B2MEM 2011 Day Thirty-one: Stupidity and the Gods

[azalaisdep]

Today's Challenge:
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller. Write a story or poem or create artwork that illustrates this quotation.

Rather to my amazement, this one fits with the place for today's challenge as well - Valinor!  And for once no Kleenex required! This would come somewhere around the middle of the

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[engarian]

And my own Day 31 is in beta and will be posted tonight. I can't believe we both finished, Az! Congrats to you! This one was great and I loved finishing your month up with a smile :-)

- Erulisse (one L)

[azalaisdep]

And congrats to you too! I'm sorry I haven't read and commented on yours yet, but I have a huge backlog - that's on the To Do list after I've knocked these into some sort of order! And yes, I liked being able to finish up with a happy one :-)

[kaffy_r]

I am going to miss seeing these every day; I'd come to look forward to them, and I was never disappointed with what I read. Thank you so much for writing them.

[azalaisdep]

Thank you for the compliment - I had no idea you were reading! Now I have to shake them down into order and see what on earth we've ended up with...

[curiouswombat]

Hurrah! Well done Gimli and even more well done Azalais!

[azalaisdep]

I wanted to show Gimli as being all the things - sensitive, skilled, clever - that prejudiced Elves would assume no Dwarf was. And I also wanted to come up with a scenario where Legolas would just watch with a grin, knowing Gimli didn't need his help...

[aearwen2]

ROTFLMAO!!!

Bravo, Gimli!! And Brava to you too! This is delightful!

[azalaisdep]

Thank you!

[espresso_addict]

That's a lovely way to end. I do so like the slightly childish Greek gods model for the Valar :)

[azalaisdep]

It runs the risk of making them feel a bit Pratchett-y, but then I think they are more like Greek gods (or Pratchett's gods) than Eru-level divinities - they're powerful, but they have personalities, and flaws, and goodness knows (dragging the Elves off to Valinor, ahem), they make mistakes...

[azalaisdep]

I certainly don't think it was a given that it was A Good Thing. I'm not sure that the Sindar who stayed in M-e ended up any worse off than the Noldor who came back, frex...

And yes, I am definitely coming back to Tolkien fandom...

Yay and thrice yay!