Tag: miriel

onehandedly:

I cannot help but headcanon Mìriel as being a very gifted mathematician, one of the first, if not the first, to have developed the field of topology. This is due to the fact that she is said to have been the one who “devised the art of needles”.

This quote lead me to imagine her as someone very apt at thinking in a geometrically oriented way, or, at the very least, someone more than capableness only to visualise complex patterns, but to predict how they would “develop” in a given space and utilise them to create more complex super-patterns.

I see her as a quite ancient elf, someone that in her early youth in Cuivìenen used to weave rope (it was a dangerous time to anger her, unless you liked your rope to unweave suddenly) precisely because of her “topological eye”.
To her last days, until she had enough energy and lucidity, Mìriel used to have pieces of yarn in her pockets, since knotting and twisting them helped her concentrate while thinking and, sometimes, instead of writing down ideas she created complex knot to reminding herself of something.
So much that she had a shelf lined with little, multi-coloured, very complex and quite beautiful knot, in her rooms.

Maybe before leaving for Lorien she wove them into a “necklace” of sort for her son.