"The Small and Secret Things"--6 through 10

[dawn_felagund]

The Small and Secret Things is my daily-drabble project on SWG. Because I really should have these things saved somewhere other than SWG (as, indeed, I preach to SWG members about their own work), then I am putting them up here as well. Hopefully, every few days, I'll be able to catch up and post a few more.

Nerdanel remembers life before the

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[oloriel]

Oh, lovely! I wish I could say something more intelligent, but this time I have a good excuse, being tired and slightly sick and in desperate need of a shower and sleep after five days of LARP, so I'll leave it at that.

But I have to say that I'm delighted that you, too, think that Rochallor might be gifted to Fingolfin by Maedhros - I was just working that idea into the Plotbunny That Crawled Out Of Angband a week or two ago! Hah, great minds! Or something. ^__^

[dawn_felagund]

Oooh, that sounds intriguing! I'm not even sure if this is an idea I'll ever use in the Felakverse for my "normal stories" (haha), but it seemed a cool idea to play with in a few hundred words. And I suppose, connecting the canon dots, it is fully possible.

And thank you for reading! :)

[rhapsody11]

I remember Noliel's beautiful piece and this is a great work Dawn! When I read it I felt that you so beaitifully captured something that somehow feels overlooked: the marring of Nerdanel. Not of her folk and such, no of *her*.

I really really liked the Gift Horse, it is again a great work where you weave in so many details and it reminds me that I probably should read more Fingolfin material. He was a brother, loyal to Fëanor, so forgiving towards Maedhros when their people were reunited, in a way both strong sons of Finwe were keepers of hope, I think you capture that so well in this bit:
I waited in the days following our exile (our first exile) for Atar to return the mare to Nolofinwë. He did not. I waited too for a messenger bearing back the stone Atar had given Nolofinwë.

But none came.

This says so much in a way as if both brothers knew all should be well. That is a theme that shines through this ficlet somehow and it feels great to read that Maedhros continues to do what his father deemed worthy and rightfully to do. I am

[dawn_felagund]

When I read it I felt that you so beaitifully captured something that somehow feels overlooked: the marring of Nerdanel. Not of her folk and such, no of *her*.

I agree, and a huge peeve of mine are the stories that make her out to be some sort of disloyal wench. Argh! The woman was amazing and strong; I believe that she is much to credit for tempering her sons, for helping to turn their energy from destruction and into positive directions. For example, the allegiance between the Noldor partly forged by Maedhros; the saving of Elrond and Elros by Maglor ... I see Nerdanel in those acts. And they changed the fate of Middle-earth.

But what a loss she suffered: her husband and seven children, in a "Blessed Realm" supposedly free of grief. I look at how poorly characters like Finwe and Feanor reacted to their own grief, and Nerdanel suffered so much worse. Yet she kept her bearing.

*fangirls* ;)

This says so much in a way as if both brothers knew all should be well. That is a theme that shines through this ficlet somehow and it feels