Little Sparrow by Himring

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Fanwork Notes

My prompt for the challenge was: the fat is in the fire.

This is a brief scene in Lorgan's hall during which nothing happens that needs extra warnings but the general background is the canonical one and therefore pretty grim.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Life as a thrall of Lorgan is not easy. Tuor's capture complicates things.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), House of Hador

Major Relationships:

Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet

Challenges: Idiomatic

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 407
Posted on 13 October 2024 Updated on 13 October 2024

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Little Sparrow

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Painful, how you've made the "unwomanly" thralls into actual people -- I love this peek into her mind, and how she's a survivor rather than not. Her strength really is in persisting and continuing, even if Tuor (JRRT) doesn't think so! I enjoyed this, many thanks.

Thank you very much, Quente! Good to hear that that came across like that. Of course, Tolkien did something similar with Aerin already (and I appreciate that he is capable of that empathy when he is paying attention), but I really wanted to extend that respect and sympathy also to women who are not close relatives of the protagonists! 

Lots of interest in this short piece. I like the balance of humanizing Easterlings generally with the intriguing/creepy visits of Lorgan to Angband. Your OC is sympathetic but sensible. And Tuor does decide to be patient under the poor treatment and bide his time, so maybe that is a wisdom he picks up from people like your Pinfileg. Nice work! 

What a terrible situation Pínfileg is in! I always enjoy reading your OCs. I appreciate that you looked and humanized one of the people who Tolkien dismisses. Lorgan's visits to Angband are intriguing and sinister . . . And his trying to hurt the thralls through any remaining loyalty to Húrin's family reminds me of the Ring's or Sauron's temptations, twisting the things people love and their best qualities to use against them.

Thank you very much, Zdenka! Good to hear that you liked reading about this OC! 

Tolkien does not give us much about Lorgan, but to me as a reader he gives off a more sinister impression than Brodda, because what he does seems more deliberate and he seems to be acting purposefully for Morgoth's interests as much as his own. (Of course, that doesn't make the sufferings of Brodda's victims any less!)