At Least Nothings On

“I… I didn’t know,” he whispers. “You have to believe that. I wouldn’t have left if I’d known.”A daughter.Alta must have gotten pregnant just before he left. She hadn’t gone to Formenos with them. (Maglor can still remember her standing at the gate of their house in Tirion, telling him there was no way in hell she’d be following Fëanor into the middle of nowhere, “and you shouldn’t either, Káno. You deserve better than this.”) So by the time the Trees were killed, she must have known.How had she done it? How had she raised a child when everyone else in Tirion was stumbling around in the dark, waiting for the world to end? And how has Maglor missed it?Legolas and Gimli exchange panicked looks. “It will… be okay?” Legolas says haltingly. “Or not. Possibly not. I don’t know. I don’t have any kids.”Gimli hits him with an oar.