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Double Trouble
Faethurin son of Dimaethor and Feveren son of Gladlin, friends born but a single day apart in the autumn of the year III 2966, shortly ere the Middle Days. Here seen at 18 years of age (III 2984).
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Faethurin: (Doriathrin) fae ("soul") + thurin ("secret/hidden")
Feveren: (Nandorin) fe ("soul") + meren ("festive/gay/joyous")
Faethurin and Feveren at 12 years of age (III 2978)
Faethurin and Feveren at 6 years of age (III 2972)
"For at the end of the third year mortal children began to outstrip the Elves, hastening on to a full stature while the Elves lingered in the first spring of childhood. Children of Men might reach their full height while Eldar of the same age were still in body like to mortals of no more than seven years. Not until the fiftieth year did the Eldar attain the stature and shape in which their lives would afterwards endure, and for some a hundred years would pass before they were full-grown."
- Morgoth's Ring, 'The Laws and Customs Among the Eldar'
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"[In Quenya] Love, which Men might call “friendship” (but for the greater strength and warmth and permanency with which it was felt by the Quendi) was represented by √mel. This was primarily a motion or inclination of the fëa, and therefore could occur between persons of the same sex or different sexes. It included no sexual or procreative desire, though naturally in Incarnates the difference of sex altered the emotion, since “sex” is held by the Eldar to belong also to the fëa and not solely to the hröa, and is therefore not wholly included in procreation. Such persons were often called melotorni ‘love-brothers’ and meletheldi ‘love-sisters’."
- The Nature of Middle-Earth, footnote to "Time and Aging, Time-scales"
