Comments | dawn_felagund: Fanpome: "Seven Falls"

dawn_felagund

Fanpome: "Seven Falls"

Feb 24, 2009 17:42

The following Silmarillion-inspired poem (fanpome?) was written for the quote of the month on the Silmarillion Writers' Guild: Melkor and Finwë battle in Formenos after the Darkening of Valinor.

The form is a sestina, which originated in the 12th-century with the French troubadours. The sestina uses six six-line stanzas plus a triad at the end. ( Read more... )

melkor, fanpome, poetry, finwë

Comments 6

mithluin February 25 2009, 02:54:43 UTC

*shivers*

Morgoth's point of view...that was brave of you. There is a foretaste of his battle with Fingolfin here. His bragging, his desire to see despair and death in Finwe's face...and the inevibility of his win all strikes the right note.

He has not learned fear yet; I suppose Ungoliant will teach it to him momentarily.

dawn_felagund February 27 2009, 15:10:59 UTC

You know, it never occurred to me that Morgoth's PoV is not usually done and, yes, definitely intimidating! :D I'm not fond of the saying that something "wrote itself," but this sestina nearly did so. It wouldn't have anything but Morgoth's PoV!

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I didn't notice the connection with Fingolfin. ._. I've always had in my mind that Finwe and Morgorth had a terrible fight in Feanor's house in Formenos where both fell many times but Morgoth one less. I wrote a ficlet series about this a couple of years ago, though there, Morgoth only falls five times. (Might have to revise that since I'm contradicting my own verse now! Well, I guess I'm just carrying on JRRT's great tradition of the same. ;)

Thank you for reading and for the comment! :D

frenchpony February 25 2009, 05:40:52 UTC

Very elegant! I'm impressed that you took on the sestina form; it requires even more careful planning than a sonnet, but you made it work well for you.

dawn_felagund February 27 2009, 15:13:08 UTC

Thank you! I might be odd, but I find sestinas less intimidating than sonnets, possibly because they're longer and ... well, you know, I have an issue with keeping things brief. ;)

Or maybe because writers like Shakespeare mastered the sonnet whereas most (modern) sestinas don't do much for me.

miss_nightowl February 25 2009, 10:16:03 UTC

That poem was mezmerising!
I never thought I´d see a poem from Morgoth´s point of view.

Really REALLY well done! I wouldn´t mind sharing this poem with my other Tolkien friends, you now.
Could I...?

dawn_felagund February 27 2009, 15:14:58 UTC

Yes, apparently Morgoth's PoV is an oddity! :D I hadn't even thought of it, honestly, when writing this. As I told mithluin, the poem just wanted to be written, and it wouldn't take a PoV other than Morgoth's. So I didn't give much thought to writing poetry from the PoV of the Dark Lord!

And, yes, I would be honored if you wished to share the poem with others! Please feel free to do so, with my blessing. :) Thank you!