The Silmarillion ch.5: Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie

***Earniel*** · 10-05-2018, 07:35 AM

I don't know, I didn't get that feeling.

Tolkien used the concept of 'sister-son' often enough that women do not seem to be somebody else's family once they've married. At least not to the Eldar.

And considering in the case of FÃ*riel, the female descent was important enough to argue kingship on.

I like to think that Tolkien may have expanded the female children of FinwÃ«, if he had had more time to complete it. Or maybe he just never considered it odd, seen as he himself had three sons and but one daughter.

10-05-2018, 07:35 AM	#1
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I don't know, I didn't get that feeling. Tolkien used the concept of 'sister-son' often enough that women do not seem to be somebody else's family once they've married. At least not to the Eldar. And considering in the case of FÃ*riel, the female descent was important enough to argue kingship on. I like to think that Tolkien may have expanded the female children of FinwÃ«, if he had had more time to complete it. Or maybe he just never considered it odd, seen as he himself had three sons and but one daughter.