A Man Who Flies From His Fear May Find He Has Only Taken A Shortcut To Meet It by LadySternchen
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Summary:
For this month’s ‘The Only Thing To Fear’-challenge, I tried something a little different- which was to write short ficlets for as many prompts as possible. (Admittedly, I wanted them to be drabbles at first, but I just couldn’t manage).
Some of these turned more into PTSD-stories than phobias, but I think it still fits the challenge.
Major Characters: Eärendil, Olwë, Celeborn, Celebrían, Rochallor, Caranthir, Maglor, Maeglin, Huor, Morwen, Daeron, Lúthien Tinúviel, Eluréd, Ingwion, Sauron, Elu Thingol, Galathil, Nimloth, Thranduil, Dior, Mablung, Elwing, Angrod, Turgon, Finarfin, Hiril, Elurín, Beleg, Aegnor, Melian, Elrond, Idril, Elmo
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Genre: Ficlet
Challenges: The Only Thing To Fear
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 35 Word Count: 9, 357 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
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Ok, this chapter needs a bit of an explanation, I think. Thônwen is the name I gave to Elmo’s wife, and in my headcanon, she is not only Melian’s sister-in-law but also her best friend. My regular readers know her well by now, but I felt explaining about her in this story can’t hurt. Oh, and this scene is set in the very early years of Eglador, when there was still much Melian had to learn about Elvish life and Thônwen was not yet used to living a life in peace.
Ok, here again, I feel I have to explain things. This is not how I wanted to write this chapter, but Elwë’s mother (another one for whom I need a name) had an opinion here 🤣 And Enel again proved to be the utter a***. I’m so sorry, because obviously, he has done nothing at all to annoy me so, but I just don’t like him.
As for background, I always pictured Elwë and Olwë to be rather shockingly close in age (for Elvish standards), so much so that they grew up almost like twins. So Elwë is probably a little over a year old here, by which time Elflings have usually mastered speech and song and dancing. So I guess it works out?
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