In the Bleak Midwinter by Maggie Honeybite

Fanwork Notes

Thanks to Manon for the beta job, to AC for help with research, and to Circe for motivating me to finally get this thing written. Thanks also to Tehta for her editing help.

Notes:  meldir – friend (male)
      lirimaer – lovely one

On Elves and their resistance to the cold:  Although it is generally accepted that Elves handle cold quite well (Legolas on Caradhras, for instance), the biting chill was an essential element of this story, and one I could not simply dispense with.  Tolkien does say, in "Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin" (Unfinished Tales), that "Tuor and Voronwë were tormented by the cold" (p. 50 in my edition).  Although Tuor and Voronwë *did* have the Fell Winter to contend with, and not just any cold day, and although "In the Bleak Midwinter" is set in the Second Age, and not the First, I did not think I'd be straying too far from canon if I made Elrond suffer from the effects of the cold weather.