Downfall by Lferion

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Fanwork Notes

Written for Back to Middle Earth Month 2021 day 3, 'Water', and the SWG January 2017 Taboo Bingo, prompt 'Consequences' for the January 2023 Jubilee challenge.

On AO3 here.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Downfall of a land o'erburdened by travail - a sonnet.

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Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Poetry

Challenges: International Fanworks Day, Jubilee, Taboo

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 111
Posted on 16 February 2023 Updated on 16 February 2023

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Downfall

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Water runs in tears of rain, once frozen
Now storm-released as snow, as sleet, as hail
Waves, wind-whipped, do bring destruction, chosen
Downfall of land o'erburdened by travail
Where fire also feeds, burns hot and fierce
Consuming rock and stronghold, foe and friend
And air itself in twists sends trees to pierce
Through walls, tears earth, and breaks what will not bend
This too is Song, these notes that ground unknits
The elements unite to Balrogs slay
Chill dragonfire, swift scour Angband's pits,
Unchain the thralls and Morgoth hold at bay.
    What balance might be found, what green might grow
    'Neath restless waves, that o'er those lands now flow?


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