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narya_flame ([personal profile] narya_flame) wrote in [community profile] tolkienshortfanworks2021-06-27 09:25 pm

Winter Solstice, by Narya

Author: Narya
Title: Winter Solstice
Text type / Format: Half-drabble
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: G
Word Count: 50
Summary: Maglor in Avebury, at the turning of the year.

The morning gloom thinned. The revellers waited, wreathed in their own frozen breath - then the sun leapt over the stones and shone through the trees like blood.

A small girl gasped. "Fire!"

Maglor smiled. The deep winter dawn pressed into his bones. He turned to the west, and walked on.