Silm Drabble: Through Silence
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martasficTitle: Through Silence
Summary: Maglor remembers the Kinslaying.
Word Count: 100
Rating: Teen (adult themes)
Timeline: pre-First Age (bookverse)
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It was perfectly tuned, yet Maglor could not stand its touch. The harp-strings reminded him of nothing so much as his taut bow, the cascade of notes became a last wheezing breath.
Alqualonde – how could he ever play after that? His kinsmen's life had seeped through his grasp. Could fingers so slick with blood ever hold a harp steady again?
So it laid tucked away in its corner, wrapped in thick cloths to protect it from the ship's roiling. He could not play now, true, but one day he would. And when he did, their pain would be forgotten nevermore.
Summary: Maglor remembers the Kinslaying.
Word Count: 100
Rating: Teen (adult themes)
Timeline: pre-First Age (bookverse)
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"Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace." -- D.H. Lawrence
It was perfectly tuned, yet Maglor could not stand its touch. The harp-strings reminded him of nothing so much as his taut bow, the cascade of notes became a last wheezing breath.
Alqualonde – how could he ever play after that? His kinsmen's life had seeped through his grasp. Could fingers so slick with blood ever hold a harp steady again?
So it laid tucked away in its corner, wrapped in thick cloths to protect it from the ship's roiling. He could not play now, true, but one day he would. And when he did, their pain would be forgotten nevermore.