Explain This by Elrond's Library
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Summary:
Melkor demands an account of Mairon’s failures.
Major Characters: Melkor, Sauron
Major Relationships:
Genre: Drama, Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges: Allusive
Rating: General
Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 110 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
Explain This
Allusive Prompt: caught between a rock and a hard place
Four word Prompt: golden, light, speak, alone
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“Speak.”
“How am I to speak, Lord-father?”
“Swiftly, before my patience wears thin and you find yourself in a worse position than you already are.”
“Melyanna-sister’s nightingale daughter and one of the golden Hounds of Oromë-father’s train came, seeking a thrall.”
“You were wounded by a girl and a dog.”
“Oromë-father’s hounds are not insignificant foes, Lord-father. And Lúthien Tinúviel is a permaia, with power unaccounted for. She's an aberration of the Music, to be sure, but one that –”
“Enough. Your failure cost me, though you may count yourself lucky she took only one of the last vestiges of light.”
