#77 Half-Way
Maedhros and his younger brother Maglor were sitting at the dinner table their heads in their hands trying to keep themselves from screaming in frustration. They had been sitting there now going on three hours, and it looked like they would be there another three hours!
Maglor finally lifted his head and looked across the table with a pleading look on his face. "Please, Elrond, Elros. Just eat your vegetables and then you can get dessert. You are already half-way finished."
Elrond looked at his brother, then his plate, and back up to his foster father. "No, I don't like them. They smell funny, and they are all stringy. I want dessert now."
Shaking his head in agreement, Elros pushed his plate away. "I want dessert too. You didn't eat your veggies, so, why do we?"
Maglor looked at his brother who had lifted his head up as well for help. "Elrond, the vegetables are supposed to smell like that, and they are stringy because it is spinach. That is what it looks like. Elros, we have already had our days of eating vegetables, and when you are our age, then you can decide on whether or not to eat them. And you will get dessert after you finish - End of discussion."
Both twins scrunched up their noses and started to scream once again. Finally, no longer able to hold in their frustrations the sons of Fëanor began to scream along with them.