miscellaneous fun facts about mengil:
his names are a combination of something that sounds like my name (yulatiƫ lighted path/ lit. spark path) and an approximation of the meaning of my name (fangamilya, downy-bearded/ lit. soft beard); with mengil being a sindarized version of yulatiƫ. I went with yulatiƫ over other possibilities as it matched with a horrible helcaraxƫ baby having a somewhat hopeful name. the translation meaning a path that has suddenly been illuminated by a small light. mengil as a sindarization just needed to sound like a name while vaguely resembling the original in meaning. fangamilya is uncomplicated.
the reason he sees every misfortune possible is a: its very funny and b: he was made somewhat as a point to highlight how much it would suck to be a normal nargothrond dwelling elf. like its just one thing after another. their [nargothrond refugees] main mistake was fleeing to doriath right before doriath imploded but there were several mistakes made i fear.
he lives in the elf caves in nargothrond but should have been a tree dwelling elf instead. he hates living underground hes so depressed. he wants to look at sunlight through leaves and sleep on a bed of clover. if he has to paint another pillar to resemble a tree in yet another winding windowless hallway he is going to lose his fucking mind.
most of his duties are to do with scribework and painting but he has also been known to make jewelry.
his best friend is by contrast an upbeat and lively elf who sings and dances and often joins him to paint when there are exceptionally large stretches of cave walls.
Behold, menelwen, my best friend's elfsona:
(q.p.)nariƫl/(q.m.)herimƫnel/(s.)menelwen, her names are instead her name meaning and then something related to her name nariƫl june daughter, herimƫnel lady of heaven / lit. heaven lady, menelwen sindarization of herimƫnel
where mengil sits in a cave and transcribes texts and songs all day, she is the one singing them la la la. elf of many talents, she skips between singing and dancing and painting and writing down her many many songs.
she likes living in the caves. she hasnt seen the sun in a decade and prefers it that way.
she was born a mere five years before crossing the helcaraxƫ and thus writes far too many songs about the beauty of valinor and the light of the stars before the blinding sun (not her favorite), even though she does not remember these things at all.
she was also almost trampled to death by glaurung, almost killed in the sacking of doriath, suffered greatly in the third kinslaying, and then ultimately was washed away by the sea and drowned with beleriand. she didnt suffer quite as much comically bad luck as mengil but she is still a nargothrond elf after all.
she skipped right back out of mandos singing la la la all the way, and will occasionally stand on a nearby hill peering at the treeline by the gates to see when mengil will crawl his way out. it should be soon.
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