Down to the River to Pray by annarobots  

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Title from the Alison Kraus song featured on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? original movie soundtrack. (Listen on YouTube) (Listen on Spotify)

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Summary:

It occurred to Elwing that she had made a mistake, coming along with these strange, fair folk, when Eärendil asked her, in a voice of such heartfelt earnestness that she nearly pushed him down and rubbed his face in the mud, if she wanted to meet Ulmo.
“Er,” she said, instead of enacting violence, “I don’t know. I’m not wild about strangers.”
Eärendil, who was not so easily dissuaded once he had set his course, did not laugh. “But he knows you already. It is only your heart that is estranged.”

Elwing, Eärendil, and the gifts of the River.

Major Characters: Elwing, Eärendil

Major Relationships: Eärendil & Elwing

Genre: General

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Rating: General

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Instadrabbling, 2026-Present
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 755
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thank you so much for reading & commenting!  I haven't written much Elwing before, and this is truly more of a concept I whipped up in the frenzy of instadrabbling, rather than deeply thought out character work, but I do like to think that she would be sort of baffled by these Gondolin Elves.  And also lonely enough to befriend them anyway.  

Oh lord! *rolls eyes back at Elwing*

(Although I can understand people being very desperate for some form of salvation after all they've been through, if it helps some of them to feel better in their hearts while they go about their practical work.)

Yes, my own beliefs (and lack of) would definitely line up more with Elwing than with the other characters in this story.  I feel like I'm still circling around the ideas I was trying to get at here, I want to revisit this concept some more.  Thank you for reading & commenting! <3