' A Swift Spring' -- for Natural Disasters: Hurricane
Just one more to go after this. Hopefully I won't fall so drastically behind on the current challenge.
Title: A Swift Spring
Author: Huinárë
Characters/Pairing: Melkor, Eönwë, Ossë, Salmar
Rating: G
Warnings: Endnote! Quite optional, but of esoteric interest.
Book/Source: The Silmarillion (and a shout-out to The Book of Lost Tales)
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Tolkien. No profit reaped by myself, aside from a wealth of intellectual giddiness.
Summary: Of the razing of Utumno and the finding of Melkor. Answering the prompt “Hurricane.”
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Melkor navigates seesawing corridors, speaking to calm the seismic chaos. He senses Utumno’s perimeters crumbling, yet he can maintain the deep places.
Manwë and Ulmo merge forces. Embracing into a gale, Eönwë and Ossë storm the fortress, bringing down arches, halls; Kosomot, intercepting them, is quenched.
A swift spring, Salmar darts into the deepest pits. Melkor greets him with tormenting strikes, yet his brief distraction is sufficient; Aulë’s hold tightens: the mountain overhead is altogether removed in eruption and quake.
Aloft, a shaft opens. Light enters, a lance, and Melkor grimaces in pain. Varda stands above. Tulkas beside her laughs.
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Endnote: Salmar, a Maia of Ulmo who only exists in one sentence of the Silmarillion, descends from a discarded minor Vala Tolkien referred to sometimes as Noldorin or Lirillo. The Book of Lost Tales mentions this figure as having confronted Melkor along with Tulkas, though not during the War of the Powers. Long have I sought to use some germ of this idea in my fanon, though my Salmar, a Maia who is more brains than brawn, could hardly be expected to withstand Melkor for an instant. I was tickled that, watching the siege of Utumno unfold via these drabbles, I was able to appease this whim.
Title: A Swift Spring
Author: Huinárë
Characters/Pairing: Melkor, Eönwë, Ossë, Salmar
Rating: G
Warnings: Endnote! Quite optional, but of esoteric interest.
Book/Source: The Silmarillion (and a shout-out to The Book of Lost Tales)
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Tolkien. No profit reaped by myself, aside from a wealth of intellectual giddiness.
Summary: Of the razing of Utumno and the finding of Melkor. Answering the prompt “Hurricane.”
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Melkor navigates seesawing corridors, speaking to calm the seismic chaos. He senses Utumno’s perimeters crumbling, yet he can maintain the deep places.
Manwë and Ulmo merge forces. Embracing into a gale, Eönwë and Ossë storm the fortress, bringing down arches, halls; Kosomot, intercepting them, is quenched.
A swift spring, Salmar darts into the deepest pits. Melkor greets him with tormenting strikes, yet his brief distraction is sufficient; Aulë’s hold tightens: the mountain overhead is altogether removed in eruption and quake.
Aloft, a shaft opens. Light enters, a lance, and Melkor grimaces in pain. Varda stands above. Tulkas beside her laughs.
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Endnote: Salmar, a Maia of Ulmo who only exists in one sentence of the Silmarillion, descends from a discarded minor Vala Tolkien referred to sometimes as Noldorin or Lirillo. The Book of Lost Tales mentions this figure as having confronted Melkor along with Tulkas, though not during the War of the Powers. Long have I sought to use some germ of this idea in my fanon, though my Salmar, a Maia who is more brains than brawn, could hardly be expected to withstand Melkor for an instant. I was tickled that, watching the siege of Utumno unfold via these drabbles, I was able to appease this whim.