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Glivaidhel

Glívaedhel "Medlineth"
| Name | Glivaidhel |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Occupation | Child |
| Age | Child |
| Race | Elf |
|---|---|
| Residence | Imladris, in her father's house |
| Kinship |
| Outward Appearance | Elf-children are so rare, but she is clearly one of them. To a man, she would seem only ten years of age. Only four foot in stature and with a child's softness to her face and limbs, and a child's awkward proportions. She has her father's nose, and his grey eyes. Her ashen-honey hair, the source of her name and evidence of her part-Sindar heritage, hangs free past her shoulders. She is quick to laugh and as quick to pout and cry.
She delights in company and learning, and is known to seek out knowledgeable elves and pelt them with questions and spend time observing their work, trying to learn all she can. However, she is as quickly distracted as she is to learn, and so has some knowledge of a great many things, but great knowledge in very few. |
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Background
The Eldar grew in bodily form slower than Men, but in mind more swiftly. They learned to speak before they were one year old; and in the same time they learned to walk and to dance, for their wills came soon to the mastery of their bodies. Nonetheless, there was less difference between the two Kindreds, Elves and Men, in early youth; and a man who watched elf-children at play might well have believed that they were the children of Men, of some fair and happy people. For in their early days elf-children delighted still in the world about them, and the fire of their spirit had not consumed them, and the burden of memory was still light upon them.
This same watcher might indeed have wondered at the small limbs and stature of these children, judging their age by their skill in words and grace in motion. 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.
- Ælfwine’s preamble to “Of the Laws and Customs Among the Eldar Pertaining to Marriage and Other Matters Related Thereto: Together with the Statute of Finwë and Míriel and the Debate of the Valar at its Making.”History of Middle-earth, vol 12, Morgoth’s Ring, “Laws and Customs Among the Eldar”

Names
(Ataressë) Glívaedhel — Honey softened one, from glî (honey) + mae (soft) + dh (adjectival affix) + el (feminine ending). Formerly Glífiniel — daughter of honey-haired one, from glî + fin (hair) + iel (feminine patronymic ending).
(Amilesse)
(Epessë) Medlineth — Bear-like-girl, from medlin (honey-eater, bear-like) + neth (youth, young girl). Given by her father, used as a nickname among her kin.

Of her
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| Friends | To be listed |
|---|---|
| Relatives | Father: Mistirion |
| Rivals/Enemies | None |
| Loves | Her family, honeycombs, sweet breads |
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| Hates | Boredom |
| Motivation | |
| Quotes | "They were mine. I found them." |
