O, Cousin Mine by sallysavestheday

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Fanwork Notes

Written for the October 2023 Experimental challenge, using the prompts first person plural point of view and characters are unnamed.

Tolkien shows and tells us a great deal about what Elves think of Orcs. What might Orcs think of Elves, if given a quiet space to speak?

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Orcs reflect on Elves.

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Challenges: Experimental

Rating: General

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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 243
Posted on 22 October 2023 Updated on 22 October 2023

This fanwork is a work in progress.

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O, Cousin Mine

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Really powerful! It's interesting seeing how your style adapts to the pov, too. It felt fresh and very immediate, but still gorgeous as ever. 

Two of my favourite lines:

"One tangle of limbs is not unlike another: you in your soft beds, we in our coiled heaps, all breathing."

"The pulse that drives you is our drums in the deep; our hollow hearts, still beating."

This whole piece has a very poetic structure. Thank you!

This is so powerful, and moving - and beautiful. 'What remains of you in us still sings' - indeed, but it seems to me that you've given the orcs their own song, too. I loved reading this - thank you.