O72 - Fire on the Mountain

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Map’s Edge: The Balrogs
Format: Drabble
Genre: General
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: OCs
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Great was the burning; greater the grieving / So the songs from the South-land tell us.

Fire on the Mountain

A Rider of Rohan brings back a new-old tale from Mundburg:

Once a white city stood midst circling mountains,
High halls hidden from foe and hurt.
Gondolin the Great, tall tower of Turgon,
With seven gates wrought of gold and silver.

Long the walls lasted till treason took them –
Kinsman of the King, Maeglin the ’curséd.
With drake and worm was their doom wrought,
With fell beast of fire – a Balrog of Morgoth,
Wingéd with smoke, its sword aflame.
The towers trembled ’neath its footfall.

Great was the burning; greater the grieving
So the songs from the South-land tell us.

Comments

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

Very well done! I can almost see it happening.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[zdenka]

I enjoyed both the idea and the execution. I only wish I could read more of this saga as the Rohirrim tell it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I swore I'd only write drabbles this month, but this does really need to be longer.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say something about the poem, but instead I'l just be sitting here being awed. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! :-)