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

[someplacetobe]

The last line struck me because it is a truth that you know won't change, no matter how you try. But what whacked its way into my mind?

This is Glorfindel and his dad. He always seemed a standalone character but here you've given him a father. This is something you've given me when I read --- Elves aren't alone, despite how they seem.

[clodia_metelli]

I'm really glad! I wonder if this is partly a matter of LOTR vs. Silm perspective? The Elves of Silm aren't really as mystical and unknowable as those of LOTR, because they aren't seen from a Hobbit's perspective - if you start off from Silm, as I do, then it's natural to take them as people first and Elves (with all that connotes) second. But I don't know if your perspective is the LOTR one, so that might just be idle speculation.

[someplacetobe]

No, the Elves of Silm. aren't but, too, I've been reading The Hobbit lately and I wonder if that might be influencing how I perceive Elves at the moment.