Fire in Four Quarters by sallysavestheday

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Fanwork Notes

Inspired by the tengwar for the cardinal directions: numen, formen, rómen, hyarmen. Alas, there is no place that is truly safe. With the right kindling, everything burns.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

For the Tengwar challenge, four poems in which Beleriand and Middle-Earth are threatened by flames (once from each cardinal direction).

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Genre: Poetry

Challenges: Tengwar

Rating: General

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Chapters: 4 Word Count: 339
Posted on 1 May 2024 Updated on 1 May 2024

This fanwork is complete.

Table of Contents

North (formen): Bragollach
East (rómen): The Lands Beyond
South (hyarmen): Slaves
West (numen): Durin's Doors

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Ghostly minstrels / still spit defiance,

Ooohhh this gave me chills

through the memory of / their cracked and / blistered / lips.

Beautifully agonizing </3

Finrod listens.

Right to the heart.  The sorrows Men carry become Finrod's sorrows also, a shared history of their origins. 

I love Tolkien but his takes on the Easterlings and Southrons and other "lesser" men stick in my craw. Umbar in particular as an outpost of corrupted Numenor and then later the haunt of Castamir's sons and a center of piracy is a bitter portrait. So this asks, what does such treatment of others reap, in the end?