC)But we need to end here - I will message you again in a few days.
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Date: 2014-06-16 12:09 pm (UTC)