Your Song by Kaylee Arafinwiel

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Fanwork Notes

This belongs properly to "For Little Price", the Beren/Luthien story that makes up the majority of "Taboos were made to be Broken" from January. It is, however, a jump ahead from there.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

"But Lúthien came to the halls of Mandos, where are the appointed places of the Eldalië, beyond the mansions of the West upon the confines of the world. There those that wait sit in the shadow of their thought. But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him..."

Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel, Maiar, Mandos

Major Relationships:

Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Romance

Challenges: Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 159
Posted on 17 July 2017 Updated on 17 July 2017

This fanwork is complete.

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Your Song

Inspired by "Your Song" by Elton John, which I know from "Moulin Rouge". The text is used throughout and I disclaim it.

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Well, Maranwe was teasing her and Luthien ran with it. But Luthien is Melian's daughter, and Melian was in the service of Irmo who is Namo's brother in the Thought of Iluvatar. In Fiondil's "Wars of the Valar", Namo treated Melian very much as a younger sister. So it didn't seem out of the bounds of possibility that Luthien might be considered Namo's niece or grandniece, LOL.

Thank you so much! Yes, it's the only one I could think to fit. I used the logic that: Namo and Irmo are brothers in Iluvatar's Thought; Melian/Melyanna was Irmo's servant, and in the original conception of Tolkien's legendarium he thought of the Maiar as the Valar's actual children; so by that logic, Namo could be viewed as Melian's uncle and Luthien's great-uncle. I think even with the changes Tolkien later made, the Valar treated the Maiar very much as either younger siblings or children, in anticipation of the Children to come. So Maranwe isn't too off base in calling Luthien Namo's niece, even teasingly :)