Far From The World We Know by Himring
Fanwork Notes
Title taken from the lyrics of "Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
Further minor allusions to the lyrics in the text.
The mood is rather different, though.
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Summary:
At the top of Elwing's white tower.
Earendil has landed, back from traversing the pathless sky, and Elwing has flown to meet him.
Major Characters: Elwing, Eärendil
Major Relationships:
Challenges: Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings:
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 168 Posted on 9 August 2017 Updated on 9 August 2017 This fanwork is complete.
Chapter 1
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‘Speak! Speak to me,’ shrieks Elwing. ‘Speak, speak!’
Her arms are featherless now, five-fingered, but she wields them like wings, restlessly, as if she were about to take off again.
‘Elwing,’ Earendil says. His lips and tongue seem cold and stiff from disuse. His voice is faint and far in his own ears, like the creaking of Vingilot's rigging in the clear icy currents he has sailed high above, in Ilmen.
He takes her hands to still them. She seizes his, fiercely, clinging to him.
‘Tell me!’ she says. ‘Talk to me of what you saw!’
He begins to speak, incoherently at first, but gradually sentences take shape and speech flows more freely. She calms as he speaks, holding on. Warmth seeps into him from their clasped hands.
She begins to ask questions and he answers. It is just them, up there, far from the world they knew. Just the two of them, but they talk each other down, keep it real.
They talk each other—almost—to the ground.
Chapter End Notes
This is really part of an Earendil thing (fic project? sequence? series?) that has always refused to come together.
There is an earlier ficlet about Earendil and Elwing, "The Girl from Doriath" (in the "Taking Readings" anthology), that also grew out of this context
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