swan song by TheChasm  

Fanwork Notes

This was written for the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2024 in partnership with that-angry-noldo, whose beautiful art can be found here as well as embedded within the story.

Fanwork Information

Summary: Elwing was her name — an odd name, to go with certainly the oddest person we had ever met. The tower she dwelt in was tall and white, and lay some miles to the north of our village: barely more than an hour’s walk, for two bored children in search of adventure, and yet certainly more isolated than anyone else we knew. We liked to stand one at each end of the narrow, winding staircase, and listen to the echoes of our voices ringing against the stone. At the top of the tower the stairs opened up into a little turret room, bare and simple, with a neatly made bed tucked against one wall and a small clay oven beside the other. That was, at first, the main draw: for Elwing was a prodigious baker, and generous with the fruits of her labour. When first she sighted us playing on the cliffside she gave us warm sweet pastries flecked with nuts, and many times after a loaf or two of fresh bread — to carry home to our mother, she said, although more often than not it had disappeared by the time we arrived. In the Second Age, Elwing tells two Telerin children a fairytale. Major Characters: Elwing, Finarfin, Eärwen, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Major Relationships: Eärwen/Finarfin, Elwing & Original Character Genre: Folktales/Myths/Legends, General, Het Challenges: Rating: General Warnings:
Chapters: 1	Word Count: 18, 713
Posted on 7 September 2024	Updated on 31 October 2026
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