Hi! I absolutely loved your thoughts on the beginning of HĂșrin and Morwenâs relationship. You said pre Nirnaeth politics among the humans of Beleriand was a topic you really liked so I was wondering if you had any thoughts on HĂșrin and Morwenâs political lives prior to the Nirnaeth!
The funny thing is, I could SWEAR I had written a long post related to this before, but found literally nothing besides short references to it and whatnot đ€đ€đ€
But not specifically about HĂșrin and Morwen, funnily enough! More about HĂșrinâs father and mother, because they were involved in a barely mentioned event that is nonetheless very fascinating to me personally: the double marriage between two heirs of the house of Hador and two heirs of the house of Haleth :^) me and my wife call it âthe marriage of the centuryâ đ
About Morwen and HĂșrin, I donât think I have too many ideas besides what I mentioned before in that post about their engagement! We know HĂșrin spends a lot of time away from home, in Eithel Sirion I assume, dealing with war things:
but his father [TĂșrin] saw little, for HĂșrin was often long away from home with the host of Fingon that guarded Hithlumâs eastern borders (...) (from the CoH)
My headcanon is that it was the same for Galdor, and domestic affairs related to the land, farming and taxes were mostly handled by Hareth. Since I HC that Morwenâs betrothal to HĂșrin was decided in the same year she got to Dor-lĂČmin, I also HC that she grew up in Harethâs company, and learned from her how to run these domestic policy affairs. I donât think Morwen was very creative and innovative -- and I think Hareth was around, still helping with ruling matters until far into the story⊠(She must have passed not long after Galdor did, if only because itâs strange and depressing to imagine her alive to see the decay of her house during Easterling rule :/)
More importantly, I think the years of Morwen in Dor-LĂłmin and HĂșrin in Brethil, Gondolin and Dor-LĂłmin were all heavily influenced by the preparations for the Union of Maedhros. Iâm sure the farming and crafting being done is war-oriented, and probably organized in accordance to specifications according to broader plans... Similarly I think HĂșrinâs main concern is with the arming and training and organizing of his forces. So nothing too politically exciting or innovative in their generation! Theyâre rather the product of more interesting happenings, and they are planning an even more interesting future for their son TĂșrin, scion of two houses of the Edain.
