[ not pictured: lúthien, laughing in relief, because she had started to get concerned about the state of things in poor rand's world if he didn't even have marriage... ]
That was the bride price set by my father. He would not let me marry Beren otherwise, as he was of the race of men, not an elf.
He did not consider the race of men equal to elves, and thus Beren was not worthy of me.
[ she adds, her wry tone perhaps carrying through the text, ]
But to tell you the truth... I am his only child, the daughter of King Elu Thingol and Melian the Maia. I doubt he would have been in favour of any suitor I brought before him, even had it been another elf.
[ it's not the first time she's mentioned her fantastical parentage, even for the world she comes from, but the reminder still comes at a little jolt of surprise. for all her beauty, lúthien acts very much like a normal person, clearly feels no such superiority over the humans around her. ]
That's still a hell of a bride price.
[ beren had to have loved her very much, to agree to it. and when he goes on, it's something he'd usually think instead of saying aloud, but with the way the earpieces work, well.. ]
I've met a Dark Lord before, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone
[ meanwhile, lúthien has no idea of the mistake, or the horror that rand experiences after it... and simply goes on to say, entirely seriously, ]
It is not an easy thing, to stand before a divine being, whose mind has twisted into dark tangles. I hope you made it away from that meeting in one piece, my young friend.
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I've heard of marriage, Lúthien. What I haven't heard of is needing to steal from crowns to get married.
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[ not pictured: lúthien, laughing in relief, because she had started to get concerned about the state of things in poor rand's world if he didn't even have marriage... ]
That was the bride price set by my father. He would not let me marry Beren otherwise, as he was of the race of men, not an elf.
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Your father really didn't like Beren, did he?
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[ she adds, her wry tone perhaps carrying through the text, ]
But to tell you the truth... I am his only child, the daughter of King Elu Thingol and Melian the Maia. I doubt he would have been in favour of any suitor I brought before him, even had it been another elf.
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That's still a hell of a bride price.
[ beren had to have loved her very much, to agree to it. and when he goes on, it's something he'd usually think instead of saying aloud, but with the way the earpieces work, well.. ]
I've met a Dark Lord before, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone
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[ that. ]
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It is not an easy thing, to stand before a divine being, whose mind has twisted into dark tangles. I hope you made it away from that meeting in one piece, my young friend.
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[ it's only on reflection that it occurs to him that this is perhaps not the reassuring answer he intended it to be ].
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[ :( :( :( ]
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[ he'd expected to die, and didn't. that's more than anyone could ever ask for. it's more than he'd even wanted. ]
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[ and so had beren. ]
And yet, here I am. And here you are. Forgive me if I presume... but is not your regret tied to this Dark Lord of yours?