Warping Arda: Good as New
Title: Warping Arda: Good as New
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Glorfindel, Glorfindel's father.
Rating: PG
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: One drabble written for engarian months ago, recently rediscovered in a dusty file.
Into the Woods | In Memoriam | Winter into Spring | Golden Flowers | Spectrum | Once Upon a Twilit Time | Eilinel | Adrift in the Ages | A Tangled Web |
Good as New
Later, many ages later, he held again the stone he’d etched with golden flowers so long ago. It was marred now: there were still red jewels and white ones glittering, but few of them had come from that beach at Alqualondë. He turned it over carefully in his hands. Here was one: the gleam was unmistakable. Someone had repaired the flowers with a metal that was not silver, for all its silver sheen.
“These scratches...” he said. “I could smooth -”
“No.”
“It could be good as new.”
His son shook his head. “You can’t smooth the past away,” he said.
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