The single fannish activity I just can't seem to quit
It's been forever, but finally a new fanmix, this time for one of my favorite little subplots of The Silmarillion. I love the symmetry of the this one. Also, Míriel is the only one on the cover due to A: lack of people pretty enough to be Finwë and Indis and B: my lack of Photoshop skillz xD Please comment if you're taking/with comments, questions, concerns, meta xD.
FIVE ACTS IN A HEARTBREAK
a Míriel/Finwë/Indis fanmix
get the .zip
I. The Beginning
A Fine Frenzy - You Picked Me
Like an apple on a tree
Hiding out behind the leaves
I was difficult to reach
But you picked me
Like a shell upon a beach
Just another pretty piece
I was difficult to see
But you picked me
Yeah you picked me
“The love of Finwë and Míriel was great and glad, for it began in the Blessed Realm in the Days of Bliss.”
The Silmarillion
Keane - Walnut Tree
Underneath the walnut tree
Where you said you'd wait for me
And I waited a long, long time
Why, why do I come here?
Seeking out the memories I hold in
'Cause you put your spell on me
Made me live in memory
And I’m frozen in just the wrong time
I waited a long, long time
“Now it is told that in the bearing of her son Míriel was consumed in mind and body; and that after his birth she yearned for rest from the labor of living. And she said to Finwë: ‘Never again shall I bear a child; for strength that would have nourish the life of many has gone forth unto Fëanáro.’”
Histories of Middle-Earth: Morgoth’s Ring
II. The Despair
Seether & Amy Lee - Broken
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
You've gone away
You don't feel me here anymore
“Míriel’s death was of free will; she forsook her body and her fëa and went to the Halls of Waiting, while her body lay as if asleep in a garden. She said that she was weary in body and spirit and desired peace.”
Histories of Middle-Earth: The Peoples of Middle-Earth
III. The Emptiness
My Chemical Romance - Helena
Burning on just like a match you strike to incinerate
The lives of everyone you know
And what's the worst you take
From every heart you break
And like the blade you stain
Well I've been holding on tonight
What's the worst that I can say?
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight
“Finwë’s grief was great, and he gave to his son all the love he had for Míriel.”
Histories of Middle-Earth: Morgoth’s Ring
Howie Day - Ghost
I know there's little use in crying
It's more wide awake and dying then I'm used to
I thought we'd walk these streets together
Now I'm hoping that I'll never have to meet you
Step aside from all this anger
And somewhere in between I can feel you
“When it became clear at last that Míriel would never of her own free will return to life in the body within any span on time that could give him hope, Finwë’s sorrow became embittered. He forsook his long vigils by her sleeping body and sought to take up his own life again; but he wandered far and wide in loneliness and found no joy in anything that he did.”
Histories of Middle-Earth: The Peoples of Middle-Earth
IV. The Hope
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
It's nothing but time and a face that you lose
I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose
I'll write you a postcard
I'll send you the news
From a house down the road from real love
Live through this, and you won't look back
“There was a fair lady of the Vanyar, Indis of the House of Ingwë. She had loved Finwë in her heart, ever since the days when the Vanyar and the Noldor lived close together. In one of his wanderings Finwë met her again; and her face was lit by the golden light of Laurelin that was shining in the plain of Ezellohar below. In that hour Finwë perceived in her eyes the love that had before been hidden from him.”
Histories of Middle-Earth: The Peoples of Middle-Earth
V. The End
The Veronicas - Everything I’m Not
‘Cause you’re so perfect
And no one measures up
Yeah all by yourself
You're all messed up
I was losing myself to somebody else
But now I see
I don't wanna pretend so this is the end
Of you and me
Cause the girl that you want
She was tearing us apart
Cause she's everything
Everything I'm not
“She was a Vanya, golden-haired and tall, and in all ways unlike Míriel. Finwë loved her greatly, and was glad again. But the shadow of Míriel did not depart from the House of Finwë, nor from his heart.”
The Silmarillion
The Fray - All At Once
Maybe you want her, maybe you need her
Maybe you started to compare to someone not there
Maybe you want it, maybe you need it
Maybe it's all you're running from
Perfection will not come
And all at once the crowd begins to sing
Sometimes
We'd never know what's wrong without the pain
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
“Then his heart turned at last to her, and he believed that this chance, as it seemed, had been granted for the comfort of them both.”
Histories of Middle-Earth: Morgoth’s Ring