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b2memB2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: G48 Balsamine: Impatience (113. Card: Language of flowers)
Format: double drabble
Genre: childhood, friendship
Rating: PG
Warnings: no serious damage to anyone or anything (yet)
Characters: Turin, Sador Labadal, Beleg
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: This was not one of my cards. The drabble is inspired by it through Alasse's artwork for the prompt earlier this month, showing Beleg and Turin, and the quotation from the chapter "Turin in Doriath" that went with it.
Summary: Two lessons for Turin: one with Sador, and one with Beleg, and he learns not as much as he might.
‘Can I try, too?’ asked Turin.
Sador smiled and handed him the knife.
‘But have a care now! Take a lesson from my injury and don’t cut yourself!’
The knife was sharp and carved the soft wood Sador had picked out for him more easily than Turin had hoped. Already he saw the shape emerging and, in his mind, was boasting of his newly acquired skill to his mother, but then…
‘I ruined it.’
He was ready to hurl the half-carved piece back into the woodpile.
‘Stop,’ said Sador and took it from him.
‘See? We can fix it, almost…’
***
‘I ruined it,’ said Turin, dropping the pieces. ‘I never learn.’
‘That was an unfortunate blow,’ agreed Beleg. ‘But you are learning. Give yourself time!’
‘I have less time than you!’
‘There is truth to that. I had a long time to learn. But it seems to me you make your short time shorter. You struck too heavily, too quickly. Now you want to give up entirely. Is that not losing time? Try again.’
Just for Beleg, he would try, one more time.
Beleg, watching closely, stopped his arm with his hand.
‘Too much force again! Can you feel it?’
A/N: The full quotation is: "Often Beleg Strongbow came to Menegroth to seek him, and led him far afield, teaching him woodcraft and archery and (which he liked more) the handling of swords; but in crafts of making he had less skill, for he was slow to learn his own strength, and often marred what he made with some sudden stroke."
I also used the prompt "lesson" from Tolkien Weekly's Schooling Challenge.
Format: double drabble
Genre: childhood, friendship
Rating: PG
Warnings: no serious damage to anyone or anything (yet)
Characters: Turin, Sador Labadal, Beleg
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: This was not one of my cards. The drabble is inspired by it through Alasse's artwork for the prompt earlier this month, showing Beleg and Turin, and the quotation from the chapter "Turin in Doriath" that went with it.
Summary: Two lessons for Turin: one with Sador, and one with Beleg, and he learns not as much as he might.
‘Can I try, too?’ asked Turin.
Sador smiled and handed him the knife.
‘But have a care now! Take a lesson from my injury and don’t cut yourself!’
The knife was sharp and carved the soft wood Sador had picked out for him more easily than Turin had hoped. Already he saw the shape emerging and, in his mind, was boasting of his newly acquired skill to his mother, but then…
‘I ruined it.’
He was ready to hurl the half-carved piece back into the woodpile.
‘Stop,’ said Sador and took it from him.
‘See? We can fix it, almost…’
***
‘I ruined it,’ said Turin, dropping the pieces. ‘I never learn.’
‘That was an unfortunate blow,’ agreed Beleg. ‘But you are learning. Give yourself time!’
‘I have less time than you!’
‘There is truth to that. I had a long time to learn. But it seems to me you make your short time shorter. You struck too heavily, too quickly. Now you want to give up entirely. Is that not losing time? Try again.’
Just for Beleg, he would try, one more time.
Beleg, watching closely, stopped his arm with his hand.
‘Too much force again! Can you feel it?’
A/N: The full quotation is: "Often Beleg Strongbow came to Menegroth to seek him, and led him far afield, teaching him woodcraft and archery and (which he liked more) the handling of swords; but in crafts of making he had less skill, for he was slow to learn his own strength, and often marred what he made with some sudden stroke."
I also used the prompt "lesson" from Tolkien Weekly's Schooling Challenge.
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Date: 2019-03-30 08:36 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2019-03-31 09:34 am (UTC)Thanks, Erulisse!
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Date: 2019-03-30 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-31 09:41 am (UTC)Turin is trying, yes!
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Date: 2019-03-31 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-31 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-31 08:04 pm (UTC)"You struck too heavily, too quickly. Now you want to give up entirely." That sums up almost every (bad) decision Túrin will ever make ;_; Makes you wonder how different things would have gone if Beleg had been there with him for all of it.
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Date: 2019-03-31 08:29 pm (UTC)Well, we know even Beleg couldn't persuade him all the time, but it surely would have gone better than it did!
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Date: 2019-03-31 08:41 pm (UTC)