hhimring: Estel, inscription by D. Salo (Default)
[personal profile] hhimring posting in [community profile] b2mem
B2MeM Challenge: I-18: rope-making (Talents and Skills); hill (Landscape)
Format: ficlet
Genre: general
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Characters: Galadriel, Celeborn
Pairings: Galadriel/Celeborn
Summary: A very long time before Master Samwise, hithlain rope already had its fans.


They depart from Doriath laden with gifts and supplies.

‘What is this?’, Artanis asks, picking up the coils of silvery-grey rope and weighing them in her hands. Soft, but strong, she thinks, liking the feel of it in her hands, the texture.

‘You are interested in rope?’, Celeborn asks in return. He should not have been surprised. She seems interested in anything and everything, this young Noldo.

‘My cousins in Alqualonde are skilled in all kinds of rope-making’, she answers. ‘Hawsers for their ships, painters for their boats... But I have not seen this material before.’

‘It is hithlain’, Celeborn tells her. ‘I could show you how it is made, if you were not about to leave...’

‘I will just have to come back then, won’t I?’, she says and smiles at him.

***

The silvery-grey rope slithers down the rock face, its final coil pooling at his feet.

His wife’s face appears up above, haloed in sunlit hair against blue sky.

‘Come on up’, she calls out cheerfully. ‘I can see Mirrormere from here!’

He shakes his head a little ruefully. ‘Noldo’, he grumbles to himself affectionately, takes firm hold of the rope and begins to climb.


Note on source material: First part based on the departure from Lorien in FOTR, second part more loosely on the descent from the Emyn Muil in TT. (Also, obviously, based on the Silmarillion.)


Date: 2012-03-01 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] just-ann-now.livejournal.com
Artanis! I love Artanis-fic. Thank you for this, it's lovely, and a wonderful use of the prompt!

Date: 2012-03-01 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
What a sweet glimpse into the early days of their courtship. :)

Date: 2012-03-01 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alasse-mirimiel.livejournal.com
Noldo indeed. I liked the parallels with LotR, and for some reason I really like Celeborn in this.

Date: 2012-03-01 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huinare.livejournal.com
Good one. I like the image of Galadriel clambering up rocks, since she does seem more than capable of it but we see her in state most of the time.

Date: 2012-03-01 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keiliss.livejournal.com
Yeah, this is how I know her *g*. Thanks for a lovely glimpse of them. Like your source material, very well chosen, and the prompts worked fine.

Date: 2012-03-02 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrowe.livejournal.com
Oh, this is a lovely use of the rope-making prompt:-0

Date: 2012-03-02 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aliana1.livejournal.com
This is charming! I especially like the description of the rope, and the last line.

Date: 2012-03-02 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foxrafer.livejournal.com
I like how flirtatious she is; seeing them like this is a lot of fun.

Date: 2012-03-02 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grey-wonderer.livejournal.com
Awwwww, I love this!

Date: 2012-03-02 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lindahoyland.livejournal.com
This was most enjoyable!

Date: 2012-03-02 05:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heartofoshun.livejournal.com
Very nicely done. I really like this. I love Galadriel and Celeborn a lot anyway, so you were kicking in an open door choosing to write about them. I also loved the parallel references the present one so happy and relaxed and the one from LotR so fraught with terrible tension and urgency.

Date: 2012-03-02 05:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starli-ght.livejournal.com
Much love! Not only was it a wonderful use of the prompt, but a most delightful story, as well. And, adding to it that second layer of the rope and what Sam was having to use it makes the whole come together in such a unique way. Great work!

Date: 2012-03-02 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] engarian.livejournal.com
This is a wonderful duo. Great job!

- Erulisse (one L)

Date: 2012-03-02 05:27 pm (UTC)
zdenka: Miriam with a tambourine, text "I will sing." (Default)
From: [personal profile] zdenka
I like this cheerful picture of them together! It's rare to see Galadriel and Celeborn being playful.

Date: 2012-04-02 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] havamahal.livejournal.com
I couldn't help but smile at that 'Noldo' in the last line. Such a sweet and light-hearted ficlet - despite mentioning of Alqualondë. I'm really starting to like Celeborn and Galadriel, especially your version of them. Hope we'll see them in your skilful hands more often from now on. :)

Date: 2012-04-04 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyelleth.livejournal.com
Another ficlet that I thought I had reviewed and just found I hadn't - but this was still as enjoyable at the second read-through as it has been at the first. I love the affection between these two, there are way too many fics that have Celeborn as the whipped, submissive husband. Seeing them on equal footing is delightful, and refreshing.

Date: 2018-03-02 01:06 am (UTC)
elleth: Galadriel smiling before a flowery background, with the letter "G" (LotR: Galadriel - G)
From: [personal profile] elleth
Coming back to this after years, I'm so struck by young(er) Galadriel's vivacity, and Celeborn's affectionate grumbling, it's such a vivid picture of either of their characters - and not hard to see how he fell in love with such a bright spirit. :D I loved the callback to Alqualondë, too - of course she'd know about ropes, even outside the matter of general interest!

Profile

b2mem: (Default)
Back to Middle-earth Month

August 2020

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 3rd, 2025 12:02 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios