"I looked first on stars" by Amy Fortuna (starbrow)

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B2MeM Challenge: Other Silmarillion-based locations: something about a female couple at Cuiviénen who awoke together.
Format: Poem
Genre: Romance
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Characters: Original Female Characters (unnamed)
Pairings: OFC/OFC
Creators' Notes (optional): Written for International Women's Day.
Summary: A poem about the lives of a female couple who awoke at Cuiviénen together.

Note: Written originally in Quenya by an anonymous Noldorin nis, apparently written after the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. Appears in several books now held in the Library of Rivendell, including There Is No Returning (a collection of poems about Cuiviénen), Love Poems Of The Noldorin, and Translations From The Elvish (Volume 2) by Bilbo Baggins. The poem is also mentioned (and highly praised) in Form And Function Of First Age Poetry, author unknown (speculation holds that this is by Maglor Feanorion, though if he wrote half the stuff he’s rumoured to have written he wouldn’t have had time to do any Kinslaying, that’s for sure). The poem has no title and as such is referred to by its first line.


I looked first on stars
In your eyes reflected.
Pools and whirls of galaxies
Defined by pupils and irises.
Dark eyes, bright stars,
Inside you, in the sky.

Long the road we walked
Under tree, under stars.
We sang the forest awake
Together; we danced and dreamed
Of Light beyond the seas.

There, at the Mingling
With you in my arms,
Your breasts against mine
Our lips together, our bodies entwined
In your eyes still I saw stars.

Across the Ice we walked
Through pain, under stars.
We sang to keep each other awake.
Together we dreamed
Of Light, lost, to be regained.

There, in Beleriand
With you in my arms
Dark hair and gold mingling,
Our mouths meeting, blood on our armour
In your eyes still I saw stars.

I looked last on stars
In your eyes reflected.
Pools and whirls of love
Defined by pupils and irises.
Dark eyes, bright stars
Inside you, eternal skies.

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Thank you so much! I had such fun writing that note. :)