Red As Blood by The Wavesinger

Warnings: Graphic self-harm, torture, minor allusion to rape.

A huge, huge thank you to my beta, CrackinAndProudOfIt, who patiently helped me to revise this fic (or rather, revised it, with occasional input from me) for the better part of a year, and put up with me when I disappeared for six months (or so). Thank you, Crackers, for re-writing the whole damned thing. I expect you're sighing with relief right now. I'm trying to sell my mistakes off to The Man In The Moon for one of his spells (get the reference, anyone?), but until I find a way to do so, all mistakes are, sadly, mine.

Set after the Nirnaeth, before the Ruin of Beleriand.

Written for the B2MeM13 Day 14 prompt: "Thus at last the Teleri were overcome, and a great part of their mariners that dwelt in Alqualondë were wickedly slain." Only, it spiralled out of control, became rather personal, turning into…this. Trust me, you don't want to know.