Mim's Memories by Anérea
Fanwork Notes
Inspired by The Petty Dwarf by Huorinde
Within days of learning about Mîm's love of nature and emotive creativity (and his lament at the loss of all he had made), I landed on Huorinde's haikus about the Petty Dwarf. Their line "Tink, tonk: a dew drop, lamp of the stars' glow" tinkled around inside my mind inspiring all sorts of images.
And since Hidden Paths (a fortnight-long event dedicated to the celebration of smaller Tolkien canons) was on, and considering that Mîm's Klage may well be Tolkien's smallest canon, I was doubly inspired to create this moodboard, with the mood of the audio prompt Ashokan Farewell, composed and performed by Jay Ungar to compliment it.
(Originally posted on AO3 in March 2023.)
Fanwork Information
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Description: In his youth, Mîm, the Petty Dwarf, was enamoured of the beauty of nature, and poured his very being into the fine sculptures of flowers that he forged from gold and silver and gemstones. Canon Source: Tolkien's Poetry Major Characters: Mîm Major Relationships: Genre: Type: Manip/Photomontage, Moodboard/Collage, Photography Challenges: Rating: General Warnings: |
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Chapter End Notes
While researching Tarn Aeluin for another fic, I stumbled upon an the existence of an obscure part-verse, part-prose poem about Mîm. It has since been published in the The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, but at that stage all I had to go on was the little-known German translation, "Mim's Klage", a discussion on the Tolkien Collector's Guide and Kontu, a Finnish Tolkien fan site, and the video Brewing Books made about their translation.
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Photo credits:
Stars, dewy grass flower, and lilies are mine.
Rock (silicon carbide) courtesy of USGS; hands (edited to include the lily) by Tahlia Doyle, both via unsplash.com
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