"A bittersweet reunion" by Lyra

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2012 BINGO Bash (Women of the Silmarillion: "Women who survive"). Also covers the Passport to Middle-earth prompt for March 19/ Rivendell: "Write a story or create a piece of artwork centred on meetings or reunions."

Format: Ficlet

Genre: Drama, if something so short qualifies for any genre at all

Rating: General

Warnings: Allusions to canonical character death

Characters: Galadriel, Finarfin

Pairings: n/a

Creators' Notes (optional):
Very heavily inspired by GoldSeven's painting All the others, gone.

I just dug this out of my WiP folder, polished a few sentences and otherwise posted this as I'd left it, four years ago. Why I didn't post it back then is beyond me. *shrugs*

Summary:
Having set up camp in Middle-earth to prepare for the War of Wrath, Finarfin has the most important meeting of them all.

"A bittersweet reunion" at the SWG archive

Comments

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed bittersweet. I am glad that she and her father were able to fight together, at least.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Yes, I feel it must have been a very important moment (days? weeks?) for both of them. Finarfin probably expected Galadriel to come back home later, and maybe she initially thought she would, too... instead, they have to part for yet another couple of millennia. So indeed, at least they got to be together for the battle (and protect each other a bit, maybe)!