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Desire path by cloudbower for JazTheBard
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Feb 2025
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It might have been a short story, a simple one. Two princesses: one dark, one light. A noble knight, pure of heart. Love requited, love spurned. A prophecy. A curse.
But only young rivers run straight. Told enough times, a tale wears at its boundaries, begins to twist and bow and braid…
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Female Maeglin, cursed, lomiel, explain myself a dozen times to every rank in the fortress Apparently, her dreams had not told her that fact. To her credit, she recovers quickly, Meleth, knows in her flinty core that she cannot refuse a challenge, botanical, Sindarin knot? Jeweled-inlay for weeds…Sponsor, explain myself a dozen times to every rank in the fort, Apparently, her dreams had not told her that fact. To her credit, she recovers quickly, indignant that she cannot put her talents to use, of course she chafes at the role of a mere attendant. She knows little of women’s work and far less of the complex dance of Noldorin etiquette and all the dizzying palace politics at play in every waking moment, perfect storybook princess; the shining jewel at the center of all her mother’s stories, examination, Meleth, knows in her flinty core that she cannot refuse a challenge, botanical Sindarin knot? Jeweled-inlay for weeds… pretend, Helcaraxë, trapped, Idril thinks, wildly, that she will bite the blackberry off her lip, but the sweet inexperience of Lómiel’s kiss sears Idril infinitely hotter than she expects. She gasps with the touch of Idril’s tongue, her hands hover restlessly over Idril’s body, she trembles prettily, obstruction of her viciously tight stays, cosmic punishment, draws out a silver locket on a long chain around his neck. Sindarin marriage custom, some hidden trigger on its ornate surface. Encased in glass on each side is a coiled braid of black hair, one of them interwoven with fine gold filament, not quite as flashy as Fingon’s gilded ribbons; she’d always been more reserved, parentage, gilded cage, enchantment, intentions, tear dots the floor, Wretch, iron-wrought, charming servant is an amusing novelty, tryst, free, already twisted her fate as far as it will stretch, boundaries, erosion at work: It happens at such a gradual and geological pace as to be invisible to the brief lives of its inhabitants– but surely, there must be a moment of perceptible change. A sense that the story has shifted, or will shift. A precipice. Southern sindar, second prince, coals, boundaries, gauche message, rainwalk, dense tree cover, foster, overture, petty and shameless, voyeur, Outrage and longing gyre in Maeglin’s chest with a sick swoop, deceiving, unwell, skirts, cursed, curse, blood, mantle, crystal points advance, "It is said, of the continual clash of chance and will and fate, that unforeseen actions or events will become integral parts of a tale, once it is finally done..." is a heavily derived Tolkien quote from "The Nature of Middle Earth", XI. "Fate and Free Will" crystal pillars, quartz,
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Desire path by cloudbower for JazTheBard
Fandoms:The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien