A Khuzdul proverb

[anerea]

Author: Anerea

Title: A Khuzdul proverb

Text type / Format: ficlet (actually just a proverb)

Source / Fandom: Silmarillion

Rating: G

Word Count: 17
Author notes: For the February prompts "melting" and "proverb"

Summary: A Khuzdul proverb

Rather less eloquent in its Westron translation, this proverb probably came into more common use after the fall of Thorin Oakenshield, although its origins quite possibly go as far back as the battles over the Nauglamir:


The delight of gold
lies in the melting and moulding
more than in the having and holding.

~
(Inspired by the Ainulindalë: "Of the fabric of Earth had Aulë thought, to whom Ilúvatar had given skill and knowledge scarce less than to Melkor; but the delight and pride of Aulë is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work.").

Comments

[zdenka]

I like it!

[anerea]

Yay! Thanks 😊

[shirebound]

That's terrific.

[anerea]

Ooh, thank you!

[starspray]

Ohh, I like that a lot!

[anerea]

:) thanks!

[hhimring]

I like that a lot; both the rhythm and the rest of the sound patterns work really well.
And I also like the connections you make here, between the Khuzdul proverb and Aule and with the incidents that might encourage the use of it.
(ETA: if the Khuzdul original was even more eloquent, it must have been quite something!)
Thank you for the prompt fill!

[anerea]

Thanks for the smile-creating compliment! Glad you like this.

[lferion]

A very fine piece! You put a lot into a small space there.

[anerea]

Thank you! (It may take up a small space, but it took a long time to form! The idea arrived at the beginning of the month but it only came to me how to express it on the last day! Nothing like a deadline to get things going!)