The Road to the Havens: The First Step by Himring
Fanwork Notes
Written for a song prompt (Kids See Ghosts, Reborn) in an insta-drabbling session for the Restoration and Rebuilding Challenge.
Warning for canon-typical background (outlawry and refugees).
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Summary:
Andvir later supplies information about Turin to the poet who wrote a poem about him, but what does it mean for him, personally, to be the son of one of the most agressive of Turin's outlaws and nevertheless end up at the Havens?
Now added: Blood on Stone (a drabble set earlier in Andvir's life).
Major Characters: Andvír
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges: Restoration and Rebuilding
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 201 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
The Road to the Havens: The First Step
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Almost Andvir turned back.
The risk was too high. Any of the other refugees might recognize him and give him away.
The shame was too great. Not just his earlier robberies—he supposed he was less to blame for those, because he had followed his father into outlawry, too young to make his own decisions. But after Dor Cuarthol, after first Turin and then Beleg had taught him better, he had relapsed, grown desperate enough to rob again.
But the Havens were his only real chance of survival—and his only chance of surviving without robbery, too. He moved forward.
Blood on Stone
Andvir, Androg's son, survived the death of the rest of Turin's group of outlaws on Amon Rudh.
Later, he remembers.
Warning for canonical multiple character death, as per summary.
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`I had been sent on an errand to another camp,’ said Andvir. ‘As I returned, the sun was setting and, as I approached, I remember how red the hilltop looked. But I thought nothing of it, just the seregon still in bloom and the sunset…’
‘And it was not?’
‘I guess it was, in truth, but I soon found signs of battle and, when I climbed the steps to the summit, there was blood all over the rocks. I stumbled about and, in my rising fear, I almost fell across my father’s body. He lay dead, and Neithan was gone.’
Chapter End Notes
Seregon the name of the plant growing on Amon Rudh, translates as "blood stone" (a purposeful foreshadowing by Tolkien in the Narn).
Neithan is Turin's name among the outlaws.
This was written for tolkien100 for the prompt: Blood on the rocks.
