Friends of Nimrodel: Tapestry of Dreams - Discussion

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

But that doesn't answer my question. There has to be some reason why she is the way she is. All her history says is that it happened. How?

I had an original background that I dropped as too over the top, but I can present it if you like:

Raid on settlement where parents resided led to her mother being sent off to safer quarters, but she became separated from the group and wound up on the way to the Dwimorberg. Search party found her later, dead on the path, with the newborn Sæthryd barely alive next to her. This knowledge opened her to the receipt of evil influence from the mountain and gave her an interest in the Paths of the Dead, which combined to cause her condition. A stepmother then replaces mother in the history given.

Alternately, she could have been haunted by real visions out of the mountain from childhood for unknown reasons and those slowly drove her to her current state. That's plausible since she was under the Dwimorberg when the dead still were there.

Or there could be a family history of mental illness. If we accept the conceit that Middle-earth is a past time period for our world, diseases that exist today exist in the past.

I don't know. If it's not canon enough, I'll scrap the idea. I just thought she was interesting.