Ruins by StarSpray
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Fanwork Information
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Summary: Finarfin comes to Nargothrond during the War of Wrath Major Characters: Finarfin Major Relationships: Genre: Family, Ficlet, Fixed-Length Ficlet, General Challenges: Rating: General Warnings: |
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| Chapters: 1 | Word Count: 150 |
| Posted on 3 May 2025 | Updated on 3 May 2025 |
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Ruins
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The gates of Nargothrond had been broken long ago, and lay in a twisted wreck inside what had once been a beautiful, cavernous hall filled with carvings and intricate reliefs and statues. Remnants of banners and tapestries clung, decaying, to the damp stone. The gold and treasure had been looted long ago, dragon-cursed.
Finarfin walked slowly through the halls and tried to imagine what it had been in its glory, when his son had set upon the throne in the great audience chamber, and laughter and song had echoed through the halls. He had wept when Elwing had told the tale of its fall and now he wept anew to see it for himself.
Finrod was lost, and Orodreth too, and now only shadows haunted their halls, and the only sound was the faint echo of the River Narog that flowed uncaring past, down toward the slowly encroaching Sea.
Achingly beautiful
I love this drabble so much. How heart breaking to think that Finarfin followed his children to Middle Earth in the end, though too late to share the joy that they had found there. It's particularly painful that it's Finrod's halls that he visits.