The Small and Secret Things by Lferion

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Many thanks to Runa and Morgynleri for encouragement and sanity checking.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

"[Yavanna] is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind, from the trees like towers in forests long ago to the moss upon stones or the small and secret things in the mould." ~ Valaquenta

Major Characters: Yavanna

Major Relationships:

Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Poetry

Challenges: Love Actually, New Year's Resolution

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 110
Posted on 19 January 2020 Updated on 19 January 2020

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The Small and Secret Things

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Oh there is life in leaves that fall,
In frost-rimed feathers, frozen stones,
In time-burnt buds and trampled turves
In motes minute and passing strange —

Some at home in Ulmo’s realm,
Others deep in Aulë’s earth,
And high in Manwë’s moving air:
Iron snails and tardigrades,
Oomycetes and rotifers and mites

And O their Lady loves them, large and small
In solitaire and aggregate, rooted, restless, drifting free
All her Working, heart and hand, shaped to multiply
And make no barren place but gardens fair and wild
Be they ice or fire, drowned or drouth, dark or ever-bright
Born in the circles of the world: Olvar, kelvar, of Eá.

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