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Tolkien Online ^ | January 18, 2000 | Mark-Edmond

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A Tolkien Virgin: Of Meglin
by Mark-Edmond

The Journey Continues

I know love makes little sense sometimes, but how Aredhel ended up with Eol is a complete mystery to me. She left majestic Gonodlin to visit her friends, the sons of Feanor, but ended up in Nan Elmoth. There, she marries Eol who forbids her to go out beneath the sun or visit the sons of Feanor who she had desired to see in the first place. She exchanges one bondage for another in the search for freedom--curious to say the least. Their 'love-story' (if you can call it that) is so off-kilter that it's no great surprise that their relationship leads to total disaster for them both. Worse, their son, Maeglin, is a freak who falls in love with his first-cousin and becomes the "seed of darkness" in Gondolin. And yet., early on we know there's something evil about his intentions since the thing that most interested him about Gondolin to begin with was that Turgon had no heir. Tolkien, never shy about foreshadowing the darkness/evil that is coming, introduces Maeglin, leaving us to wonder just what part exactly will he play in the fall of Gondolin (if that's possible) or the rest of Beleriand.

Author: Mark-Edmond
Published on: January 18, 2000

The next Tolkien Virgin article continues with The Silmarillion: Of the coming of Men into the West

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The Daily Tolkien articles by various authors	The Tolkien Virgin articles by Mark-Edmond
ARTICLES 01-10
ARTICLES 11-20
ARTICLES 21-30	ARTICLES 01-10
ARTICLES 31-40	11) Of the Sindar
41) Love in the Trees	12) Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor
42) The Philosophical Etymology Of Hobbit	13) Of Men
43) Exploring Tolkien's Fourth Age	14) Of the Return of the Noldor
44) Origin and History of the Ents	15) Of Beleriand and its Realms
45) It's all in the family: The Elweans and Ingweans	16) Of the Noldor in Beleriand
46) It's all in the family: The Finweans	17) Of Meglin
47) Beorning questions...
48) All About Orcs - Twelve Orkish Statements
49) Love, Middle-earth Style

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