On the Nature of Time by Elrond's Library  

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Summary:

A series of half-drabbles using the one word prompts for the March/April 2025 Birthday Bash Challenge, looking at the perception of time through the eyes of Maiar (in general), Maedhros (specifically), and Aragorn and Arwen (specifically).

Major Characters: Eru Ilúvatar, Maedhros, Aragorn, Arwen

Major Relationships: Aragorn/Arwen

Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet, General

Challenges: Birthday Bash

Rating: General

Warnings: Character Death, Suicide
Chapters: 3 Word Count: 1, 510
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Table of Contents

Descent into Arda Marred

Using the first 10 one-word prompts: Awake, Gather, Spark, Tidings, Transmutation, Honing, Embrace, Deluge, Undercurrents, Plot. 

Each paragraph has exactly 50 words, according to gdocs. 

Maedhros

Using the second set of 10 one word prompts: Bridge, everyday/every day, Heritage, Displaced, Endeavor, Listen, Memory, Horizons, Tumbled, Caldera

each paragraph is 50 words exactly, according to gdocs.

Aragorn and Arwen

Using the third set of 10 one word prompts: Deathbed, Corrosion, jolt, dialogue, slight, mesh, reignite, cenotaph, revolution, annex

each paragraph is 50 words exactly.

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Absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful.  The rhythm of this is so good, you feel the stops and starts in the ways that the paragraphs are apportioned to different amounts of time.  I don't know which chapter is my favorite!  They're all so moving.

(Could I get a Scavenger Hunt prompt?)

Thank you! It was such an interesting challenge, to keep all the thoughts I wanted to have in 50 words. Somehow both more constricting and easier than a single drabble, if that makes sense? 

And, in the spirit of Mirrors Cracking, have a prompt about another famous thing breaking: "Of snares eluded, broken traps, / The prison opening, the chain that snaps."