On the Second Singing by Lferion  

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Fanwork Notes

Written for the Silmarillion Writer's Guild February 2024 challenge "Meet and Greet". Prompts used are detailed below.

Posted on AO3 here.

Prompts used:

Verse 1: Birdseed for Manwë | Waiting for a Higher Power

Verse 2: Lost in memory | Collecting things | Being delayed | Wrong interpretation

Verse 3: Shooting Star | Making lists | Unusual weather

Verse 4: A Favorite Place | A fresh start

The Remmirath is the constellation modernly known as Orion.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Various thoughts and question about the end of the world, and what part the Elves might play. A drabble poem.

Major Characters:

Major Relationships:

Genre: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General, Poetry

Challenges: Meet & Greet

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 130
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This fanwork is a work in progress.

On the Second Singing

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<p>Oh who will birdseed bring<br />

For Manwë, Lord of Air?<br />

Or invocations sing<br />

To Varda, 'gainst despair?<br />

Weep at any spring<br />

For Ulmo's aid and care?</p>

<p>In memory we hold them<br />

Beneath the Remmirath<br />

Collecting every gem,<br />

Putting off the wrath<br />

That surely must condemn<br />

For straying from the path</p>

<p>Call forth the shooting-stars<br />

Comets, cosmic dust<br />

They sing their final bars<br />

With hearts yet full of trust<br />

Hope fireflies in jars<br />

Weathering strange gusts</p>

<p>Lost within the story,<br />

A favored place and fair<br />

Ephemera of glory<br />

Lies light in Aulë's hair<br />

Let Arda start feliciatory<br />

The Second Singing dare.</p>

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