Drabbling

[altariel]

A birthday drabble for Dwimordene, who asked for: "Something Kin-Strifish, which can include the arguments and tensions preceding the actual war. Post-war stuff would also be welcomed." I stretched "post-war" about as far as I could.



Flux

Ithilien did not forget the slaughter, the great hunger, the fires, the blood poured out upon its stones. All of it done in the name of purity, to force upon men a false settlement.

Yet all that is certain is that time will wear the world and change will come. Time will play out its patterns in the ripples on the river, and the sunlight on the leaves. Colours will commingle like the threads on the loom of Vairë herself: black for Númenor, fair for Rohan. One day all of Gondor will greet Ithilien's first Prince and his northern son.

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"The slaughter and destruction done in the city at [Castamir's] bidding far exceeded the needs of war. This was remembered in Minas Anor and in Ithilien..."

Comments

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous. Just lovely.

[kathyh]

That was lovely. So much meaning and imagery packed into 100 words. Brava!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glad it worked :-)

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I love the controlled lyricism of your writing. That was beautiful.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Perfect. I love the threads you've teased out of the canon to weave this.

And people try to pass JRRT off as racist. ::headsmack::

[aervir.livejournal.com]

Lovely -- chilling and hopeful at the same time.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I hugely appreciate that. I've felt dried up for some time now, and it felt incredibly good to have words flowing in the direction I wanted them to go again.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Very glad it worked all right. I've been dry for a while.

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

That sounds good - well done. But you're not dried up, you're just 'gathering material' (ahem) :)