"Finding Vingilot" by Lyra

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B2MeM Prompt and Path: Green - "Animals" and "Lost and Found"
Format: Watercolour
Genre: Fanart
Rating: Gen
Warnings: Questionable perspective?
Characters: Elwing
Pairings: Elwing/Eärendil
Creator’s Notes (optional): One pic for the cost of two prompts, yay?
Summary: For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved. On a time of night Eärendil at the helm of his ship saw her come towards him, as a white cloud exceeding swift beneath the moon, as a star over the sea moving in strange course, a pale flame on wings of storm. (The Silmarillion, "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath")





Larger view of the pic at my dA account.

Comments

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

"Send help!" indeed! Even on a bigger ship, the ocean is so midboggingly huge. I can't fathom how people ever dared to cross it in teeny tiny nutshells (and without sonar or GPS). So yes, Vingilot should certainly look lost.
I suspect Elwing is beyond wanting to speak (or even think articulated thoughts) at this point. We are told she dropped down exhausted as soon as she'd found the boat. While that initially sounds a bit soppy, I find it pretty believable, like victims of a car crash who somehow just keep going and doing stuff while under shock but as soon as they realise they're safe, break together. Add to that the knowledge of what she left behind and the confusion of suddenly having wings... it must have been draining experience all around!
Thank you!