(Fic) Stars
I'm still alive! And to get back into the habit of posting after a six-week absence, here's a short story I've had sitting on my disk for a while,almost-finished.
It's a sequel to Rite of Passage , in the same continuity as Tying the Knot and A Matter of Perspective. It features Lissiel, the chief handmaiden of Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess ( Read more... )
It's a sequel to Rite of Passage , in the same continuity as Tying the Knot and A Matter of Perspective. It features Lissiel, the chief handmaiden of Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess ( Read more... )
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Lissiel is about 58 at the time of this story. Elves come of age at 50, so she's a very young adult by elven standards. I'm assuming she (and Fëanor and Nerdanel) were all in the first generation of Eldar to be born in Valinor, after the Great Journey ended.
Ilmarë
She's described in the Silmarillion as "chief among the Maiar of Valinor, [...] the handmaid of Varda". Eönwë is her co-equal, and in earlier versions of the story he's her brother.
Mindon Eldaliéva
The highest tower in Tirion, and I assume the tallest building in the world at this point in history. (Not that there's much competition.)
"I didn't even know Maiar had wings!"
Sorry. :)
You're kind of falling sideways
Please don't ask how you can be in orbit around a flat world. Ilmarë would just shrug and talk about metaphors and alternate perceptions if you asked her.
the poem they'd all been taught as children
This appears as the third verse of the song sung by Gildor's company in The Fellowship of the Ring:
O Stars that in the Sunless ( ... )
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