[Good it makes sense to someone, his brothers kept bitching about his abdication until the day they died. So it's nice that someone seems to get it.]
Perhaps it would have been better if father and uncle Nolofinwe grew up so seperated. Not that I blame my uncle for giving as good as he got... but perhaps some distance would have made my father think more fondly of his brothers. [If only because he could have thought of them in more abstract terms.]
I am sorry to hear that. Treachery is a bitter chalice to drink from, especially when it comes from one so close. [The treachery of Ulfang and the Easterlings had stung badly enough, he can't imagine how it would feel if it had come from someone much closer to his heart.]
Duty is sacrifice, I think. We just don't always see what it is that's going to be demanded of us before the time comes. [He nods in approval.] Aye. That is what matters. My brothers did not understand it, and the fault for that is at least partialy my own. I should perhaps not have shielded them as much as I did from the duties and responsibilities of the court... [But he'd not wanted them to have to give away as much of themselves as he himself had done at times.] Still, I have no regrets about my abdication. It was the correct choice.
My advice would be to take some time to simply observe. If it is as you say even the most cunning of evils will show itself in time, it is simply not in it's nature to stay silent and dormant for too long. But if it is not, and there are other forces at play, observing and gathering information might well be the best course of action. [Patience, dear human, is the key. He knows it does not come easy to your kind but you should try it. For it often saves one from making too much of an ass of oneself when an assumption is proven wrong.]
He's going to get such a headache when he learns about that...
Perhaps it would have been better if father and uncle Nolofinwe grew up so seperated. Not that I blame my uncle for giving as good as he got... but perhaps some distance would have made my father think more fondly of his brothers. [If only because he could have thought of them in more abstract terms.]
I am sorry to hear that. Treachery is a bitter chalice to drink from, especially when it comes from one so close. [The treachery of Ulfang and the Easterlings had stung badly enough, he can't imagine how it would feel if it had come from someone much closer to his heart.]
Duty is sacrifice, I think. We just don't always see what it is that's going to be demanded of us before the time comes. [He nods in approval.] Aye. That is what matters. My brothers did not understand it, and the fault for that is at least partialy my own. I should perhaps not have shielded them as much as I did from the duties and responsibilities of the court... [But he'd not wanted them to have to give away as much of themselves as he himself had done at times.] Still, I have no regrets about my abdication. It was the correct choice.
My advice would be to take some time to simply observe. If it is as you say even the most cunning of evils will show itself in time, it is simply not in it's nature to stay silent and dormant for too long. But if it is not, and there are other forces at play, observing and gathering information might well be the best course of action. [Patience, dear human, is the key. He knows it does not come easy to your kind but you should try it. For it often saves one from making too much of an ass of oneself when an assumption is proven wrong.]