Jubilant Potluck by Grundy  

Obscene Gestures

Title is Taboo prompt picked for Jubilee instadrabbling by polutropos

Elrond was taken aback. Surely his grandmother had not just…

Fortunately for him, he was spared having to break the silence by his children’s laughter.

The boys knew what it meant, of course, but Tindomiel was the one finding it funniest. She was all but crying with mirth, keenly alive to the absurdity of it being Anairë who had just made that particular gesture.

Finrod, on the other hand, was trying to unobtrusively edge toward the door.

Anairë looked at them all in mild surprise.

“Does that not express enthusiasm?” she asked. “I learned it on a visit to Numenor.”