The Fishes Advise Cirdan in the Matter of the Elven Rings by Himring
Fanwork Notes
This fills a number of the prompts of the Dark Matter challenge, as it does not contain any of the items in the "Words and Letters" section of the prompt generator, I believe. I suppose it might fail to not include "watery setting" or "poetry", although your mileage may vary.
Apologies for my lack of graphic skill! I hope, with a bit of goodwill, you can recognize three fishes. For more notes on the original work by Morgenstern I am riffing on and also on the title, see below.
Fanwork Information
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Description: Adaptation of a concrete poem by Christian Morgenstern for the Dark Matter Challenge. Major Characters: Major Relationships: Genre: Experimental, Humor, Poetry Type: Pastiche Challenges: Dark Matter Rating: General Warnings: |
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| Posted on 10 March 2025 | Updated on 10 March 2025 |
The Fishes
The original adapted here is Christian Morgenstern's Fisches Nachtgesang (Fish's Night Song). More on this in the end notes.
Chapter End Notes
Morgenstern's poem alludes humorously to a famous (and solemn) short poem by the German poet Goethe, Wanderers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Night Song). Morgenstern's poem shows the outline of a single fish, which is made up out of two types of diacritics conventionally used to describe classical metre (macron for length, breve for short vowels or syllables), arranged to look like fish scales. The point is also that the fish is mute! (Link to a scan of the page of the book uploaded to Wikipedia.)
My own title alludes to the scenes featuring Cirdan at the start of Season 2 of The Rings of Power. If you haven't seen them, I hope you find it funny anyway!
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