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A Sense of History: Thálatta! Thálatta! While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
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While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
With Gildor Inglorion we finally climb the stairs of Elostirion and look on the view, and what we see appears to reveal a hidden thread in the story of Frodo Baggins. This post reads two annotated translations of two Elvish songs to step through a crossroads in the narrative to arrive at the tower on the margin of the story, wherein is a stone that is a window onto Valinor.
In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.
Bilbo recounts, in verse, the attempt of Gandalf, Beorn, and him to cross the Forest River after the Battle of Five Armies. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition.
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Very entertaining! I love how you have built the story around the original drabble. And it’s always fun to meet Maglor in a modern era setting, so thanks for writing this!
Maglor met those kids on the beach, scented an air of trouble about them and at once turned into meddlesome Maglor, almost like a regular superhero transformation!
Glad you liked those hints about the history of the site!
I like this a lot--particularly Maglor coming around to make sure everyone at the dig is okay. And the idea of an old Black Numenorean settlement is fascinating! I wonder what sort of things are left to find there.
Maglor is not interested, of course, having seen it all, but the finds in a Black Numenorean settlement could be very interesting indeed! As long as you don't pick up any lingering nastiness along with them.
I would like the further adventures of Sally-Ann and Dr. Fëanorion, please, because surely they go on to unearth more treasures together. Besides, this fits nicely with my "Maglor, underwater archaeologist" headcanon, and surely will result in the rediscovery of "Atlantis."
Anyway, lovely, and has whole worlds in this small fic!
Thank you very much! Really glad you liked my two protagonists' dynamic and the archaeological theme!
I left lots to the reader's imagination here.
I'm not sure whether any further adventures will ever happen. I'm not a very plotty writer and don't often commit to action scenes. But who knows? I like to revisit OCs, once they have popped up in a fic!
Maglor as underwater archaeologist is a great idea I'd read, though!
Well, that's only comparatively speaking, when the alternative is Doom with a capital D and: "To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well", etc.! But yes!
Oh my! So the Curse/Doom lingers on through the aeons! Murphy was just opportunistic when he took credit.
I like where this took us, with Black Númenoreans, moon runes and all — and it must have been quite startling to hear Maglor start singing words of power out the blue. I'm glad he's still around, helping here and there.
Glad you enjoyed the mix of canonical allusions here!
Maglor's song of power must have been startling indeed, except I suppose Sally-Ann was a bit prepared for song magic already, because Maglor had also been using it at night before. But to actually see it working would have been something else!
That original comment about Murphy's Law and the Doom was written very intuitively, in the drabble. I don't mean they are the same exactly, I think, but that there is an overlap, a kind of Venn's diagram, that Maglor is acknowledging. I have Beleg comment elsewhere that the Noldor seem to feel that they are being published directly even when things just go wrong in what Beleg feels is a more "ordinary" way (which could still have to do with Morgoth and the Marring originally, of course).
Poor thing. It would be frustrating to have found something so exciting (moon letters!) on the archaeological dig, only to have it neutralised by her newest employee, the mysterious Maglor. I love that he just drops in on them, mainly because digging up artefacts on a Black Númenorean site could be lethal to humans. 💗
Ah, yes, Murphy's Law. So many times that it applied to them, the Sons of Fëanor would expect more wrong than right. After all, "To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well".
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