An eye in a blue face by Himring
Fanwork Notes
Written for the prompt words daisy, riddle, sunlit, lawns during insta-drabbling on the occasion of the Site Reopening Ribbon-Cutting Party.
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Summary:
Arien looks down on Middle-earth and, thanks to Yavanna, she sees...
Can you guess?
(Gollum once guessed it long ago.)
Major Characters: Arien, Yavanna
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges:
Rating: General
Warnings:
This fanwork belongs to the series
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 100 Posted on 25 April 2021 Updated on 25 April 2021 This fanwork is complete.
An eye in a blue face
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‘I am not tired of going to and fro above the earth!’ said Arien.
‘But?’ asked Yavanna.
‘Sometimes I wish I could see a face from those low places look back at me. But all turn their eyes away. I understand. They do not wish to be blinded…’
‘Something can be done about that,’ said Yavanna.
‘I am simply too bright!’
‘Come next spring, look down. You will see.’
Arien could not fathom her riddling words, until she looked down out of her high place—and on sunlit lawns saw the faces of a thousand daisies nodding up at her.
Chapter End Notes
Inspired by Bilbo's riddle in The Hobbit, which goes:
An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place Not in high place."
100 words in MS Word
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