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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Original Female Character(s), Ereinion Gil-galad, Fingon's Wife (Tolkien), Orodreth's Wife (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Textual Ghosts, the problem of gil-galad, the many names and lineage debates for Gil-galad, maternal lineage, allusions to various canon names, giving more unnamed characters some names, including ones not expected in a piece about Gil-galad, Family Trees Series: Part 6 of Constellation of the North Summary:
Meril, the Lady of Dor-lómin, has very few living relatives to write to. Especially when the topic is pregnancy and the all-important naming of a future prince. Fortunately her cousin had given birth to a daughter. Finduilas's mother gives advice.
Of the interconnected royalty of the Sindarin wives of Noldor princes and why Ereinion is the 'Scion of Kings'.