The Legend of Ecthelion: Part One

In The Silmarillion, he is mentioned only four times. This is the latest edition, using the original names. Elvish names and place names (as well as those in other languages created by Tolkien) are retained in their original form in the main text. If you aren't comfortable with Chinese and English mixed together, please go here: [Genre] The Silmarillion fanfiction. [Disclaimer] Everything belongs to Professor J.R.R. Tolkien. The mistakes in this story are mine alone. [Partly original characters (based on material in the original work, but with no names or deeds recorded)] Ninqueil, Fainamire. [Original characters] Penlos, Maikalore. [Thanks] Many thanks to evagreen, shiningfree, Gilnor, luin_eiffel, caterpillar, ilxwing, Narindo, and guardian for previewing the story and sharing feedback! [Revision notes] March 2015: Issue 41 of Vinyar Tengwar, the journal published by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, explicitly states in an article called From The Shibboleth of Feanor that Nerdanel had brown hair and a ruddy complexion, not copper-red hair ("A marginal note against that discussion provides the detail that Nerdanel 'herself had brown hair and a ruddy complexion'"). I have therefore revised every description of her hair color in this story. [Note] I know very well which premise in this story is the most controversial. I don't intend to defend it. There's not much to defend, aside from saying that "the original work never said it was impossible." It started out as a spur-of-the-moment explanation more than ten years ago. It seemed inexplicable that a character like Ecthelion had left so little trace in later history. Of course, I can now think of much less far-fetched explanations, and as I've revised this story over the years, I've considered changing the premise more than once. But the protagonist's personality and experiences are too deeply bound up with it. Rejecting it would mean throwing out the character's established path. So I thought, let it be. After all, by now this story is about far more than just the protagonist. Let this unusual premise serve as a thread tying together a surprising, yet perfectly plausible, series of events, and as a way to observe the many characters and happenings. If the story can spark readers' interest in The Silmarillion, and even in Tolkien's world of Arda, then I've achieved my aim. And perhaps, just perhaps, the entanglements caused by that premise have some value after all. Theme: