Trust Not Blindly, by Zdenka

[zdenka]

B2MeM Challenge: B2MeM 2013 B, Day 4: "Down the swift dark stream you go / Back to lands you once did know..." and I, Day 12: “For it seemed to her a thing strange and crooked in him, as indeed the Eldar ever since have deemed it: an evil fruit of the Kinslaying, whereby the shadow of the curse of Mandos fell upon the last hope of the Noldor.”
Format: ficlet
Genre: het, I guess?
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Characters: Idril, Maeglin
Pairings: Maeglin/Idril (one-sided), Idril/Tuor
Creators' Notes: I once saw a picture of Tuor wearing his white-winged helmet, and it got me to thinking about similarities between him and the Swan Knight Lohengrin from Wagner’s opera. This fic is partly inspired by a scene in Lohengrin where the sorceress Ortrud tries to make Elsa doubt Lohengrin on the eve of her wedding to him. The title is taken from a line in that scene.
Summary: Idril has a troubling encounter with her cousin Maeglin on the morning of her betrothal to Tuor.



Here on AO3. Comments welcome here or there.

Comments

[zdenka]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. It seemed to me that they could well be friendly, at least before Idril becomes aware of Maeglin's feelings and it starts making her uncomfortable.

Heh. I'm glad it wasn't too in-your--face operatic. ;)