The Fissure by Dawn Felagund

Fanwork Notes

This story was written for the third round of the Hungarian Tolkien Society's Mailing Competition. The prompt was as follows:

Dwarves are perhaps the most secretive race in Middle-earth – they are even unwilling to share their “true names” with their closest friends from other races, so no wonder we do not know much about their culture either. In this task, you will have to fill in this gap in our knowledge: write a short text between 250 and 700 words about a ceremony, tradition, or custom that could have belonged to one of the Dwarven settlements below. Whichever time and place you choose, come up with a tradition that could not be applied to Dwarves in general, but fits this specific clan or subgroup of Dwarves somehow as it originates from their own history, etc. The text could be of any style: a journal entry of a member of the chosen people or a trusted outsider who, for the first time, is given the honour of participating in one of this clan’s ceremonies, but it could also be an excerpt from a chronicle on the city’s traditions, a historical analysis of how the custom came to be, what its origin was, and why it is still important to the people. No matter what approach you choose, give it a context inside of the story: write from the point of view of an inhabitant of Middle-earth.

Fanwork Information

Summary: Maeglin witnesses a coming-of-age ceremony among the Dwarves of Belegost. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition. Major Characters: Dwarves, Eöl, Maeglin Major Relationships: Genre: General Challenges: Rating: Teens Warnings: Mature Themes
Chapters: 1	Word Count: 710
Posted on 19 April 2024	Updated on 19 April 2024
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