The story is "Neighbourly Relations", which not a B2MeM piece or at any rate not in the sense you mean, I think. I wrote and posted some sections of that story for B2MeM 2013 (not including this particular passage). The passage (which I've now included in the post above) reads as follows:
I [i.e. Aegnor] had had opportunities to consider what it might mean not to return fully from Angband. No longer was it something that happened only to Sindar. To my knowledge, a handful of captured Noldor had escaped or been freed over the years. Ardil had disappeared again, under suspicious circumstances. Saron had, without warning, strangled his wife and daughter and then set himself on fire. Maryame had not walked since, although she had been freed more than two hundred years of the sun ago. My friend Vanimo now lived like a prisoner in his quarters and suffered agonies of fear every time he had to set foot outside the door.
Of those whose fate I knew, Russandol seemed to have made the best recovery by far. I did not even want to think about that. And I did not want to hear what Angarato had to say about it in case it was not what I wanted to hear.
I think even without the context you will see the point I was trying to make here. But to make that point I had to invent four named characters and inflict hideous suffering on them in just one paragraph. It's perhaps a bit odd of me to still be bothered by that two years later--but it did sufficiently that I was still trying to work out how to tell the story of Maryame and Vanimo properly...
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Date: 2015-03-21 08:08 pm (UTC)The story is "Neighbourly Relations", which not a B2MeM piece or at any rate not in the sense you mean, I think. I wrote and posted some sections of that story for B2MeM 2013 (not including this particular passage).
The passage (which I've now included in the post above) reads as follows:
I [i.e. Aegnor] had had opportunities to consider what it might mean not to return fully from Angband. No longer was it something that happened only to Sindar. To my knowledge, a handful of captured Noldor had escaped or been freed over the years. Ardil had disappeared again, under suspicious circumstances. Saron had, without warning, strangled his wife and daughter and then set himself on fire. Maryame had not walked since, although she had been freed more than two hundred years of the sun ago. My friend Vanimo now lived like a prisoner in his quarters and suffered agonies of fear every time he had to set foot outside the door.
Of those whose fate I knew, Russandol seemed to have made the best recovery by far. I did not even want to think about that. And I did not want to hear what Angarato had to say about it in case it was not what I wanted to hear.
I think even without the context you will see the point I was trying to make here. But to make that point I had to invent four named characters and inflict hideous suffering on them in just one paragraph.
It's perhaps a bit odd of me to still be bothered by that two years later--but it did sufficiently that I was still trying to work out how to tell the story of Maryame and Vanimo properly...