a quick quesiton for the Silm fans

[martasfic]

I'm trying to work out Indis's relation to Ingwe, the king of the Vanyar. The snippet of Miriel's and Finwe's story from Morgoth's Ring (I'm using it as my canon just because it has a lot more interesting details on the remarriage issue than the published Silm version) says Indis is Ingwe's sister; but most family trees I'm seeing online actually have her as Ingwe's niece by an unnamed sister of Ingwe. Which I'm happy to go with if that's the accepted version; I just don't know nearly enough about the Silm-canon to know if I've stumbled upon an early draft where the detail was later changed or if this is the internet just being wrong.

Is anyone more familiar with these pre-First Age texts able to weigh in? Is their any kind of consensus over what the correct family relationship here, or is this just the Silm-canon being its lovely self-contradictory self?

Comments

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Wish I could help you, but I have no idea on this one.

- Erulisse (one L)

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

It's fine. I think it's one of those minor points readers won't give a second thought to. I must admit I'm curious now.

Isn't the Silm just grand? I probably need to reread it properly if I'm going to write much in it, becuase a lot of the canon details I was very much out of my depths on. Still, done is done and it was fun to write again.