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B2MeM09: Day Twenty-Four
Day Twenty-Four
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Choose your favorite line or quotation from a non-Tolkien source. It can be a book, movie, poem--anything you can think of!
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Here:
One Day at a Time
http://f-ireworks.livejournal.com/45645.html
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The Answer
http://brynnhilde.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/a-drabble-for-silmarillion/
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http://whitewave16.livejournal.com/33518.html
In the Dark - Dwim
(Anonymous) 2009-03-28 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)Favorite quotations and sources are subject to change, but I wrote this based on Tom Waits "LowDown", specifically this line:
"She's a big, red flag in a mean bull-pen."
Summary: "She's a wild rose, she's not settled, cold gun of ice blue metal..."
She’s on that dais every morning, every evening – a bright, white flame in the dark narrows of the hall. She will turn her head, and every eye is drawn in a heartbeat to that flash of gold. His eyes, too, as he sits beneath her on the stair, and Háma feels dirtied to see it – for that one looks not only to see her hair, or her face.
She feels it, the Lady Éowyn. Háma knows. She walks out onto the practice grounds each day, when the sun is highest, to wash that unwanted look off in sweat and hurt – hers or whatever young hothead thinks to challenge. And they do challenge – she gets a ring of lads around her every time. They keep the prying eyes blind for a little while at least.
Let the lads look, he always thinks, but sends men wiser, older, hardier to face her, or takes her himself. She does not deserve the boys, after all, and Háma finds he does not quite trust her not to wound when at last she can.
But he says nothing of that, either – she’s not one of his lads, after all, and something in him weighs heavy against the urge to tame that fury, and its quickness that takes no prisoners.
For she will have to stand upon that dais by day’s end, and all the next morn, and in between there are dim halls and shadows – black enough, perhaps, to lose her shine in, and then Meduseld will go dark.
Someone, he thinks, should put those snake-eyes out. Just put them out, quiet in the dark. But he cannot – they cannot. They’re a kingdom of moles, with one bright flame to dazzle them, and beyond that no one can see his way… to anything.
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On the broader point of language, per our meta-ish conversation the other day, words always amaze me for the power they have over us. It truly is as Hawthorne says: You see these little black otherwise-meaningless symbols and think they can't do much harm ... but they forge friendships, start wars, and allow people born continents or centuries apart to understand one another. Which is why I can't put too much value on seeing a person as I do speaking with her. :)
And, somehow, I think Elrond would have remember Maglor's lesson. :)
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*happy sigh*
This is just beautiful! :)
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*blinks* What is there to argue about it?
That's another wonderful point-- there have been so much words have done, so what's the difference if they crosses an ocean taking weeks to get there back in the Age of Sail or seconds via the Internet?
I think Elrond learned a lot from Maglor, both on what to do and what not to do.
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Enjoy!
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http://lindahoyland.livejournal.com/147321.html?view=1120377#t1120377
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I compiled a list of who has completed what for the challenge, and I have that you are missing days 27 and 30 ... but you also wrote an entry that satisfied both Mercurial Monday prompts, so you actually only have one left to do! :) Yes, I think you will make it! And, of course, if you don't want to write for either of those, subbing another Mercurial Monday is fine too. :)
Of course, you're always welcome to write for more prompts than needed to complete the challenge, but I did want you to know how close you are to your shinies--yay!
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Now I know more about what hapened in the Simarillion it makes me understand Aragorn's life and death far more.
Thank you too for counting for me as I wasn't sure. I've written something for the final two prompts.I thought I'd have to combine two,but I had a sudden idea for a drabble when waiting for church to start tonight. I'm just waiting for my beta reader's opinion and then I'll post them. I'm thrilled I've managed to write 31 + 1, as I was hindered by both health and computer problems last month.
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