drabble: new character
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filegThis is for the challenge attolkien_weekly to write in a voice I have not written in before. 100 words is not really enough to say I have written in a new voice, but I have not written this character before (though Chris
elladans_witch and I have had plans for a while now to do so together. Real Soon Now, or as we say - Pagan Standard Time) two of you will understand that this is, in its way, for North
This one owes some of its essence to movie!verse, but holds up as canon. I feel like I squashed this one into the suitcase with a crowbar...
It all belongs to The Professor, and it is his fault for making me think these things...
Fathers
a sunny afternoon in Valinor...
“Commiserating?” I asked, coming in just as what was probably a third bottle of wine was being opened.
Elu Thingol nodded. “Only we understand hearing our daughters declare their love was worth dying for...”
“Gift of Man, indeed,” Elrond grumbled. “Why did you never try to dissuade Idril from the choice?”
“It’s fortunate for you I did not…” I began; he had the grace to blush.
“She was not a child, but a woman grown.” I smiled then, and added, “Thankfully, because I did not try to keep her, in the end I did not have to lose her.”
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Date: 2006-01-20 01:05 pm (UTC)And I love the image of such 'veterans' getting into yet another bottle of wine... bet by that time Elu Thingol's locked away the good stuff!
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:04 am (UTC)I guess they can always just put something new away for 100 years...
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:13 am (UTC)When Elrond gets all broody over Arwen (only 3000 years old, poor thing) her mother has been gone back to Valinor for almost 1500 years.
Thingol has the least good reason of all, since he is married to a Maia (I wonder if she had parents back in Valinor moaning and groaning about her marrying a mere immortal) and of course he makes the most fuss. Luthien is no shrinkin violet, and if Tolkien had been born a little later I think she would have shown Dad that she was a woman with her own life, not his "jewel in the crown." She rather does, anyway, but there would be a lot more I told you so....
Idril's mother has also gone back to Valinor (or so I assume - and this is the story I am trying to write with Chris) She was killed crossing the ice, and so she has gone back home on the express.
But everything about their family leads me to believe she would have been suppportive - after all they didn't try to make Idril stay home when they crossed the ice into Beleriand
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