Queen of Fire and Water by Himring
Fanwork Notes
For the Kings & Queens challenge, the queen being Tar-Miriel.
This was originally an idea I had for the last SWG crossover challenge. It alludes to motifs from The Rings of Power, but embeds them in a book-canonical setting. (I'm not tagging it as crossover now so as not to maybe disappoint RoP fans.)
Warnings: canon-typical background for the last days of Numenor; allusion to a specific person burned by Sauron in the Temple fire.
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Summary:
Tar-Miriel, still plagued by foresight when nothing can be prevented anymore.
Major Characters: Tar-Míriel
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges: Kings & Queens
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 101 Posted on 7 September 2024 Updated on 7 September 2024 This fanwork is complete.
Queen of Fire and Water
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Miriel woke from another dream in which a snowstorm of summer blossom transmuted into a deadly avalanche of water.
Comes rather late, she murmured.
Nimloth had burned in the fire, the fire that had taken her last trusted confidante.
She pushed herself up. Flames seemed to lick the wall hanging, delicately woven by many hands. She had stared too long into Sauron’s fire and could seem to see little else than flames now, awake. She might as well be blind.
Tiles cracked under her feet. Had the endless storm hanging above them finally broken? Was it time to run yet?
Chapter End Notes
I have also incorporated a prompt from Tolkien100 here: summer storms.
There is an allusion to my story The Crane and the Crow here, but I assumed it could be understood by the reader without knowing the story.
Nimloth is the name of the White Tree of Numenor.
100 words in MS Word.
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