Fragments of a Letter by Himring
Fanwork Notes
"At last so desperate was the case of Barahir that Emeldir the Manhearted his wife (whose mind was rather to fight beside her son and her husband than to flee) gathered together all the women and children that were left, and gave arms to those that would bear them; and she led them into the mountains that lay behind, and so by perilous paths, until they came at last with loss and misery to Brethil."
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Summary:
Fragments of a letter sent by the wife of Barahir to the High King of the Noldor upon her arrival in Brethil.
Now added: an account of their discovery by Erestor.
Major Characters: Celebrían, Emeldir, Erestor, Morwen
Major Relationships:
Genre:
Challenges: Fifth Birthday Celebration
Rating: General
Warnings:
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 350 Posted on 14 September 2010 Updated on 10 December 2016 This fanwork is a work in progress.
The Fragments
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Fragments of a letter sent by the wife of Barahir to the high king of the Noldor
***ness, King Fingo***send greet***
***have arrived in Br***now after***rwen and Ri***to Dor-L***
***months and***parted, left in Taur***after heavy ***do not kno***rahir and my***family, nephew*** left now but*** sends messa***he will withstan*** long sinc***nothing. Too few***
***draw from the fight***only we were attac***in mountains. Orc***away up to**blocked by avala***five childr***dead and also many***did but afterwa***snowed for tw***with severe fro***Then I***cause of a broken leg***but my cousin Mor***aliant and steadf***lways rem***thing too much for***
***commend to your gener ***trust both ***will receive among your***
***rs faithfully, Emeld***
Restored from scraps of parchment found by Erestor in the spine of a book entitled The Proper Role of Women in the library of Imladris.
Discovery
It is not the kind of book that you would expect to yield new information about a heroic woman of the First Age--and yet it does.
Double drabble featuring Erestor.
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He picked up the knife. He considered the contents of the volume. His lip curled.
“The Proper Role of Women”! Lady Celebrian had snorted with laughter when he showed her the treatise he had pulled from the back of a bottom shelf. Erestor was glad Celebrian had been able to see the funny side. He, too, had, at first. However, on second thought...
Whatever the opinions contained in it, the book was old. Its pages were intact but the dilapidated binding was a disgrace. He would see it rebound properly; he owed it to himself, if not to the author.
With precision, he sliced into the spine. It had been reinforced with strips of parchment: waste material, perhaps cut from pages of obsolete accounts. But, no, it looked more like...bits of a letter?
Carefully now! Curse the glue and those stains!
He laid the fragments out like a puzzle on his desk, began to move them cautiously around...
The names! The names! It was clearly written by a scribe, not the author, probably was a copy, but even so...!
‘Elrond! My lady Celebrian! I've found a letter written by Emeldir! Emeldir, the valiant Lady of Ladros--Beren's mother, your great-great-grandmother…’
Chapter End Notes
This was 2 x 100 words in Word. (AO3 disagreed.)
The prompt (at Tolkien Weekly on LJ) was: He picked up the knife.
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