zdenka: Miriam with a tambourine, text "I will sing." (Default)
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Author: Zdenka
Title: Lament
Characters: RĂ­an
Text type / Format: poetry
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: T
Warnings: Choose Not To Warn
Word Count: 122
Summary: My heart goes calling, calling, / Like a small bird in the leaves.
Author notes: Written for the 2022 amnesty, for the thematic prompt "harvest" (September 2022) and the formal challenge "quatrains" (April 2021). I realized on rereading that I hadn't actually used the word harvest, though I was sure I had . . . But I sometimes get music running through my head while I'm writing, and for this it was the opening chorus of Mendelssohn's Elijah: "The harvest now is over, the summer days are gone, and yet no power cometh to help us." Also written for fffc 2022 Winter Calendar for the prompt "four calling birds".

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hhimring: Estel, inscription by D. Salo (Default)
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Author: Himring
Title: Two epitaphs
Characters: Morwen, Rian
Pairing: canonical pairings implied
Text type / Format: poetry
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Non-graphic canonical death
Word Count: 15
Summary: Two very short poems: the first about the death of Morwen, wife of Hurin, the second about the death of Rian, wife of Huor. The two were cousins; refugees from Dorthonion, they both saw their new life in Dor-lomin destroyed by the outcome of the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, in different ways.
Author notes: This is a cross-post of a pair of older poems that happen to fit the November challenge theme "elegy".

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hhimring: Estel, inscription by D. Salo (Default)
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Author: Himring
Title: When Blossoms Bloomed
Characters: Rian of the House of Beor, Morwen of the House of Beor
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: drabble, poetry
Source / Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: Teens
Warnings: references to the fate of Dorthonion after the Dagor Bragollach and allusion to canonical character deaths
Word Count: 100 words
Summary: The refugees from Dorthonion arrive in Dor-lomin. Rian attempts to embrace their new environment, while her cousin Morwen mourns.
Author notes: For the thematic prompt of the May challenge, although the allusion to maying ended up being quite vague; it can perhaps also count toward April's quatrain challenge.
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