Never Shall I See The Place by LadyBrooke

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Fanwork Notes

Random elf probably stood up and recited this in front of the Valar, assembled elves of Valinor, and whoever else would be shocked by it. I feel like writing this poem to begin with would be a giant f you to the Valar. :P

Written for Poetry Month, in addition to A Woman's Sceptre. My prompt for A Woman's Sceptre was “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” ~ Isabelle Eberhardt, which was the perfect prompt for me. :D

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Never shall I see the place,

Where Enel woke and Enelyë roamed.

 

A poem of a Sindar/Silvan elf in Valinor.

Major Characters: Original Character(s)

Major Relationships:

Genre: Poetry

Challenges: Woman's Sceptre

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 127
Posted on 30 April 2017 Updated on 30 April 2017

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Never shall I see the place,

Where Enel woke and Enelyë roamed,

Where Elves dwelt free,

And doom was death not Valinor.

 

Never shall I see the place,

Where Denethor walked,

And became a King,

Only to be slain.

 

Never shall I see the place,

Where Lenwë turned from his path,

Nor where he settled with his people,

On the shores of the Anduin.

 

Never shall I see the place,

Where Elu dwelt in a thousand caves,

And Lúthien sang to nightingales,

In the shadows of the trees.

 

Never shall I see the place,

Where my ancestors lived and died,

Never shall I see the place,

Where I would choose to live,

But instead live here,

In a land I cannot leave.  

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Thank you, Himring! I'm glad the repetition is effective.

Honestly, that's just where Denethor ended up. :P For a character that has shown up to speak in exactly one fic, he tends to lurk in the background of most of my Celeborn or Thranduil ranting about the Valar fics. In a lot of ways, I think he ends up being a more effective king that we both hear about and who didn't want to go to Valinor than Elu is, because Elu just got delayed when he stumbled accross Melian. To an extent, I think that diminishes the grief of him ending up reborn in Valinor, whereas Denethor doesn't have that.

It does read as a big "f you" to the Valar, and I can't help but wonder what happened to the poet. (Congratulations, here is your Go Straight Back To Mandos card?) She must have caused quite a stir. The poem is beautiful in spite of its bitterness, and the repetitions really drive the poet's point home.

Thank you! I hope she didn't get sent straight back to Mandos, though they might have exiled her like they did Fëanor (except unlike Fëanor, I don't think she cares. It might have set off a rush of Sindar and Silvan trying to get themselves exiled).

I'm glad the repititions drive the point home.