Other Physics by Lferion
Fanwork Notes
Written For the Silmarillion Writer's Guild February 2020 Crackuary Bingo Challenge. Fill for I-5: The Dome of Varda is Real.
Many thanks to Runa and Morgynleri for encouragement and sanity-checking.
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Summary:
One could fall up forever, did not the ground hold fast.
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Genre: Crackfic, Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges: Crackuary
Rating: General
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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
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In Middle Earth, after the Sundering, the stars became, (were revealed to be) great furnaces, globes of fire, (all but one: the Silmaril bourne by Earendil shone upon Arda and Aman, unchanged), the Sun their incandescent sibling; the heavens were no ceiling, no over-arching vault, but vasty deeps, endless to eye or lens or instrument of art. One could fall up forever, did not the ground hold fast.
Yet in Aman a different physics held: the plane encircled, the Sea that touched all shores, and over all the crystal sphere: the Dome of Varda’s stars, high and hard and bright.
As somebody who loves…
As somebody who loves astronomy, I also love how chaotic Tolkien's astronomy is!
Thank you!
Chaotic indeed! Thank you for commenting!