Pinching Time by Anérea

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Fanwork Notes

A sketch created for the Gnome Tome Challenge, inspired by the prompt "The Valar cannot undo history without undoing Ea".

(And which serendipitously could be a portrait of elennalore's AU version of Varda and the destruction of the Two Lamps: Radiance—also written for a Gnome Tome challenge prompt: 'any one of the Valar might have taken the paths of Melkor and become like him: one was enough''. So I've gifted this her.)

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...

Major Characters: Valar, Varda

Major Relationships:

Genre: General

Challenges: Gnome Tome

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 32
Posted on 1 November 2021 Updated on 3 November 2021

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Pinching Time

This prompt immediately made me wonder what "undoing Eä" would actually look like, with images of stars and nebulae swirling through my mind's eye, before I wondered what the quote was actually referencing. After reading the relevant section in NoME I decided my initial imagery would be far more fun to work with. And then I saw the mind-blowingly beautiful Pillars of Creation (Varda's hand) at the centre of the Eagle Nebula, which Varda said she was particularly proud of and that she'd gladly pose for me...

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I imagined Varda sneaking off into the universe to see what happened if she pinched some Time—just a teeny-weeny-tiny bit...

(Image Source: www.deviantart.com/anerea/art/Pinching-Time-896654559)

Chapter End Notes

The photograph of the Eagle Nebula is courtesy of NoirLab. I have fiddled it a bit to fit my idea so you can view the full original image at noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-04086

But I really recommend popping over to NASA where you can watch an awe-inspiring 30 second video zooming into the aptly named Pillars of Creation at the centre of this nebula (Varda's hand), which is an active star-forming region hiding newborn stars (ironically): www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-16-the-eagle-nebula

Although I cognitively know that I am a really, really small part of an indescribably big thing, this made me really feel it. Well, a teeny-weeny-tiny bit...

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Oh, that's such a cool interpretation of this concept!

(And Pillars of Creation are an excellent choice of Nebula for this pic, especially in this context! I  mean, they're always a great choice for nebulae but using them in a piece for undoing is peak performance. Okay, I'll leave you alone with my Astrophysics humour now XD)