(Of What Might Be, Or Should Be) by
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Can be read on its own, but sort of follows from "In Light Of Dreams" (although it occurs about 100 years before) as an explanation of where Fraiwen’s dream came from. (Hers will not have been the first such dream in her family.)
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circa FA50, Lórien, Aman
A half-baked pseudo-philosophical conversation between Ulmo and Irmo on Life, the Universe, and the reliability of dreams as a form of Unbiased Communication in aiding the Secondborn Children of Eru.Major Characters: Lórien, Ulmo, Valar
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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1, 526 Posted on 31 December 2021 Updated on 31 December 2021 This fanwork is complete.
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Inspired by Zhie's colourful Master of Dreams, which made me think of different options and choices...
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Writing the Valar feels much like attempting to represent pandimensional spaces in a two dimensional drawing. I imagine that however they actually communicate (whether it’s via words like “Greetings, how farest thou?” or colours or thrumming the threads of the space-time continuum) it would feel as normal to them as “Hi, how’re you doing?” feels to us. So this is my dimensionally-challenged approximation of these somewhat unfathomable beings in conversation.
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