Drabbles: The Silmarillion, part 2 by Zdenka

Pray, Love, Remember

Nellas seeks Nienor and finds her too late. (Nellas/Nienor. Canonical character death.)

Only a humble grey stone, carved with her name. Nellas traced the linear shape of the runes: NIENOR NÍNIEL. But what use would it be to build her a tomb of marble? She was not there. The river had taken her, and she was lost. Lost too was their joy among the leaves of Doriath in the spring, their love brief and bright as a comet.

Nellas stood apart in silence while Mablung and the others sang their lament. But before she departed, she gathered wildflowers such as Nienor had most loved and scattered them into Teiglin’s cold rushing waters.

Chapter End Notes

Written for Tolkien Femslash Week Bingo, for the prompts:

Four Words: humble, linear, comet, marble (I16)
Language of Flowers: Rosemary: Remembrance (B7)

Title from Ophelia's speech in Hamlet.