"A Merry Feast" by Himring
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b2memTitle: A Merry Feast
Author Name: Himring
Prompt: "Let us think that at this midwinter the feast shall be merrier than in all our years yet, with a fearless spring to follow after!" (Children of Húrin) (Seasons of Middle-earth: Winter)
Summary: Morwen at midwinter
Rating: Teens
Warnings: canonical outcome of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad (chiefly implied)
Author's Notes: A true drabble originally posted in January at Tolkien Weekly for the prompt "Wine", after first reading the B2MeM 2014 prompts list. I hope it is ok to repost it here.
"Let us think that at this midwinter the feast shall be merrier than in all our years yet,” he said and she tried to hold that thought. But she remembered another winter when the night was without moon, the plain stretched dim beneath the stars, and watch-fires burned low. That winter, life as she knew it had ended, and so this second life, too, might end.
For all that, she could not stop waiting for him. Midwinter came and she was still listening for the sound of his horse. There was no wine. She drank his health in cold water.
The description of the winter night in which the Battle of Sudden Flame erupted, leading to the destruction of Morwen's home and the death of most of her family, is closely based on the Silmarillion (and was part of another B2MeM prompt). Morwen listening for the neigh of Hurin's horse Arroch is also canonical.
ETA: In case anybody missed them, I would like to recommend the two excellent compilation fills for this prompt: Beleriand's Finest by Zeen and Glas Arnoediad by Adlanth.
Author Name: Himring
Prompt: "Let us think that at this midwinter the feast shall be merrier than in all our years yet, with a fearless spring to follow after!" (Children of Húrin) (Seasons of Middle-earth: Winter)
Summary: Morwen at midwinter
Rating: Teens
Warnings: canonical outcome of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad (chiefly implied)
Author's Notes: A true drabble originally posted in January at Tolkien Weekly for the prompt "Wine", after first reading the B2MeM 2014 prompts list. I hope it is ok to repost it here.
"Let us think that at this midwinter the feast shall be merrier than in all our years yet,” he said and she tried to hold that thought. But she remembered another winter when the night was without moon, the plain stretched dim beneath the stars, and watch-fires burned low. That winter, life as she knew it had ended, and so this second life, too, might end.
For all that, she could not stop waiting for him. Midwinter came and she was still listening for the sound of his horse. There was no wine. She drank his health in cold water.
The description of the winter night in which the Battle of Sudden Flame erupted, leading to the destruction of Morwen's home and the death of most of her family, is closely based on the Silmarillion (and was part of another B2MeM prompt). Morwen listening for the neigh of Hurin's horse Arroch is also canonical.
ETA: In case anybody missed them, I would like to recommend the two excellent compilation fills for this prompt: Beleriand's Finest by Zeen and Glas Arnoediad by Adlanth.
