Pinching Time by Anérea
Fanwork Notes
A sketch created for the Gnome Tome Challenge, inspired by the prompt "The Valar cannot undo history without undoing Ea".
(And which serendipitously could be a portrait of elennalore's AU version of Varda and the destruction of the Two Lamps: Radiance—also written for a Gnome Tome challenge prompt: 'any one of the Valar might have taken the paths of Melkor and become like him: one was enough''. So I've gifted this her.)
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Summary:
Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...
Major Characters: Valar, Varda
Major Relationships:
Genre: General
Challenges: Gnome Tome
Rating: General
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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 32 Posted on 1 November 2021 Updated on 3 November 2021 This fanwork is complete.
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This prompt immediately made me wonder what "undoing Eä" would actually look like, with images of stars and nebulae swirling through my mind's eye, before I wondered what the quote was actually referencing. After reading the relevant section in NoME I decided my initial imagery would be far more fun to work with. And then I saw the mind-blowingly beautiful Pillars of Creation (Varda's hand) at the centre of the Eagle Nebula, which Varda said she was particularly proud of and that she'd gladly pose for me...
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