Hello, I was thinking again about our Dúnhere & Duinhir conversation and I was have been able to work out a line of connection between them (at least according to the rules of my headcanon)!
Dúnhere -> Rówhere (Dúnhere's cousin) -> Ivriniel (had a brief fling with Rówhere following the end of the War of the Ring) -> Forlong (he and Ivriniel were short term fuck buddies and long term friends) -> Duinhir (was best friends with Forlong for his entire adult life)
This means absolutely nothing given that Dúnhere is dead by the time they could possibly get a chance to meet and have a fun name mix-up but there it is!
I absolutely LOVE this!!!! ♥️♥️♥️ Ivriniel and her sexual liberation as the linchpin to everything is especially wonderful!!!!
If we’re following your continuing HC, then it does seem possible that during her post-war romance with Gamling, she comes to Rohan to visit and mentions this guy “Duinhir” who is best friends with an old flame of hers. But Gamling doesn’t know who that is in Ivriniel’s world, and so he hears it as “Dúnhere,” and tells his canonical friend Erkenbrand that his new Gondorian royal girlfriend was maybe somehow improbably sleeping with one of Erkenbrand’s nephew Dúnhere’s friends? And then Erkenbrand spreads that gossip ALL OVER Harrowdale, where the message gets distorted and by the time it reaches Lithcynd (crossing over to my HC!), she hears it as “Dúnhere’s Gondorian side piece is in Rohan” and she goes charging off to have a major confrontation with Ivriniel, who is BAFFLED by why this tiny, strange woman in pants who swears like a sailor is absolutely furious with her for claiming to have slept with her husband???
