New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
Maedhros on acclimating to Himring after life in Tirion.
The acclimation should have been more difficult: from Tirion to Himring in fewer years than--once upon a time--it had taken my father to complete a commission. Stepping onto the balcony in the morning, where once was a balmy breeze (in Tirion), I am slapped across the face with a whiplash wind. So cold it burns.
It should have been difficult, leaning upon the railing with my hips, my skin already frozen fast to the steel.
But with time, I grow numb to all feeling. Happiness and love. Sadness, grief. Pain.
It should have been difficult.
It was not.
Today's word:
acclimate uh-KLY-mit; AK-luh-mayt, transitive and intransitive verb:
To accustom or become accustomed to a new climate, environment, or situation.
Acclimate is from French acclimater, from a-, "to" (from Latin ad-) + climat, "climate," from Late Latin clima, climat-, from Greek klima, "inclination; the supposed slope of the earth toward the pole; region; clime," from klinein, "to lean."