A Commission for Nerdanel, by Himring

[hhimring]

B2MeM Challenge: B2MeM 2016: Memories. B2MeM 2012: Talents and skills (card): I30: pottery
Format: Drabble
Genre: Crack
Rating: PG13
Warnings: alleged sexual content
Characters: Varda, Nerdanel, Ilmare
Pairings: Varda/teapot (?!)
Creators' Notes (optional): Perpetrated because I badly needed to write a female teapot for Tolkien Weekly. But since I actually did have that pottery prompt in mind, I'm cross-posting it here.
Summary: Nerdanel, resident artist, meets an unusual challenge with her usual flair. But who was it who issued that challenge, really?

It was so very feminine a teapot, Varda mused. Those curves! Such an air of suggestiveness… She almost blushed to be following them with her eyes.
‘Admirable, as ever, my dear Nerdanel!’ she exclaimed. ‘Who else but you could have created a female teapot? Who except you could have come up with the idea?’ She hesitated briefly but curiosity won out over politeness. ‘Why exactly would you want to?’
‘But… You asked me to, Tintalle! Ilmare said…’
‘Ilmare!’
The Valie and the elf turned to the handmaiden, who visibly flinched.
‘Ilmare, have you been at the vats of silindrin again?’

Note: I'm applying "silindrin" here to the contents of Silindrin (the silver dew of Telperion); it seems a suitably illicit substance for a Maia to be getting into.

Comments

[hhimring]

It had to be done! I just suddenly felt the world would be the poorer for it if there was no female teapot!