QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION
QUESTION: hello, how're you doing? c: here with a few questions about your ocs: about lileyn, was she alive during the events of LOTR? did she participate in battle of pelennor fields (i refuse to believe éowyn was the only woman there)? does she know sidhen?
ANSWER:
Lileyn was alive and well during LOTR. She was born in Elthengels, a small town in the Norcrofts, very close to the Argonath. I like to imagine that this smol Rohirric child would climb over the hills and the mountain range of the East Wall and just gaze with dreamy eyes in the distance at the Argonath. This is how she received her second name, “Aegdohtor” (daughter of water, in old English)
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I remember while playing LOTRO, I got to Rohan and I liked Elthengels so much and the scenery around it, that when the idea of Lileyn came in my mind, it was all set. Also, besides Ellen Fremedon in the Underharrow, Elthengles is the only rohirric settlement with a woman as thane (Mildrithd).
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The story arc I had in mind for her is that both in LOTR and LOTRO, Easterling attacks are mentioned as happening in Rhovanion and in Eastern Rohan. Lileyn alongside the remaining women and men who did not die at Helm’s Deep or went with Theoden south, defend Eastern Rohan against these attacks. So no, she did not go to Pelennor, but she fought nonetheless.
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At the same time, Dunland is taken over by civil war. The clans of Dunland are torn apart, half of them follow Saruman’s promises and fight at Helm’s Deep (and that ends with the Rohirrim killing most of them and putting the survivors to rebuild the fortress), while half of them despise Saruman and seek to put order in their own country before anything else. Bron is the chief huntress of the Stag Clan, while her brother Hav would soon take over the duties of Brenin from their father. Bron's story arc revolves around becoming a voice for the Dunlending concerning their hundreds of years dispute over land with Rohan.
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I haven’t sorted it all out yet, but Bron and Lileyn meet and learn to overcome their stigma and prejudices (like “straw-head”, which is what Dunlendings call the Rohirrim) and become great friends.
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As for Sidhen, sadly she never traveled as far south as Rohan, so she never met Lileyn. Sidhen remained behind during the War of the Ring, not going with the Grey Company south. She fought together with the remaining dunedain and the hobbits against Sharkey’s lackeys, side by side with Adamanta Hornblower.