Semi-drabble

[tuxedo-elf.livejournal.com]

Uli asked me to post this here - so I am! One Maedhros drabble, by request!


Conflict

The flames dance in the corner of my eyes, unavoidable, no matter how I try. They dance and taunt me - I should have tried harder to sway my father from this course of action. I failed and now all I can do is stand aside.

Yet who am I to sway my father from anything? Never has he listened to council, going so far as to drive my mother away. I am but the first of seven sons, an heir by virtue of good timing. Or bad, perhaps, for what am I heir to now, but blood and grief?

I understand my father’s quest, his love of that which he created. I understand it and I will aid him as I have sworn. Yet here, now, as I feel the heat on my body and the smell of the White Ships burning I think only ‘we should not have done this’.

~End~

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

I love this! Thank you for posting here :)

I am but the first of seven sons, an heir by virtue of good timing. Or bad, perhaps, for what am I heir to now, but blood and grief?

Oh...these lines are great! The predicament of the elder Feanorions has always struck me, for they certainly never expected their grandfather and father to die in close succession and leave them as kings. (And Macalaure certainly never expected Maitimo to be captured....)

CONFLICT

[digdigil.livejournal.com]

Awww...poor Maedhros....*huggles Maedhros*...mmmmm....*does more stuff to Maedhros*

This was a very nice drabble. Thank you. In case you hadn't noticed, I love Maedhros. BTW, is that Rumil in your icon? Cute Rumil. I like him, too.