In my opinion, Findis is the 'nice' (quiet) sister who follows Indis' lead and goes for a peacemaker role.
Irimë is...not. She's fiery. She has *opinions*. And she's fiercely loyal to her brother Fingolfin. She, like Galadriel, is a natural opponent of Fëanor. (We gave her an artistic interest in glass-blowing.)
So, the interesting part comes when their father Finwë dies. Irimë is hell-bent on vengeance. Her mourning for her father turns very much to 'Morgoth must pay!' So, in a surprise move, she supports Fëanor, not Fingolfin, in the torchlit-square in Tirion. Obviously, she's not part of the Oath, and she doesn't abandon Fingolfin. But she is very pro-Fëanor in that conversation, in the sense of being all about going back to Middle Earth right the heck now - and this is a marked change from how she has been vocal against him in the past. Her shift would be a good way of showing how persuasive Fëanor's rhetoric has become, but her own grief is the primary reason for the change of heart. We can set that up in the tail end of S2Ep13 by showing her totally wrecked when she sees Finwë's body.
That way, her death in the Kinslaying makes sense as the end of her story, and (in a way) will prefigure Fëanor's demise. She disregards the rightness (or in this case, wrongness) of the Noldor position, because they really need those boats....so she recklessly rushes in. Seeing her fall, Fingolfin then rushes in without stopping to find out how the fighting started.
I was imagining Irimë shot down by Teleri arrows (the Teleri aren't unarmed, but the Noldor have swords and they....don't.) I was not imagining Earwen participating in the Kinslaying at all (just mourning the bodies afterwards), but her (unnamed) brothers could be guilty. There is a scene of them talking with Galadriel earlier in Season 2, so they aren't exactly redshirts (though obviously very minor background characters). I don't think we have to stick to 'only women fight women' or anything like that.
Irimë is...not. She's fiery. She has *opinions*. And she's fiercely loyal to her brother Fingolfin. She, like Galadriel, is a natural opponent of Fëanor. (We gave her an artistic interest in glass-blowing.)
So, the interesting part comes when their father Finwë dies. Irimë is hell-bent on vengeance. Her mourning for her father turns very much to 'Morgoth must pay!' So, in a surprise move, she supports Fëanor, not Fingolfin, in the torchlit-square in Tirion. Obviously, she's not part of the Oath, and she doesn't abandon Fingolfin. But she is very pro-Fëanor in that conversation, in the sense of being all about going back to Middle Earth right the heck now - and this is a marked change from how she has been vocal against him in the past. Her shift would be a good way of showing how persuasive Fëanor's rhetoric has become, but her own grief is the primary reason for the change of heart. We can set that up in the tail end of S2Ep13 by showing her totally wrecked when she sees Finwë's body.
That way, her death in the Kinslaying makes sense as the end of her story, and (in a way) will prefigure Fëanor's demise. She disregards the rightness (or in this case, wrongness) of the Noldor position, because they really need those boats....so she recklessly rushes in. Seeing her fall, Fingolfin then rushes in without stopping to find out how the fighting started.
I was imagining Irimë shot down by Teleri arrows (the Teleri aren't unarmed, but the Noldor have swords and they....don't.) I was not imagining Earwen participating in the Kinslaying at all (just mourning the bodies afterwards), but her (unnamed) brothers could be guilty. There is a scene of them talking with Galadriel earlier in Season 2, so they aren't exactly redshirts (though obviously very minor background characters). I don't think we have to stick to 'only women fight women' or anything like that.