Gilraen deserved better
This tag belongs to the Additional Tags Category.
Parent tags (more general):
This tag has not been marked common and can't be filtered on (yet).
Works which have used it as a tag:
-
The Duty of a Noble Man by HornyButNotOnMain (FiammaGalathon) for CaughtInFicHell
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Oct 2025
Tags
Summary
Arathorn perishes two years earlier. Estel is barely three months old, when Gilraen, hand forced by circumstance, flees to Imladris.
But the stress of the road makes her lose her ability to breastfeed, and with no wet nurses in Rivendell, it seems like the future of the line of Isildur, and of her baby son, is quite bleak.
Insert one Glorfindel of the Golden Flower, a rather interesting biological difference between Quendi and Edain, and the burning parenting urges of elves who didn't have a child to fuss over for a few centuries.
Little Estel will be fine. And Gilraen...Well. Gilraen will be fine too. More than, even.