B10 - Famine in the Land

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MEM Challenge: Economy: Scarcity; Off the Map's Edge: Fell Beast
Format: Drabble
Genre: N/A
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Fell Beasts, Sauron
Summary: Their dominion was an older time.

Famine in the Land

Their dominion was an older time, before tales of lamps and suns and moons and Elves and Men. They flew above the world uncontested, thousands upon thousands, great dark skeins against the fledgling sky. They screamed and dived and feasted on the duller, slower beasts that crawled below.

Endless winter fell from nowhere. The sky turned black. The mountains erupted and the seas caught fire. Only the strongest survived, shivering alone in the cold pits, grubbing at dead earth for whatever they could find.

Then He came. And from the first piece of flesh He offered them, they were His.

Comments

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Fell Beast pterosaurs! Fabulous! Very, very vivid. Great dark skeins against the fledgling sky... brrr.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This B2MeM is certainly taking me to places I wouldn't have expected!

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

A perfect beginning for these creatures from Arda's premammalian periods. And of course Melkor and Sauron would be drawn to such creatures, Melkor breeding dragons from them and Sauron more disposable saddle steeds.

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

Oh wonderful! What a great story for the fell beasts - just one of M-e's wilder hunters, until starvation and environmental catastrophe sent them right into the Dark Lord's arms. I love the description of them in their heyday - such a vivid, terrifying image of skies full of fell beasts. Thank you, Una!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Powerful images there. Nice one!

[almaheart.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful! I never even thought to think of them, and it fits so marvelously. I can see them there ruling the sky, flocks like giant bats. Shivers.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Love the ancient beasts, and who else could take such great advantage of them....

- Erulisse (one L)

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

What a dangerous bond this became! I love the darkness of this fiction. Very well done.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the Map's Edge one of your cards? Thank you for the prompt! I was saying to Az that these cards have taken md to places I wouldn't have expected!

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

It is one of mine - and it has served its purpose well, I think!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I hadn't thought much about them before. These prompts are brilliant!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You may rub your hands together and cackle, expert thrower of superior nuzgul.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I hadn't thought about them before this prompt, and then I thought, ooh, let's have loads of 'em...!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked! :-)