A Rougher Sea, a Deeper Gulf by Himring
Fanwork Notes
Written at the February Insta-drabbling session on the SWG Discord. For the prompts see the end notes.
Warnings for canon-typical trauma after the Fall of Numenor. Elendil and his sons seem to have been able to cram an astonishing number of people onto their seven ships but, inevitably, not everyone they wanted to save could have been on them.
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Summary:
After the Fall of Numenor, the Elves of Lindon try to find out what happened to the ships of Isildur and Anarion. A pair of drabbles featuring Galdor and Anarion's wife.
Major Characters: Galdor of the Havens, Unnamed Female Canon Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges:
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
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Chapters: 2 Word Count: 204 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
A Rougher Sea, a Deeper Gulf (1)
POV Galdor
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They are somewhere alive and well, Elendil insisted.
Sometimes it was the fond father who insisted, and sometimes the leader of what was left of his people. It was hard to tell for listeners whether there was true Sight here or just desperate hope.
Galdor would have asked for Cirdan’s permission to take his ship and look, either way, as Elendil’s ships were too damaged to sail again.
Days of scanning the broken coast. Then a first sign. Galdor’s breath and hope quickened. A hull on the beach—and Anarion’s wife beside it, her hair twisted with mud and gold.
Chapter End Notes
The prompts for this drabble were:
Four-word prompt: quickening, somewhere, alive, well
Poetry quotation prompt: Their hair behind them twisted with mud and gold.
A Rougher Sea, a Deeper Gulf (2)
POV Anarion's wife
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She walks the muddy beach, with Meneldil on her arm, because she cannot bear to give him up, and with every step she thinks: that is what the living do.
Salt prickles on her skin. They have not found enough water for washing yet as well as drinking. She worries what to feed her son. He is not yet fully weaned, but she has not enough milk. What will they eat, any of them—rations spoiled by sea water?
Worrying about food is what the living do.
Anarion has gone to look for his brother. Her own family are drowned.
Chapter End Notes
The prompt for this was: I've been thinking: This is what the living do. From: Mary Howe, What the Living Do.
The main title is adapted from The Castaway, by William Cowper.
As it is said later that Isildur and Anarion take their ships up the Anduin, to make this entirely canon-compatible, you have to assume that, unlike Elendil's ships, this ship of Anarion's was capable of sailing again, at least after minor repairs.
This was 2 x 100 words in MS Word.
