She does appear rather young and inexperienced, in many ways--and I mean that not as a disparagement but merely as an observation. She must come to appreciate herself ere she seek to draw another to her, I fear.
Author Reply: She's a classic case of arrested development. This is a result of trauma in her childhood, which Celebrian will help her to deal with. One of the reasons she thinks the way she does is because she's still very much a child, though she is older than Elrond. I wanted to play with the idea of love from a childlike perspective, which is why I did that. If she was more mature and sophisticated, the story would have turned out very differently. Thanks for the review. :D |
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