These Dark Waves by Himring
Fanwork Notes
Written for poem prompts during two Insta-drabbling sessions on the SWG Discord.
Allusions to Voronwe's canonical trauma.
Currently not planning any more of these, exactly, but if another sea prompt should come up, maybe?
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Summary:
Voronwe haunted by the Sea after meeting Tuor in Nevrast: two drabbles.
Major Characters: Voronwë
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges:
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 202 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is a work in progress.
The Unsilenced Sea
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Voronwe is not sure why it was difficult to turn his back on the Sea—whether he could not tear himself away from it or whether he was afraid at every step away that it would pounce on him, unwatched, and drag him back into its dark towering waves.
Ulmo wishes him to return with Tuor to Gondolin, but Osse does not.
But they walk east and the roar of the ocean slowly recedes—during the day. At night the sea whispers in his ears as if it was enmeshed in his own hair. Is it the same for Tuor?
Chapter End Notes
Poem prompt:
the scent of the unsilenced sea would linger on / in these dark waves
(From: Charlotte Mew, The Forest Road)
The main title is also taken from this prompt.
Surf-tormented
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Voronwe casts a look back over his shoulder. Tuor’s appearance had interrupted his line of thought. Now, at this moment before departure, he remembers.
Is he deceived or has the coastline of Nevrast changed since Turgon’s people left for Gondolin? There was more sand there surely? Has it all washed away? Has the sea even eaten into the rock?
Enough time has passed, he supposes, and the force of the waves battering the shore is strong enough. And yet he shudders inwardly, as if with a sudden vision of the lands of his childhood swallowed whole.
He looks resolutely ahead.
Chapter End Notes
The poem prompt was:
I stand amid the roar / of a surf-tormented shore (Edgar Allan Poet, A Dream Within a Dream),
The whole poem is here.
