#which is very clichéd but a) extremely true to my own experience and b) allows for a transition from smth EPIC and DOOMED

[anghraine]

I was thinking about Aranor and Aranor/Míriel some more, and:

I know other people are either indifferent or actively put-off by it, but I find it really entertaining that Aranor, who is nearly 90 years old, has been pining for decades after an immortal peredhel who is thousands of years her senior (and tragically heterosexual) ... only for her feelings to fade after Arwen goes over the sea and Aranor becomes closer and closer to her closest advisor and friend, Míriel—who is some 50 years her junior and her late rival’s daughter.

Míriel is silently pining after Aranor (her queen!), and meanwhile Aranor is oblivious and just ... WHY. WHY AM I LIKE THIS.

(I do realize that this is part of the reason almost nobody shares my ship: that is, the combo of age difference, Faramir being Denethor’s son with everything that entails, and breaking up a popular canon ship in Aragorn/Arwen. But I just find the prospect of Aranor going from years of devotion to Arwen to falling for Míriel of all people really funny.)

#my default answer to a/a is just having arwen go to valinor with celebrían #so they just never meet at all #but i mentioned her in one of the aranor stories so she had to be around and i just went 'well. maybe she's straight' #which is very clichéd but a) extremely true to my own experience and b) allows for a transition from smth EPIC and DOOMED #to quietly falling for her advisor/friend #which i think is sweet as well as personally amusing #also even for my usual faramir/aragorn feelings this is a pining-heavy verse #but everyone ends happily! so it's okay #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #fic talk #aranor #fic talk: aranor #aranor daughter of arathorn #míriel daughter of fingon #otp: love was kindled #still deciding if we actually get the 'love was kindled' moment in this verse—i want things to wind out differently #than with fíriel #but it doesn't seem probable that míriel would be near battle ... she's probably evacuated actually #so they'd first meet well after the healing #hmmm