Opals and Diamonds Strewn upon the Shores by Himring
Fanwork Notes
Written at an Insta-drabbling session on the SWG Discord for two prompts of March 15:
Word: gather
Poem: a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together (Ecclesiastes 3:5)
For warnings see summary (aftermath of the First Kinslaying).
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Summary:
After the First Kinslaying, the Teleri look around and see the environment of Alqualonde in a new light.
Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Ainairos
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges: Birthday Bash
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
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Opals and Diamonds Strewn upon the Shores
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‘You can’t,’ Ainairos said. ‘I would like to clear them from our beaches, too—all the flawed jewels they gave, pretending to bestow gifts when they were simply getting rid of sparkling garbage. Like fools, we accepted them as symbols of friendship and scattered them here. Now we see what it was worth! They threw friendship away like those stones. But there are far too many—thousands of years’ worth of them.’
The woman who was gathering them up straightened.
‘Thousands of years of friendship! Not so lightly tossed away. I will use their gifts in the memorial we make.’
Chapter End Notes
Ainairos is the Teler (Solosimpe) who leads a campaign against the Noldor among those who remain in Valinor in the Book of Lost Tales I. He had escaped the First Kinslaying, but his brother was killed.
100 Words in MS Word
The mental image of the jewelled sands....
....of Alqualondë, perhaps mixed with blood in the process of being washed away by the sea, is chillling. So much history, so many tears, and so very heartbreaking.
Thank you, wisteria! I…
Thank you, wisteria!
I suppose I might no expect many of the jewels to be right on the harbourfront, where they might be a bit impractical underfoot. So possibly they were not directly mingled with blood so much, but I was certainly thinking "chilling"!