A Brief Early History of Avant-Garde Textile Art by zopyrus

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This didn't quite manage to be a drabble, but it does contain exactly 144 words!

 

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Vairë the Weaver had several tapestry projects going at once, and Míriel Serindë disappeared from them all at the same time.

Major Characters: Míriel Serindë, Vairë

Major Relationships:

Genre: General

Challenges: 10th Birthday Celebration

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 259
Posted on 15 August 2015 Updated on 15 August 2015

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Vairë the Weaver had several tapestry projects going at once, and Míriel Serindë disappeared from them all at the same time.  Works such as “Notable Noldorin Grammar Police,” “A Brief History of Avant-Garde Textile Art,” and “King Finwë’s Personal Life” were put on immediate and sudden hold, followed by extreme revisions—and, in some cases, a reworking of the color scheme.

It was a disappointment; Vairë had liked her.  But Vairë’s chief purpose was to bear witness to the deeds of the Living, not the Dead, so she did her best to put Míriel out of her thoughts—that is, until the former Queen of the Noldor appeared, uninvited and unannounced, in her workshop.

 “Why are you so hard to find?” said Míriel, disapprovingly. “Your husband keeps trying to interest me in talk therapy, but you are the one I really wanted to see.”

Vairë smiled.


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I really like the idea of Miriel disappearing from the tapestries, owing to her being not-alive anymore (and wonder if Vairë would reconsider this stance on her tapestries once folk started dying left and right...what a lot of work to undo!).

And I love the drollness of something as intensely private as "King Finwë's Personal Life" being casually and literally titled in Vairë's work.