Drabbles: The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales by Zdenka

Violets

Lalwen receives a poem. (Elemmírë/Lalwen)

(A haiku always feels a little insubstantial to me, at least when I write them, so I wrote a drabble with a haiku in it.)

There is a secluded and shady part of the palace gardens where a little stream winds among the grass, lined with moss and violets. It is a pleasant place to spend the heat of Laurelin’s hours. If the King’s daughter returns one day with muddy feet and carrying her shoes, no one need think anything of it.

And later, there is a note:

Let the violets
not tell how many kisses
they saw by the stream.

No signature, but she hardly needs one to know the author. Lalwendë smiles and presses the paper fervently to her lips, thinking of Elemmírë.

Chapter End Notes

Written for the Silmarillion Writers' Guild/Silmladylove Tolkien Femslash Week Bingo, for the prompts:

Formats and Genres: True Drabble (I12)
Formats and Genres: Haiku (O41)
Story Elements: Violets (N19)