"Sons of the King"

[dawn_felagund]

This series of short tales was inspired by the “Three Colours Trilogy” Challenge on the Henneth Annûn Story Archive. It looks at the three sons of Finwë following his murder and how each perceived his future and his duty to his family and his people. The colors and banners of each are based off the heraldry that Tolkien himself envisioned.

Comments

[arandil13]

I read this too! I don't know if you have a full time job, but if you do, you need to quit so you can write stories about Feanor all day long!!!!

I loved it!!!

I have one bit of concrit, if you can believe I stopped SQUEEING long enough to form a coherent thought. The bit where Feanor thinks "My father is dead" and then the next paragraph says "and his son before him." I got confused as to what he meant at first and had to read it a few times. Feanor's son dead before (prior to) Finwe? (I know this isn't the case). Feanor's son dead before (in front of) Feanor? It took me a while to figure out his son was standing before him.

No biggie, just one little thing that was weird for me.

Two parts I especially liked was the bit about "an arm that used to wield a hammer and make beautiful things that bends back now and uses all of its strength to hurl the fire at the white ships" and when Fingon (I believe it's Fingon) falls onto his knees in agony. It's so very poignant.

Like I said...Keep Writing! PLEASE! ...need...Feanor...fix....

[dawn_felagund]

Yes, I do have a full-time job, but--lucky for me--my full-time job is one that a monkey could do yet, for some reason, requires a college degree nonetheless. And so I come in, do my requisite half-hour or so of work, and then start writing or wasting my time in other usually-Tolkien-related ways.

This, though, was written at home, so no State funds were expended during this project :)

I was worried about that part too because I was kind of experimenting and didn't want a "Feanor said" and "Maedhros did" kind of format (this isn't even making sense to me, so don't worry if you're clueless too). The copy editor in me kept screaming "PROUNOUN REFERENCE!" as I was writing...obviously, I didn't listen. Anyway, I will revise the whole thing eventually. I wrote it in one evening and, truthfully, didn't even read it the whole way through once before putting it online. I felt, as someone on-list so aptly put it, that "my brain was leaking out my ears."

[tarion_anarore]

Wow! That was wonderful! Were the colors you had in mind the colors of the respective devices/banners?
I can't pick a favorite. All three are so good.

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

The colors I used are the colors I associate with each of the respective characters. Yes, they are part of their respective banners and heraldry, but I tried to bring them out in their environments as well: the fires at Losgar, the cold ice and sea at Araman, and the golden King's hall in Tirion.

These colors just seem to make sense to me for each Finwion: red for Feanor, blue for Fingolfin, and gold for Finarfin. In my mind, they are always dressed this way. In my stories, I try to mix it up a bit to keep from getting bored :)