B2MeM09: Day Five

[dawn_felagund]

Day Five

Consider something that you regret: something that you did and wish you could undo, something you didn't do and wish that you had. Think or write briefly about what you would do if you had a second chance and how you think your life might be different without that regret. If your character would have a chance to start anew and with a clean slate, what would he or she do with such a chance? Write a story, poem or create an artwork where this is offered to them or how they execute such a chance.

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Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Belated Finwëan melodrama. (http://livingshapes.livejournal.com/22302.html#cutid1) We all knew this had to be coming...

[dawn_felagund]

Or perhaps it’s that the world was created by music, and now it looks after the musicians.

This is just a gorgeous, gorgeous line, and an intriguing idea as well! :) I feel like I could take this line and write stories about it; it is very inspiring. (Maybe if we ever do a challenge like this again, we might ask to borrow it for a prompt! ;)

I felt like I was punched when I read that he threw the pendant away, but I am a packrat to end all packrats ... I keep everything that hearkens to the past or sentimental memories. However, as an action in this story, this works exceptionally well; it really shows the extent to which he's willing to go to erase his identity and start anew. (I also felt regret that he wanted to remove his wife's embroidery.)

What an excellent vignette! And I think that the inevitability of Finwean melodrama is a law of Silmfic! :) Somehow, I'm getting a dramatic Finwion even in my B2MeM project, which is about Pengolodh of Nevrast, for pity's sake!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I feel like I could take this line and write stories about it; it is very inspiring.

Ok, I have to admit something: In my daydreams about a Silmarillion movie (or tv series), this is one of the lines I'd have Maglor say in the very beginning (because I am a fan of frames, I'd start the film with the end, with Maglor walking along the shores before panning back waaaay into the past). I've been carrying it around with me for years. And now it's made its way out into the open. I'm glad it found friends! ;)

Another thing I have to admit, from one packrat to another: I at first could not bring myself to write him throwing that pendant away. At first he tried to toss it away but kept retaining it. And then I thought "That makes no sense; it's not what he'd do in that situattion", and I rewrote it, and... well, it took three attempts until he actually threw it away. But it was important that he'd do it.

I suspect he may find it on the beach one day. If he doesn't, Daeron will. I love that pendant too much to let it go.
... silly, isn't it?