Story: Nai Etelehtuvanyet

[elvses.livejournal.com]

(This was posted in my journal and on the HASA May birthday forum on Friday, so some people may have already seen it in those places.)

Nai Etelehtuvanyet. Post-Mandos Finrod with Amárië, vignette sequence, PG. Some emotional gooeyness. This is an absolute departure from my usual style. I cannot say with any authority what came over me.

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[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

This is really really well written, I just had to read it again and again... Very poignant, you capture both sides - Amarie and Finrod - incredibly well with very sharp writing.

Fav bits

Amárië, who cares too deeply, watches with a pain in her ribs: a hollow niche where the memory of her husband used to live

It is a while before he turns to her, but when he does, she nearly gasps at the look in his eyes. Her hand jumps to her cheek. In that second, in that blue-laced moonlight, the old Findaráto stares back at her, and her heart pounds louder to shout out to a thing it has not seen in so many years. There is her husband, as plain as if he had never gone.

He has never seen Alqualondë by the light of the sun, but Eärwen has, and she does her best to champion its beauty.

I'd love to see more of this :)

[elvses.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and I am very glad you think so. I don't know if there will ever be more of this (because, while I don't plan to continue it now, I can't say no for certain on account of how I have a tendency to write things I had no intention of ever doing). But there will be more of Amárië and Finrod some day. I'm working on the necessary 'first meeting' story, though this one is done in a very different style and from Amárië's first person POV.