Can I just apologise to everyone for not continuing posting on this thread. A wierd thing happened, in that i got this overwhelming idea for a story about Orophin, Haldir's brother, which I felt I just had to get down. It kind of swept me away, & just came pouring out once I started. I would have submitted it here in the fiction section, but it does contain some scenes of graphic (though not gratuitous) violence, which it would be impossible to tone down, a) because that would tend to glamourise it, where in the story it is stark & ugly, & b) because it serves as a counterpoint to some very abstruse musings on Orophin's part about the nature of Elvish existence & the ending of the Elvish world. Suffice it to say he ends up (or does he?) communing with Illuvatar at Cuivienen. Having read the submission rules for fiction, I don't think it would be considered publishable on the Downs, sadly. And I stand by my Artistic integrity & will not be censored!
Anyway, that's my excuse for not posting.
Oh, & I didn't say Bilbo & Frodo were incapable of forming relationships, I said they found it difficult.
