Utumno by Himring

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Fanwork Notes

For the Tengwar prompt for the tengwar essë nuquerna and silmë nuquerna (name reversed; starlight reversed).

Prompt: tengwa esse nuquerna, embedded in graphic of blank face like a question mark
essë nuquerna (name reversed)

 

Prompt: silmë nuquerna (starlight reversed), embedded in graphic of solar eclipse
silmë nuquerna (starlight reversed)

This poem isn't graphic or detailed and indeed too short to be so. Nevertheless the subject is what Morgoth did to those captives and that should be its own warning.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

One of the earliest elven captives in Utumno, one of the Quendi finds speech slipping away.

Major Characters: Original Character(s)

Major Relationships:

Genre: Poetry

Challenges: Tengwar

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 20
Posted on 29 April 2024 Updated on 1 May 2024

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Utumno

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in the depths
starlight unravels
ripped from the gut

no name
self reversed

only 
     the icy edge of loss
                               remains

Chapter End Notes

Others have occasionally suggested that Morgoth's earliest attempts to achieve orcs failed because the damage he inflicted was too fundamental. I think this may be the case here.

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This was well formed. I always admire poets and their ability to shape words carefully and architecturally on the page, and this allowed a lot of meaning to pour forth from the white space as well as the words themselves.