🚨 Plot bunny alert 🐇
I'm digging into deep Rohan lore today and I hitched on the story of the family of Folcwine King.
Rohan had recovered its strenght after decades of war. The king had twin sons, Folcred and Fastred; an unnamed daughter (of course), and a younger son, Fengel.
Gondor called for aid as the Haradrim were attacking in great numbers, and the twins convinced their father to let them ride there in his stead.
They got killed there, and buried in Ithilien. The Steward of Gondor, Túrin II, sent a great treasure of gold to Folcwine as compensation for their death.
And then the daughter was overlooked (of course), so greedy, moody young Fengel became the heir, and "he was not remembered with praise".
Two things catch my attention here: how do you receive gold in return for the death of two sons, two brothers, two heirs to the crown? And how does it feel like to be overlooked because of your gender, and your brother ends up being actively despised by everyone who knows him or works with him AND his family and heir, and THEN history fails to even mention you?
Literally, the appendix doesn't even say "Folcwine had a daughter". You have to understand her existence from the sentence "[Fengel] was the third son and fourth child of Folcwine." One couldn't erase her more if they TRIED!
I've got to think of all that! 🤔




















