G51 - Immovable Types

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Write what you know: Borrow someone else’s OC; Scientific achievement: Print
Format: Drabble
Genre: General
Rating: Gen
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Amrothos
Pairings: N/A
Summary: He chops words up into discrete parts.

Immovable Types

The idea came from stories heard in childhood of the family dream: the great ineluctable wave; the intransigence of Powers faced by Man’s pride. It breaks his heart to think of everything gone: poetry and lays and songs; philosophies and treatises; devices and machines he can barely imagine.

So he chops words up into discrete parts; moulds them; turns them into metal. Everything taken apart, rebuilt, fixed. He pictures constellations of knowledge; galaxies of lore.

Others will fear his creation and the unruliness it will bring. But he means to set words free so they will never be lost again.

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A/N: I do know that Amrothos is named by Tolkien. But he'll always be Isabeau's Amrothos to me.

Comments

[starli-ght.livejournal.com]

I love it! And, I agree: you guys have done such a wonderful job of fleshing out this part of the universe that it's very hard to write these characters without the personalities you have given them in mind ;-)

Actually, I must confess that I have not been able to write this prompt because I *know* Amrithos created the printing press and I know I just cannot write him... ;-)

Anyway, back to the story: I like how he longs for all the lost writings, both because of his scholarly nature but also because of his channeling Faramir here. And I particularly like that strand of rebellion? (not sure that's the right word there: he knows the mayhem this will create, but he's doing it anyway. Wonderful!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Starlight! He is a wonderful creation of Isabeau's and I'm very lucky to get to play with him. I hope you'll try this prompt, though!

I think it is a kind of rebellion - maybe mischievousness might be closer? I think he's not afraid of the freedom that his invention will bring, whereas for others that's precisely what they fear.

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

A mighty--and worthy--ambition for Imrahil's youngest son.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think he'd be up to it :-)