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I would hope that Arwen at least had the opportunity to have come to know her father's own foster-father. I, too, have my own idea as to what became of Maglor, and have had it written for years--but need to bring the rest of the epic up to that point. Some stories I've written the end for long before I get through the middle chapters. I wish I wrote as fluently now as I used to do.

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Good heavens--you wrote this comment a year ago, and I'm only now responding to it? Thank you so--I enjoyed imagining this experience for Maglor. And it is still a thing of wonder to know my writing can so move others. Thank you again, with all my heart.

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One day I may write the stories you suggest, Teresa, although there is so much I'm still working on elsewhere. I have written the incidents leading up to Maglor returning to Aman, but it's the final chapters to another work in progress, and I am finding that writing the chapters leading toward the ending chapters that have been long written is taking an inordinate amount of time to do! I regret I didn't respond to your comments when they were made. It was a rather chaotic time when you made them. But I do appreciate them! Thank you so!

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Until he can come home again to Aman, this is where his family has come to, at least. And I do think he needed to meet Arwen, at the very least. In looking at Maglor seeing the last light of the Silmaril leaving Middle Earth with his remaining fosterling, I do think he'd have felt confused as his rational mind wrestled with the instincts associated with that blasted oath he took. That he might end up being found by a member of the nearest Dunedain village just seemed possible, so how might he have dealt with them in the future? And this might well prove to be one of his last chances to develop a relationship with Elrond's children, after all. Hopefully he would accept Arwen's assays at a relationship, no matter how tenuous. Thanks so very much, Raksha!

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Thank you so, Mysterious Jedi. I am certain that Elrond would leave his children with good thoughts about the one who stood as his own foster father when his parents disappeared into the West. And I'm certain Maglor needed to know that he was remembered well in some quarters, at least.

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We will see what I can come up with by then, Tari. I'll be planning something for then. I have more written for Maglor's story, but those chapters are in another tale that isn't up yet. Thank you so!

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I suspect that this will help to pave the way for that day! Thank you so very much, Lynda!

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I don't know precisely why Maglor has been haunting my imagination this past month, but he has. And it took me just about a month to get this written, I found. Some stories are downright stubborn about not necessarily wishing to be finished, I've found!

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The story of Maglor is well known throughout Middle Earth, after all, and I suspect that considering how relatively few Elves appear to have been given to wandering about the place on their own a few individuals at least would be able to figure out who he was. I may expand on this one day, although I couldn't guess when! Thanks so!

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I found I had to revisit Maglor in the early Fourth Age once more! And thank you!

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I've explored Maglor's possible view of the leaving of the ship on which sailed Elrond, Galadriel, Frodo, and Gandalf, and always wondered how he must have felt when he realized that Frodo bore the light of the Silmaril when he left Middle Earth. Tolkien himself was interested in the very themes you named, and so I wanted to look at some of the pressures that might have been brought to bear on Maglor to inspire him to seek out reconciliation himself. There is a story that I've written that expands upon this one in a certain way, although it remains to post the relevant chapters involving Maglor. Much of what is in this story is expanded upon in that one. One day it WILL be finished--I so vow!

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I have some expansion of details in this story already written, although I've not gotten far enough in what I've written of THAT story posted to get the chapters dealing with Maglor receiving a shirt crafted by Arwen or Frodo's shirt studs posted. I am certain that many Elves with too long of memories still detested Maglor for his involvement with the kinslayings in Alquallonde and during the First Age of the Sun; but I doubt that by this time Cirdan would still wish to see Maglor condemned for what he did over two Ages of the Sun past. After all, he was considered to be among the Wise himself! Perhaps I will find myself expanding upon this particular story and learning whether Maglor would agree to come to the Citadel in Annuminas to be formally presented before the King of Arnor and Gondor. But I cannot imagine Arwen being anything other than gracious and caring as she greeted him. Thanks so for your comments--they do mean so very much!

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Oh, I'm so glad you liked it. And perhaps I will one day expand upon it to see whether he'd agree to meet with Aragorn and possibly the twins and Celeborn, and under what circumstances. I have written how he ended up with a shirt made by Arwen and Frodo's shirt studs, but that is still not posted, I'm afraid. It WILL be posted one day, when the time is right!

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It appears many wish this one expanded upon. Perhaps in the future? Am so glad that people do want more of some stories!

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I so agree, UTfrog! Thanks so!

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I have written the description of how he ended up with a shirt made by Arwen and Frodo's shirt studs, and what that led to in the end for him, but that is not yet ready to be posted. It will be posted one day. Maglor came to have reason to know just how compassionate Frodo could be in that portion of the story that is yet to be posted--in a different longer tale, unfortunately. Thanks so very much, Shirebound!