Elen síla lumenn' omentielvo!

[vulgarweed]

Beleriand, before the rising of the Sun and Moon:And in the forest, an uneasy place in the best of times, Iaun was brought up short by a sound. Creeping slowly as he had long known how to do - yet hindered by the sinews of shoulder and thigh that no longer flexed as seamlessly as they once had - Iaun crept forward beneath the cover of the great

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[mundungus42]

OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME!!!

Your Silmarillion pastiches are always brilliant (no pun intended), but this one has so much that's excellent going on in a realtively small number of words, and it's fabulous. I particularly dig "Iuan" as an Elvish name, and imagining him as an elf with a walking stick... SO MUCH SQUEE!

[vulgarweed]

Thank you so very much! I did so look forward to writing their very first meeting - which would be under very different circumstances indeed. But I certainly wanted it to have mythic resonance.

[luzula]

My favorite bit of this is the last line, both the way it mimics Sherlock Holmes canon and the way it makes me curious about what he was doing in Angband (fighting some sort of war, presumably).

I've written several crossovers of this type, where you take the characters from one canon and put them in another world, and it's so much fun to play with. What would this be, in terms of that? Etc.

[vulgarweed]

Thank you so much! I wavered on whether to do "Angband or Utumno?" instead. But I actually wanted to hark back to ACD directly at least once, and that line had the perfect simplicity

[luzula]

I would call this a fusion, since you're actually reworking the characters from one canon and making them native to the other canon. You're fusing the two canons together and making them one, and then it doesn't matter all that much if characters from both canons are present or not. But definitions vary, obviously. : )

[mildred_bobbin]

Oh gorgeous and clever!