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Water challenge, River - Till the World is Mended

Feb 04, 2011 09:05

Author: Azalaisdep
Title: Till the World is Mended
Characters: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry
Rating: G
Source: RoTK
Disclaimer: Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien and his heirs: I wander there for fun, not profit

( Till the World is Mended )

character: other canon character, character: tom bombadil, character: hobbits, author: azalaisdep, challenge: water: rivers

Comments 26

clodia_metelli February 4 2011, 09:50:02 UTC

Oh, that's lovely! The images and the language are very Tom and Goldberry. Beautiful!

azalaisdep February 4 2011, 13:28:26 UTC

I particularly wanted to catch Tom's rhythms, so I'm pleased you think the language is right.

shirebound February 4 2011, 13:08:01 UTC

I never thought about what these two might have discussed after the hobbits went to bed. Very nice dialogue!

azalaisdep February 4 2011, 13:29:08 UTC

This, of course, is on a hypothetical return visit, but it's true that their previous conversation could also do with some gap-filling!

shirebound February 4 2011, 13:40:04 UTC

LOL, that's what I get for reading this with sleepy eyes! I think I need to curl up in one of Tom's beds as well.

curiouswombat February 4 2011, 13:18:41 UTC

Nice - I think Goldberry deserves more fiction....

azalaisdep February 4 2011, 13:27:50 UTC

She does! Although have you ever read Wild Iris's Window of Water? I think it might appeal to you on more grounds than one...

curiouswombat February 4 2011, 16:59:48 UTC

Oh yes! I had read it, but hadn't bookmarked it so it was lovely to go back and read it again. (I have finished work a little early and it was a really good way to use this stolen, secret, time!)

azalaisdep February 7 2011, 11:56:56 UTC

Stolen time with Legolas and Goldberry - yup, I'd vote for that!

someplacetobe February 4 2011, 14:50:19 UTC

Oooooh, that's lovely! The imagery within this seems very much them!

azalaisdep February 4 2011, 16:43:42 UTC

Good, I'm glad it feels right. I reread "In the House of Tom Bombadil" before I started it and JRRT writes it so vividly, I wanted to try to capture the right atmosphere.

someplacetobe February 4 2011, 17:04:52 UTC

I wanted to try to capture the right atmosphere.
I think that you have.

ex_lbilover February 4 2011, 14:53:03 UTC

I've tried a number of times to write this very scene but couldn't get it right. Thank you for writing it so wonderfully.

“Yet the once-merry Elf-friend is scoured, clear and brittle as glass,” Goldberry observes sadly, drawing up her bare feet under her; “he may never be healed, not in this world.”
I've often thought that Frodo's fate must be a deep grief to Goldberry.

azalaisdep February 4 2011, 16:42:43 UTC

When I remembered Gandalf's thought about Frodo becoming "like a glass filled with a clear light for for eyes to see that can", it suddenly seemed very likely that Goldberry might be one of those able to see it. And since JRRT clearly imples that whatever Goldberry is, she isn't an Elf, and that she's very much of Middle-earth, Frodo's departure for the West must have filled her with sadness, I think.

I'm honoured that you feel I've captured the scene for you!