Downfall by Lferion  

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Fanwork Notes

Written for Back to Middle Earth Month 2021 day 3, 'Water', and the SWG January 2017 Taboo Bingo, prompt 'Consequences' for the January 2023 Jubilee challenge.

On AO3 here.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Downfall of a land o'erburdened by travail - a sonnet.

Major Characters:

Major Relationships:

Genre: Poetry

Challenges: International Fanworks Day, Jubilee, Taboo

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 111
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Downfall

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Water runs in tears of rain, once frozen

Now storm-released as snow, as sleet, as hail

Waves, wind-whipped, do bring destruction, chosen

Downfall of land o'erburdened by travail

Where fire also feeds, burns hot and fierce

Consuming rock and stronghold, foe and friend

And air itself in twists sends trees to pierce

Through walls, tears earth, and breaks what will not bend

This too is Song, these notes that ground unknits

The elements unite to Balrogs slay

Chill dragonfire, swift scour Angband's pits,

Unchain the thralls and Morgoth hold at bay.

    What balance might be found, what green might grow

    'Neath restless waves, that o'er those lands now flow?


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