Fly Like An Eagle by Flora-lass

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Fanwork Notes

Written for the Turgon's Rock Opera Challenge, for the song prompt 'Fly Like An Eagle' by the Steve Miller Band.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Fingon rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim.

Major Characters: Fingon

Major Relationships:

Genre: Poetry

Challenges: Turgon's Rock Opera

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Creator Chooses Not to Warn
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 277
Posted on 8 October 2023 Updated on 8 October 2023

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Fly Like An Eagle

Read Fly Like An Eagle

I hear you. 

You, yet not you - so tormented and broken that I can hardly bear it.

But it can only be you. 

After all these long ages, 

With the lies and the oath and the burning between us,

I know you still.

 

So I climb these hateful heights

As we sing together in our souls

Though our voices are spent and my harp long since discarded.

And as I see you, and the source of your anguish,

My eyes overflow and I can go no further

For there is nowhere to go, unless I grow wings.

 

How have we come to this?

That you should beg me to slay you

When I would not harm one hair of your radiant head

And only long to soothe your pain.

But I must shoot away the pain instead.

 

'O King to whom all birds are dear, 

speed now this feathered shaft!'

I cry out, as my heart breaks…

But my hand is stayed, and I am borne up to you!

As yet I know not how.

 

Forgive me that I do not heed your pleas

As I forgive your deeds (or what you did not do).

You will live, if it kills me.

Morgoth's device has defeated me

But he will not defeat us.

I dash away the blinding tears, and pray to hurt you cleanly

If such a thing can be.

 

You fall into my arms, and we fly away.

Your blood spills over me

And its stain will never fade, not while your pain remains.

But I have you safe.

Your flame still burns, and so the ice may melt. 

And time will heal.

 

(HelenFloraW)

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This is wonderful! I love how you incorporated Fingon's prayer to Manwe into the poem, and I particularly like these two lines, for the sound of them and the image:

So I climb these hateful heights

As we sing together in our souls

Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I'm very flattered that you think Fingon could actually have written it - but I'm also conscious that he doesn't acknowledge Thorondor! I'm sure he would have done so eventually - but at the time I think he may just have been aware of a great force which gave him the power of flight (and it was easier to write that way). :)