Hey so here's a question. I love the interactions between Anairë and Eärwen, but I was wondering do you think Nerdanel was their friend?
hhihi!! thank you for the question! i'm sorry it's taken me SO long to finally get back to this, but i'm slowly making my way through asks and yours is a prompt ive loved since i first saw it, so i had a lot of fun with this 😚
certainly, i do think that nerdanel would have been friends with anaire and earwen! although, at first glance you would not think she's close with them at all, given her gruffness... but i really like the thought of the three wives being close friends bc in a family as problematic as Finwe's, i adore there being solidarity between the ladies who married into it 😂 here is a little relationship chart of my hcs to explain better!
obligatory sketch page WOO
now AFTER the exile and the first kinslaying, i have a whole array of hcs about how their relationships may evolve that didnt make it into my sketches... but to condense: nerdanel is a pillar of strength for anaire who is distraught especially by nolo and irisse leaving her. she, however, dares not to face earwen for the shame and guilt that feanor's (her husband!!!) actions against earwen's own people have brought about. earwen leaves them both (temporarily) to return to aqualonde and mourn, and from there... well i havent thought about it, but tl;dr i dont think it'd end sourly for them three, really!
