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[avon7]

Title: The Prince of Golden Flowers
Author: Avon
Word Count: 100
Characters/Work: Glorfindel
Adult Content/Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Tolkien's universe: I'm just a visitor.
Author's note: Again previously published but not on LJ.

Comments

[shebit]

I like the last line. It's a nice idea, teaching a child about a hero who fell long ago, and without whom all would have been lost.

[avon7]

Thanks. For tjose who escaped Gondolin he would have to have been a hero, I think.

[rubynye]

I wonder if that child got to meet the resurrected Glorfindel...

[avon7]

Never thought of that, maybe I guess.

[aesc]

Oh, pretty. And sad, of course.

The end is powerful -- the sudden realization that the drabble is direct address, and the audience is a child. I can picture a parent tucking the flower behind his/her child's ear, as this is explained.

[avon7]

Thank you! That is, of course, exactly the image I hoped to give someone. (Though, oddly enough I always see it as a grandparent.)