B2MEM 2011 - The Silmarillion Extracts by Dwimordene

Constancy

Vinyamar: Some people have difficulty embracing changes and moving on. Write a story or poem or create artwork that shows the consequences of refusing to change.

Constancy

They were unlike the elements. Soft as beasts – softer, even, dying swiftly in his hands.

So Melkor changed them. He sang their skins hard, thickened bones, polished eyes to night-shine sharpness. He sang them lion's claws and teeth.

And he Tuned them to his own Song.

Long, painstaking labor, but they were finally – finally! – his own.

But the first cut her brother's throat in hatred of him. He nearly lost the lot.

Time bred their fierceness out somewhat, but not their fratricide – self-hatred remained. Something other sang still in them: forever inward-riven, between Elf and Orc, no peace but death...