[Anguirel]

Oh, Saucie, Saucie, you haven't been reading between the right lines!

Yes, remember the attempt to oust Morgoth. Quite. When Saucie attempted to remove the main source of controversy and tragedy. Now he's after a smaller, but more interesting, fish.

Curufin (and Celegorm, and even Maedhros) cause strife within the side of good. Moral ambiguity. Elf against Elf. Kinslaying. So much more intriguing that heroes massacring Orcs, because it's true. It's life. It's history.

Man, or Elf, must perforce prey upon man, or Elf, like monsters of the deep, to paraphrase the Duke of Albany.

Reject Saucie's vision. It's really very twee. A happy land with hobbits breeding like rabbits and Elves living in peace and harmony. And poor old me, cheesed off and thrust into the Void...

As for the implication that I'm fiddling the times, it is quite honestly balderdash. I was occupied last night and so posted the challenge early. Days always end at seven-ish in the evening or morning; as I'd set the challenge early it's to be the evening...