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Erestor lay up against a tree, brown washed to black in the wet of the snow. The black disc of the new moon sailed across the dark sky. Erestor wished it were gone. He had no need to look into dark eyes any longer.
He was dying.
(AKA Erestor unwittingly travels back in time to the…
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.” “It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?” “It’s not as though I…
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
Concerned by his responses to the paraphernalia of healing, Fingon steals Maedhros from his room for an impromptu garden excursion. Maedhros battles with dark thoughts.
Rescued from a brutal Angband hunt, an ex-thrall with a strange and powerful artifact embedded in his spine is brought to Himring, for it is one of the only places in Beleriand which welcomes such folk. Though he has no memories of his life before, Anniavas slowly becomes accustomed to his new…
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Bilbo, the strange old hobbit with the wandering feet, senses something special in young Frodo the first time he sees the lad; as they become close, they find in each other a cameraderie not well understood by other hobbits. Five poignant moments between Bilbo and Frodo Baggins over the course…
A Chieftain is dead. And whilst the events surrounding his death are unclear, a son tries to come to terms with his loss.
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I think maybe Luthien, Beren and the Silmaril are all mainly symbols to him--they stand for something else rather than themselves. But Huan and he were real to each other. Perhaps that is rather too solemn a thought for such a short piece, though...
I find it rather terribly tragic than funny (as I told you before) and I think that losing Huan was a huge blow -- the greatest one of those sad news Celegorm received. You conveyed his feelings very well. Greatly done!
Poor Celegorm. I was amused by this, in a "aw, he loves his dog so" way combined with a "this is morbidly delightful" way. And I think the current title works well.
Awww Poor poor Turko! To me it reads that he has resigned to the fact that he lost his dog to someone else, but even in the end she did not live up to his high standards of dog care?
More or less! After all, she is the daughter of a Maia and she bested Morgoth, but when Huan has to fight his greatest enemy, she is not even around... I suppose she had her reasons, but I guess Turko feels she could have tried harder.
This really breaks my heart, as the relationship between Huan and Celegorm is one of the purest int he Silmarillion, in my opinion - I was rather pissed when Huan without warning suddenly betrayed my dearest Tyelcormo.
I think too that after everything that happened, this is the hardest blow for Celegorm yet - by defeating him and Curufin Lúthien showed that she had the strenght to care for Huan, that she somehow deserved his loyalty, so to say, and that in his eyes she's failed in her single most important task.
It is really a very hard blow for Celegorm, I think. And I do think (on some level, at least) Luthien had gained his respect and so he had expected her to protect Huan as much as Huan tried to protect her.
You could argue that Huan didn't really leave Celegorm quite without warning, though. At any rate, he went back to him, the first time.
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