G51 - Immovable Types

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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.