Gleaming Spires by Himring
Fanwork Notes
SWG Challenge prompt: Soundtrack: "Hamamda Ilk Gözyaslari" by Can Atilla. (Apologies for loss of diacritics.)
How unpredictable instrumental music prompts are! I listened to the piece twice, one week apart.
What somehow emerged on the second listening--this drabble--was not much like what I would have expected when I listened the first time...
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Summary:
Aredhel arrives in Gondolin.
Major Characters: Aredhel
Major Relationships:
Artwork Type: No artwork type listed
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges: Soundtrack
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 99 Posted on 21 March 2020 Updated on 21 March 2020 This fanwork is complete.
Chapter 1
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She had been making appreciative noises all day. There was much to admire. Her brother, his architects, the masons—they were rightly proud of their achievements.
She could have wished the city to be less obviously modelled on Tirion. It made her a little homesick, an inconvenient distraction, when she was trying to be so very positive. Yet she did well, satisfying everyone, except, perhaps, Idril.
In the evening, she slipped away, climbed to the top of the King’s Tower and looked toward Crissaegrim.
Into the evening breeze she whispered: It is a prison, but the views are nice enough.
Chapter End Notes
The title is a prompt from the Tolkien100 community on LJ.
100 words in MS Word
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