New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
In Valinor, after both their returns from Mandos, Olwe's son, Elulindo, addresses his nephew Finrod, who lost a song battle against Sauron when Sauron reminded him of the First Kinslaying (in which Elulindo died), and says to him: Let us move on from those memories.
A tanka written for a tolkienshortfanworks challenge.
Warning for allusion to (temporary) canonical character death.
I will not carry
the weight of blood-stained sea foam
into a new age.
Pitch laughter against long grief—
let no Wolf Lord silence you!
The other tolkienshortfanworks prompt (beside the poetic form of the tanka) was: sound versus silence.