Warping Arda: Into the Woods

[clodia_metelli]

Title: Warping Arda: Into the Woods
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Erestor, OC, Dior, Beren, Lúthien, Celeborn, Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, Daeron (overheard).
Rating: K+
Warnings: A nasty flashback, a touch of unpleasant imagery.
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: Nine drabbles written for tolkien_weekly,

Comments

[gogollescent]

WHAT LIES YOU TELL. These are lovely, the lovelier because my eyeballs are on sideways right now!

[clodia_metelli]

Ah, but obscurely and impenetrably so? Anyway, thank you! I, uh, hope you fix your eyeballs soon? Didn't I recommend Thucydides last time this happened?

[gogollescent]

Not really no. Maybe a couple but those because I didn't get through the Silm last time I opened it and the time before that was a long long time ago.

You did. But my copy of the Peloponnesian War got lost in the move, and now what? Wikipedia will not do, sir, it simply will not do!

[clodia_metelli]

Oh good. Of course most people not in the fandom have *precisely* that experience with the Silm, so. :'D

And, ahaha, NO problem. Would you like the translation by Hobbes? One of my more ponderous friends will insist on quoting from it, this may be the source of a couple of my sharper prejudices against good-old-days male academics; anyway, if anything would put you to sleep... Or there's a slightly more modern version here.

*snerk*

[hrymfaxe]

I really enjoyed reading these! Thank you for sharing. :D

[clodia_metelli]

That's wonderful to hear! Thank you for reading. ^^

[perelleth]

Loved these, I had not seen them before, thank you for pointing. Each has its own detail, but two got to me most: News from aborad, how Celeborn's half-condescending smile freezes on his face, and Holly, and Meinna's insight about the Nodor.

And of course loved that Bombadil made a flute for Daeron. So oblique, yet it is all there.
Drabbles are an art when they condense so many layers.

Nonono, thank YOU

[clodia_metelli]

As ever, thank you for reading: as ever, I'm glad you liked them: thanks so much for dropping by! (I do repeat myself a lot, don't I?) I love how you pick the crucial details out of the drabbles I thought were particularly obscure; it is so reassuring! I hadn't tried my hand at drabbling before this, so... well. :D *bounce*

I'll probably archive these at SoA and elsewhere in the new year, just to show I'm still alive. ^^

[wormwood_7]

I enjoyed reading your drabbles again in this sequence. They really reflect the melancholy beauty of the Silmarillion.

[clodia_metelli]

That's really very good to hear. Thank you for reading all over again! ^^

[someplacetobe]

What I've been really liking as I read is how vividly you describe - sunset-bloodied and sulphurous yellow - and the words being used a though they belonged, which they do, - oiolairë, lairelossë, yavannamirë, nessamelda and vardarianna - alongside words that describe them. It brings everything to life for me that much more vividly and I can easily lose myself within the stories with whatever's happening within them. It's so full and natural, I feel.

[clodia_metelli]

Thank you, that's really wonderful to hear! One of the things I've been working on via fanfic is getting the right balance between description, plot and dialogue -- I'm sure I'm not there yet, but it's so reassuring to hear the description is vivid, since I had a bad tendency to go rather light on that in the past. ^^

[someplacetobe]

getting the right balance between description, plot and dialogue -- I'm sure I'm not there yet
You do this very well and if you're not there yet, you must be getting close!

[clodia_metelli]

XD Thanks so much!