B2MEM 2012 - March 16th

[altariel]

The number called was G51.
My cards and prompts were:
Write what you know: Borrow someone else’s OC
Scientific achievement: Print

Immovable Types

The idea came from stories heard in childhood of the family dream: the great ineluctable wave; the intransigence of Powers faced by Man’s pride. It breaks his heart to think of everything gone: poetry and lays and songs; philosophies and treatises; devices and machines he can barely imagine.

So he chops words up into discrete parts; moulds them; turns them into metal. Everything taken apart, rebuilt, fixed. He pictures constellations of knowledge; galaxies of lore.

Others will fear his creation and the unruliness it will bring. But he means to set words free so they will never be lost again.

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A/N: I do know that Amrothos is named by Tolkien. But he'll always be Isabeau's Amrothos to me.

Comments

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Yay, that's our boy. Combat "the intransigence of Powers" with increased ingenuity! And I'm intrigued by the idea that fixing words by printing is actually liberating them (they can, of course, once printed spread far faster and further and wider...)

Now I'm giggling at the memory of that wonderful last line of Aragorn's from The Machine That Changed the World...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm so far behind on thanking people for comments... but thank you! I'm glad you liked that double meaning of "fixing".

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I've just snuck back into LJ for the first time in a month, so don't talk to me about 'behind'!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Amorothos - so full of hope. So who will teach everyone to read these words he's set free? Has he seen that that must be the next step?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think Faramir's got that bit covered. Or his daughter, more likely.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh - this is most certainly Isabeau's Amrothos - and how interesting that the Rohirrim would, I think, see writing words down as holding them captive, he sees this as setting them free.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

So far behind on replying to comments... Thank you! Yes, I think the Gondorian desire to set everything in stone (or in text) would be baffling to the Rohirrim.

[aliana1.livejournal.com]

What a marvelous (and logical) motivation for the invention of print! I love this line: So he chops words up into discrete parts; moulds them; turns them into metal. Everything taken apart, rebuilt, fixed. He pictures constellations of knowledge; galaxies of lore. Gutenberg would be proud.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm miles behind on thanking people for comments, so sorry! Thank you! Yes, I suspect Amrothos of having sleepless nights thinking of all the knowledge that was lost.