New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.
Maglor wanders the shore and inhales its salt-water scent in the mornings. He finds comfort in this routine, while weeks, years, or perhaps ages pass him over. Pass him through, he thinks, as a sound that could pass for laughter escapes him.
At times, he thinks, better the wound had not healed at all, that his flesh still wept fresh from the burn: a reason for his tears. A meaning.
For where reason and meaning lead, he thinks, an ending must follow.
Yet watching his hands move under sea-water, he feels no pain.
In his flesh, long-healed, only numbness remains.