Elrond to Maglor, by Himring

[hhimring]

Author: Himring
Title: Elrond to Maglor
Characters: Elrond, Maglor
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: poetry
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: PG
Warnings: reference to canonical death and violence
Word Count: 76
Summary: Elrond, looking back.
Author notes: A rather irregular zejel for the May challenge. I took my inspiration from "The Glass", by Edwin Morgan, which is, however, in some ways quite a different poem.


What grew between us little might
be thought, after the first sight
we had of you, black, the fire bright

behind your back, the bitter taste
of smoke, fear and tears, the haste
as you bore us away out of the waste
you had made. You lost that fight,

not those buried under grim grass.
But out of that darkening, as in a glass,
I still carry, distilled, as the years pass—
unforeseen spoils—a light.

A/N: To find Morgan's poem at the linked site, click on the tab "Excerpt".

Comments

[lferion]

Very nice! I like what you did with it.

[hhimring]

Thank you very much!

[erulissedances]

I liked this quite a lot, and love that excerpt that was your inspiration.

- Erulisse (one L)

[hhimring]

Thank you, Erulisse!
If you haven't come across Edwin Morgan yet, I can really recommend him!

[anna_wing]

This is absolutely splendid. Congratulations! I like the doubled meaning of 'light' both the Star and the love.

[hhimring]

Thank you very much!
Some of the imagery used in Edwin Morgan's poem that inspired me already sememed to resonate with that of the Legendarium. I don't know what Morgan thought about Tolkien, but he liked science fiction and was very interested in Beowulf...

[anna_wing]

I got interested in turn of the 20th century Western style generally - art nouveau and art deco, and 1920s fashion and jewellery, (still so comfortable, elegant and wearable!), and from that I've branched out, as one does, into the wider culture, and the more I read, the more I see how much Tolkien was influenced by the general zeitgeist of Western European culture, even if he didn't think so himself. It shows most obviously in his artwork , to my layman's eye, but it's there in the verse too.

[chestnut_pod]

Oh, lovely!

[hhimring]

Thank you very much!

[starspray]

Oh this is lovely!

[hhimring]

Thank you very much! I am glad you liked it!