Comments on Findis: On a Rock, Praying

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[Bringing my AO3 comment over here, since I read it here first and somehow ended up at AO3 when I went to comment later in the day. Also, I enjoyed the first instalment with Fingon!]

Finally made my way over here to see what you did with that old prompt. I really like this! The reflections on how asceticism and meditation do not "saintly" make are very true, and yet, at the same time, Findis really does do tangible good in the form of maintaining a place where others can come for a time to get away from their more hectic world.

The paragraph about vanity was my favorite. Very incisive, especially, "But if it ever ceased to be a bit of a joke, if she ever started taking herself seriously as a saint, that would be the time to leave."

I see a mouse found its way in from the song. :D



Thank you very much for taking the trouble to copy the comment across! I'm also glad you liked the instalment involving Fingon!

And thank you again for the detailed comment and also for introducing me to "Skellig"!

My problem with the prompt (which made me think of Findis right away when I first saw it) was always that Findis obviously isn't going to walk to "Romani" with books of history that she wrote in her pack and die there.

I've meanwhile thought of other characters that might fit that part or some of it (Beor?), but couldn't work it out.

For now I've just sneaked references to a book and an hour-glass into the Findis vignette.