Warping Arda: Good as New

[clodia_metelli]

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.

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Comments

[shadowbrides]

This is nice! It took me a while to catch onto the fact that this was about Glorfindel ( because apparently tags are there to be ignored in my universe). Oddly enough, I never envisioned Glorfindel as having a father. It's logical for him to have one of course, I suppose he's just a big, standalone sort of character - it's hard to imagine him having family at all, much less parents.

[clodia_metelli]

Thanks! I tend to skim tags too, it's easily done. Glorfindel does lack the elaborate family trees of so many of Tolkien's characters - one aspect of his uncertain place in the canon, I guess.

[clodia_metelli]

Thanks! I'm very glad you like it!

[wormwood_7]

That's lovely :) The past is indeed here to stay.

[clodia_metelli]

Thanks! Elves must be particularly burdened by their past, I think - they have so much more of it.

Too much past or too little real future

[auroramama]

Yes. I had thought about Arwen's relationship to Aragorn -- first cousin 63 times removed, says the Tolkien Gateway -- in terms of her being the Older Female. But I hadn't considered how different the span of their happiness must have seemed to her. Aragorn had the second half of his long-for-a-Man life with her. But she was over two thousand years old when they met, and they were together a century and change. Of course it must have seemed far too soon to her, as if she were still unpacking from their honeymoon.

"Dear friend, have you seen the smaller ladle?"

"No, my love. Try looking in the big grey box after I've given my life back to the One."

Re: Too much past or too little real future

[clodia_metelli]

//"Dear friend, have you seen the smaller ladle?"

"No, my love. Try looking in the big grey box after I've given my life back to the One."//

*snork* That has the potential for some very funny culture clash fic. (I'm sure someone's written it, but I don't read enough in the post-Ring War to know.)

[engarian]

I remember when you wrote this for me - how much I loved it then, and how much I still love it today. Thanks for posting this, Clodia. It was wonderful to revisit it again and to have the chance to say "thank you" again as well.

- Erulisse (one L)

[clodia_metelli]

Very much my pleasure! I am glad you still like this drabble, and thanks again for the prompt!

[lindahoyland]

A very thought provoking drabble.

[clodia_metelli]

Thank you, I'm very glad you found it so!