Thank you! This was really difficult to put into words, despite the fact that I knew exactly how I wanted Thranduil to be, because I wanted him to love Legolas but be so caught up in his own trauma that he couldn't see what he was doing. The reunion is going to be difficult as well, but that is next up. I have part of it in the back of my mind already, developing away - the tricky bit is avoiding melodrama because I feel like that would undermine not only the characterisation I've got so far, but also the seriousness of what happened.

(Parts of Thranduil's behaviour are taken from my own, glorious mother who has boxes of our baby clothes and little baggies of baby teeth tucked away.)