Here’s part three of The Women Who Shaped Middle Earth (here’s where you can read parts one and two.) A five-part series, I’m looking at all the women who had a significant impact on Tolkien’s world. There’ll be some overlap (for example, Elwing appears in another segment as well), so if you feel I left something out, that might be why, but send me an ask anyway, as I’ll be editing all of this before offering the complete version for download as a .pdf.

This guide, as well as one other guide (to be released later this month) is part of my contribution to Legendarium Ladies April. If you don’t already know about the event, definitely check it out! And if you have any lady-centric questions or issues you’d like to see me make a post for, now’s the time to let me know!

And if you think this is interesting, check out my already completed Atanamili: The Women of the First Age series, which covers all the (mortal) women of the First Age.

My Opinion on Finwe’s Second Marriage

There are a couple different directions I could go with this question, so I’m going to very briefly address several of them, lol. What is my opinion on Finwe wanting to remarry? I think his reasoning was pretty fair. His situation after Miriel’s death was pretty depressing – not only was his wife dead, who’d…