SeaLight by Anérea  

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Fanwork Notes

For the Book By Its Cover challenge, I chose this one for my prompt:

Book cover titled "How To Swim" showing an illustration of a person swimming in the sea.

Also inspired by the TSFW prompt "New Beginnings" with the formal challenge being "alliterative verse". (Which I'm loosely interpreting to include prose.)

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Born on the Great Journey, I never knew Cuiviénen, but ever since we departed the shores of Rhûn I have missed the sensation of silky saltwater against my skin.

A Telerin Elf's first experience of the waters of Belegaer, at the end of the Great Journey.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Elves, Falathrim, Sindar, Teleri

Major Relationships:

Genre: Adventure, Ficlet, General

Challenges: Book by Its Cover, New Year's Resolution

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 338
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SeaLight

On reaching the Sea of Rhûn on the Great Journey from Cuiviénen, some of the Elves tarried a while along the shores. In early drafts of LotR the sea was called the Sea of Rhûnaer, which I decided to use here.

Nówë was Círdan's name before he took the epessë of shipwright.

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That makes me happy to hear! Pictures are for looking at and getting lost in so I'm delighted it brought you some meditative calm, and I hope you enjoyed your swim afterwards!

(Truth be told, I kept coming back to look at this picture too. It's a composite of two of my night photos, but I particularly like the way the glow of the words sits on the water, which was just one of those serendipitous things that happen in the process of creating. It doesn't look as good without them!)

Thank you! It was fun reading and I'm so pleased you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting here too!

(This is based on an experience I had in the sea once, and I found that while I was reading it yesterda  I was seeing and feeling it all again rather than the words. (And then today the howling gales finally stopped and I've been down to the beach twice to do just as my OC did, again, and again!))