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nautika3

Prompt Direction: Before Hope

May 21, 2007 23:17

Before Hope
For OAA Prompt # 65 Direction
Author's notes are at the end....nautika

"She has accepted your … our counsel. What distresses you so?"

"What distresses me? I carried her under my heart as she grew in my womb, nurtured her from my breast as a babe and kissed her hurts better when she was a child! Now, as a young woman, she turns to me for ( Read more... )

lotr, gilrean, prompt

Comments 4

lindahoyland May 22 2007, 06:48:24 UTC

This was very moving.Ivorwen (SP? AS I don't have LOTR open) is an interesting character.I've not read "Peoples of M-e" so this is new to me.

nautika3 May 26 2007, 04:01:15 UTC

I havent read anything on her (and I think the spelling is right, though Tolkien originally used an E instead of an I) other than the advise she gave Gilrean (who was spelled Gilrain at this point in PoME), but I've seen it a couple of places.

calen_greenleaf May 22 2007, 10:58:46 UTC

Thought-provoking, Nautika. I never knew that Gilraen might've not wanted to marry Arathorn.

I have never read PoME, but I will someday.

~Calenlass

nautika3 May 26 2007, 03:59:13 UTC

Actually, she didnt want to marry because she was younger than most women of the Dunedain were when they wed. Also it says Arathorn was older (and stern). I just sort of read between the lines whether they were there or not. Paraphrasing is a risky thing!