The Daily Drabble--x2!

[dawn_felagund]

Obviously, I missed the daily drabble yesterday. I was a busy girl, finishing AMC and doing beta-stuff (and some work too...really!) and then utterly exhausted for my last two hours at work. So I thought it better to wait until today and do the words some justice

Comments

[ann_arien]

Mmmm... beautiful work, well done. I'm reading it after having finished the first chapter of AMC (which I have gone back to, BTW) and the mood is very much the same, as the 1st chapter of AMC has Miatimo in the library.

You've comprised many things in just a handful of words: Feanaro's shunning of the "destiny" idea (he and I see eye to eye on this one), expressed by this wonderful expression: as though he’d been created with thought of his later works in the shape of his hands.; Maitimo's natural talent of relating with people (which I also believe he possesses, and it's not just Felak!verse) and his initial attempts to follow his father's scholarly pursuits, if not his interests in the material part of is craft. And you've done a great job at outlining the relationship between then, plus the more realistic view that Maitimo has of pretty much everything.

I'll do the drabbles tomorrow. Now I'm a little tipsy from an experiment with red wine, vanilla and cinnamon. ;) The words are OK, except for one thing... "métier"... Merde! (That's crap in French). I can speak French pretty well but Mandos... I HATE IT! So I'll probably be using an equivalent of the word when my mind is sober enough to think of a drabble or two.

[dawn_felagund]

I also don't like the notion of destiny, but it seems to exist to some extent in Tolkienverse, since Namo can see the results of actions before they happen. Of course, we never know how reliable he is with this. Mehtinks we need an empirical study. ;)

Still, I don't see Feanaro as the type who--even in a world where there is decent proof of destiny--would accept such a notion. He's so proactive and always shaping things...I don't think he'd want to believe that he is walking into a future that has already been made for him.

I agree with you that the canon certainly seems to imply Maedhros' skill in diplomatic matters. The "Union of Maedhros" is certainly one accomplishment. (Personally, I prefer a different "Union of Maedhros" *pervy fangurl cackle*)

I look forward to reading your drabbles! I never had French but rather Spanish (although I am "merde" at it...or "mierda," in Spanish :^P). So the other day's "paterfamilias" was more my speed, although I had trouble fitting that word into my notion of Silmfic.

Red wine, cinnamon, and vanilla sounds good...although right now, it'd probably put me to sleep!

[ann_arien]

Still, I don't see Feanaro as the type who--even in a world where there is decent proof of destiny--would accept such a notion. He's so proactive and always shaping things...I don't think he'd want to believe that he is walking into a future that has already been made for him.

I feel exactly the same way about him. And almost everything he says in the Silm points to this. Of course, the fact that you and I think the same way makes us even more inclined to think of him as such.

Lol, the challenge words are really weird, sometimes, and hard to fit in a Slimfic drabble, especially since I want all of mine to be with and/or about Feany, but I will try to make the most of it.