Ah. Yeah, makes hugging a little more awkward.

They're all so good at avoiding each other's hair! It's really hard if they don't have it completely pinned up!

I guess it's all in what you're used to.

The extended childhood probably helps, too.

Yeah, probably.

Drove poor Fëanáro nuts. Although occasionally he would try to win arguments by being chronologically older than me.

Did that ever work?

No.

Didn't expect so.

And when he tried to run away to the Outer Lands he pulled that out and I said 'you can be over a hundred years old or you can have been planning to be gone for four years, pick one'.

He was going to be gone four Years/forty years?

He was planning to stay long enough to grow up.

Poor kid.

He was mad that I summoned him back.

I just bet.

But his father was in a panic and Lórien was in a panic and I didn't honestly think he'd thought it through, so.

Yeah, he makes bad life choices under the wrong kinds of pressure.

Nod.

I'm glad he didn't stay mad at you.

Yeah. Poor kid.

Things have never been easy for him.

Well, if they were I'm not sure that would suit either.

I think he deserves a less fucked-up class of hard.

Lots of satisfying intellectual challenge against a backdrop of good parenting and none or adequate gods.

And no Fate.