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Title: One White Tree
Author: Dwimordene
Summary: Many the fruits, but only one white tree: there shall be no new world. The story of the Númenorean resistance.
Characters: Elendil and the Faithful; Pharazôn and the King’s Men; original characters.
Rating: T
Warnings: ‘Tis the season when Dwim writes genocidal revisionism again. I don’t have

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To paraphrase Louisa May Alcott, "Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Dwim writing class-conscious revisionist genocide." And I mean that, for serious. :D

This is just fabulous. What do I love about it? For one, how you manage to take the most epic and populous of narratives and compress them into one of fandom's most concise forms, as is your wont. The way you weave multiple strands together, including the tree prompt--roots, branches and stranglevines; slavery and exploitation of "slighter and darker" people; trade; political intrigue and philosophy (Azriphel puts me in mind of a young Emma Goldman, though, unlike Goldman, of course, she has some religion). Most of all I love the revisionist idea of a Numenor ultimately destroyed from within, by its competing factions' cruelty and anger, rather than from without, by vengeful gods, as Tolkien would have us believe.

The medium is also well suited to the message, and nicely-turned phrases abound: the ships, Great, white-winged creatures; bloodbaths are a dice throw in longer games; and an audacious, peasant-petty power.

That being said, how on earth did the conservative aristocratic faction manage to reinstate a feudal system after that?

I know, right? Short memories, lots of material wealth and the threat of violence, perhaps?

Anyway, just awesome. I know you're really busy, but don't be a stranger!

Edited to add: in the vein of life imitating art, here are some photos of ginormous monster waves pummeling European coastlines.