O, Cousin Mine by sallysavestheday  

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Fanwork Notes

Written for the October 2023 Experimental challenge, using the prompts first person plural point of view and characters are unnamed.

Tolkien shows and tells us a great deal about what Elves think of Orcs. What might Orcs think of Elves, if given a quiet space to speak?

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Summary:

Orcs reflect on Elves.

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Challenges: Experimental

Rating: General

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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 243
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O, Cousin Mine

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Really powerful! It's interesting seeing how your style adapts to the pov, too. It felt fresh and very immediate, but still gorgeous as ever. 

Two of my favourite lines:

"One tangle of limbs is not unlike another: you in your soft beds, we in our coiled heaps, all breathing."

"The pulse that drives you is our drums in the deep; our hollow hearts, still beating."

This whole piece has a very poetic structure. Thank you!

Gorgeous as always, and so very moving. Each echo of what the Orcs once were, and the pieces of that that they still hold dear, even now, even if mirrored differently, is so beautifully incisive.

"On the coldest nights, when the sky’s deep dome opens, what remains of you in us still sings. The fear cleans our ancient wounds; in our terror, we still revere the stars." Gorgeous and haunting.

"The pulse that drives you is our drums in the deep; our hollow hearts, still beating." Powerful!