Tengwar Acrostics by Himring

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Fanwork Notes

Prompt fills for the following tengwar: malta (gold), hwesta (breeze), tinco (metal), calma (lamp).

The second ficlet contains a short poem (the lullaby of the title).

As acrostics, these are also prompt fills for the tolkienshortfanworks challenge for May.

The fourth acrostic was written for Tolkien Ekphrasis Week (Day 1: Ceramics and Glasswork) and cross-posted after it had been revealed for that challenge on AO3.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Responses to the Tengwar Challenge in which first letters spell out the name of a tengwa: 1) Early Encounter (Nerdanel, Indis); 2) Numenorean Lullaby (Almarian, Aldarion); 3) Tink-Tink (Telchar); 4) Such lamps as once shone in Khazad-dum (Celebrimbor).

Major Characters: Almarian, Celebrimbor, Indis, Nerdanel, Tar-Aldarion, Telchar

Major Relationships:

Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Family, Ficlet, Fluff, Poetry

Challenges: Tengwar

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 4 Word Count: 334
Posted on 17 May 2024 Updated on 15 June 2024

This fanwork is complete.

Table of Contents

Early Encounter

An early encounter between Queen Indis and Nerdanel.

Acrostic for malta (gold)

Numenorean Lullaby

Almarian, wife of the Crown Prince of Numenor, sings a lullaby to her children.

Acrostic: hwesta (breeze)

Tink-Tink

Telchar making a famous sword, in the deeps of time.

Acrostic: tinco (metal)

Such lamps as once shone in Khazad-dum

Celebrimbor makes a gift for Narvi.

Acrostic: calma (lamp)

Comments

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Oooh, don't see these two interact much early on, I love this as a choice!  And well done on the acrostic :)

I quite like that lullaby!  But I also deeply sympathize with the inability to sleep when it's too hot. Uuugh!

Little (medium) Nerdanel avidly watching her dad to learn is such a mood, as is the idea of her relationship with Indis starting so early on. (Maybe Indis introduced them?)

As far as we know, she doesn't go in for making jewellery later, much, but I'm sure medium Nerde would want to learn *all the things* from her dad!

If Indis did introduce Nerdanel to Feanor, that would be one way of setting up a comedy-of-manners-type romance of initial misunderstandings... I haven't actually got a fixed head-canon about their first meeting and enjoy reading all kinds of scenarios!

 

oh I LOVE this!  That second line especially for two reasons: because when one is deep into the creative process it is so very easy to lose track of everything else, but also the way you worded it makes it feel like Telchar was down there for years just focused so entirely on this piece that whole aspects of the world changed and he didn't even know.

Imagining him blinking into the sun for the first time and being like "what the hell happened up here?!  How long was I down there!?!"

<3 <3 <3

Thank you!

This is a piece in which I only gradually figured out what I was writing about as I was composing it.

But yes, I really was going for that feeling.

It occurred to me, some way through, that the reason why we are never told about the original commissioner or first intended owner is not only that Telchar forgot about them while he was working, but perhaps something happened while he was working that meant they did not receive Narsil when it was finished...