[Maedhros. It takes him a moment to piece together who that is - partly because he didn't expect to hear of anyone but Makalaurë and Tyelkormo, partly because the name doesn't ring a bell at all, partly because... going but what he knows of the two sons whom he met during his first waking in the Drabwurld, he can piece apart that the name is Sindarin. Or supposed to be. Because while he may be no master of this language, he cannot see sense in it, and that requires a few seconds of his brain before he moves on and starts to wonder which of their sons it might be.
In the end, while there are only five options, Nerdanel has ruled out four of them, and that means Maitimo. ...Though he does wonder why his wife uses the other two sons' Quenyan names and not their eldest's. Which lets him move on to worry about the way in which she mentioned their third, and he hugs her firmly for only a split moment before pulling away and looking at her, though he still doesn't let go, his hands still on her arms.] What about Tyelkormo? [He also wants to know more of Maedhros; when he arrived, what he is doing - what Makalaurë is doing, and more importantly, how he is doing - at the least, he is still around, which is more than he dared to hope for when he realized just how long he had been gone. But they have to start somewhere.]
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In the end, while there are only five options, Nerdanel has ruled out four of them, and that means Maitimo. ...Though he does wonder why his wife uses the other two sons' Quenyan names and not their eldest's. Which lets him move on to worry about the way in which she mentioned their third, and he hugs her firmly for only a split moment before pulling away and looking at her, though he still doesn't let go, his hands still on her arms.] What about Tyelkormo? [He also wants to know more of Maedhros; when he arrived, what he is doing - what Makalaurë is doing, and more importantly, how he is doing - at the least, he is still around, which is more than he dared to hope for when he realized just how long he had been gone. But they have to start somewhere.]