B2MEM Day Twenty-six, Pride: There Hammer on the Anvil Smote

[azalaisdep]

Arrrgh, I am so behind...

Today's Challenge:
"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."
--Alexander Pope

How would a character not allowed to express his or her thoughts, creativity, or opinion act out?

There Hammer on the Anvil Smote

His

Comments

[engarian]

Love it, love it, love it! I'm so glad you had a post where both of them could go to Aule. How perfect! Now Gimli's life dreams, both spoken and unspoken, will be complete. You rock!

- Erulisse (one L)

[azalaisdep]

The Let Gimli Meet Aule contingent was getting so vocal that I thought it was the least I could do ;-) and I was a bit stuck for anything else to do with the prompt! Need to catch up now - while getting behind was entirely due to overmuch RL, it does have the sneaky advantage that I can see a few prompts at once and plan a little better...

[engarian]

I think it was important to have Gimli meet Aule. But I also think it was equally important for Aule to meet Gimli. He has been separated from his creation for Ages, and to have one of them come back to his hearth must be an emotional high point for him, even if he is Vala and supposedly above such things :-)

- Erulisse (one L)
who has a soft spot for Lord Aule since he is also a maker.

[curiouswombat]

But I also think it was equally important for Aule to meet Gimli.

Me too - I am certain that he would want to almost desperately.

[espresso_addict]

Ooooh, she squeals incoherently, yes! I do keep wishing you were writing ficlets at the length dolamrothdame's been treating us to :)

A wave of heat, metal’s tangy smell, the hammer’s pulse through his boot-soles...

I particularly like this. You've got the senses going but in a way that feels entirely natural. Which I know is not as easy as it looks.

[azalaisdep]

I do keep wishing you were writing ficlets at the length dolamrothdame's been treating us to :)

But then I'd still be on Day One!

I'm glad you like the heat/smell/pounding of metal bit. I wanted to get it across, but without any of the more negative language like "reek of metal" which I usually use when having Legolas describe the sights and sounds of the forge, and in very few words, so it had to be shorthand.

[curiouswombat]

Yay! He made it!

[azalaisdep]

Squeezed under the wire - not many prompts to go now!