New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.
Terentaulë, the wife of Curufin, didn't always intend to stay in Aman. Prompt: good, love, strength, accomplish
Sometimes it takes strength to do nothing?
I was a good wife. He cannot, in truth, claim otherwise (though he may well try. Probably, he will try.) When we departed Tirion, I dreamed we would accomplish a great love, an epic love, worthy of song. I marched at his side, girded with a sword, Telperinquar in my arms, the drumbeat of my boots on the road as steady as my heart.
Within days, those boots were blood-soaked. And the heart--
I stood on the quays of Alqualondë; I let him take our son. I could not--
So I did nothing.