Yavanna's Dream by MisbehavingMaiar

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Fanwork Notes

Author’s note: I finally gave this drabble an ending I’m happy with, just in time for Legendarium Ladies April! :D

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 (Warnings for brief body horror and violence).


Fanwork Information

Summary:

"I multiply. I diversify. I evade. I grow. And if you would subdue me, Gorthaur, you must catch me first."  

Yavanna has a nightmare about her sister, Vana, confronting Sauron and the (allegorical) rise of industry.

Major Characters: Sauron, Vána, Yavanna

Major Relationships:

Genre: General

Challenges: Back to Nature

Rating: General

Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 768
Posted on 12 April 2014 Updated on 12 April 2014

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Yavanna's Dream

Vana vs. Sauron, or Nature vs. Industry explored through the medium of EPIC AINUR FIGHT SEQUENCES. 

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Oh, this is lovely, Wesley!  The imagery is fabulous.  I especially like...

Our smallest Valië grows disparate, vanishing into the thousand dewdrops and curling leaves and buds of the forest, no longer distinguishable as a round face with lavender eyes. A light grey rabbit skids out out of the rushes and thumps a warning, zigzagging away into the trees. 

The Maia breathes deeply and fills his bellow-lungs, reaching a hand into the earth and muttering a Song whose sound is rocks falling and crushing and grinding to dust. Sand piles around his fingers; the earth sinks, flowers choke and smother under the sifting ground, a field of summer grasses becomes a wide swath of dunes. 


The above and plenty of other passages are more poetry than prose, and they unfold in a splendidly cinematic fashion.

As much as I embrace technology and thus am of the devil's own party in that regard, Vána's final words ring true:  in every abandoned factory, in deserted, crumbling parking lots, and from the ground of Chernobyl, life springs anew.

Very well done!

This is absolutely fantastic!! I really love it, especially the ending. It brings to mind many real-life examples of places where people have damaged the enrionment so badly they can't live there, and now are overgrown with folliage.

I really like your characterization of Vana, too. She's being chased but she's not prey. She's non-combative but not passive. It's really intriguing and it meshes really well with the way you depict her as a sort of primal force of nature.  

Great story!!