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b2mem2012-03-09 09:56 am
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Scribal Frustration, by Elleth
B2MeM Challenge:
B10: Occupations: Scribe, Off the Map's Edge: Fell Beast
Format: Drabble
Genre: Er. Uninspired meta-ish humor?
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Characters: OFC
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Well, what do you write about Fell Beasts? A young Gondorian wonders.
Aeleth sighed, spat out a frazzle of feather, and looked from the chewed-on quill to her parchment.
Lebedrevail are
The words were mocking her. It was impossible to write convincingly on these creatures. The Ring War had been an Age ago; every piece of writing that otherwise would have been able to give a factual account of them, such as the Lady of Emyn Arnen's battle with one, showed the influence of Black Breath, and thus made them altogether unreliable, compiled, above all, by a fanciful, overdramatic Perian: Forgotten mountains, cold beneath the moon...
Ai.
Perhaps tomorrow. Aeleth went home.
Notes:
Lebedrevail translates (I hope) to 'winged finger (pl.)' in Gondorian Sindarin. The joke may become more obvious (but probably not much funnier) if you have read Tolkien's letter 211 to Rhona Beare in which he describes the Fell Beasts: I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a 'pterodactyl', and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the 'Prehistoric'). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to the new mythology, and its description even provides a sort of way in which it could be a last survivor of older geological eras. "Semi-scientific mythology?" Ai. (And yes, Aeleth is rather intentionally an obvious pastiche of my online handle, though no quills were harmed in the writing of this drabble.)
B10: Occupations: Scribe, Off the Map's Edge: Fell Beast
Format: Drabble
Genre: Er. Uninspired meta-ish humor?
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Characters: OFC
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Well, what do you write about Fell Beasts? A young Gondorian wonders.
Aeleth sighed, spat out a frazzle of feather, and looked from the chewed-on quill to her parchment.
Lebedrevail are
The words were mocking her. It was impossible to write convincingly on these creatures. The Ring War had been an Age ago; every piece of writing that otherwise would have been able to give a factual account of them, such as the Lady of Emyn Arnen's battle with one, showed the influence of Black Breath, and thus made them altogether unreliable, compiled, above all, by a fanciful, overdramatic Perian: Forgotten mountains, cold beneath the moon...
Ai.
Perhaps tomorrow. Aeleth went home.
Notes:
Lebedrevail translates (I hope) to 'winged finger (pl.)' in Gondorian Sindarin. The joke may become more obvious (but probably not much funnier) if you have read Tolkien's letter 211 to Rhona Beare in which he describes the Fell Beasts: I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a 'pterodactyl', and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the 'Prehistoric'). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to the new mythology, and its description even provides a sort of way in which it could be a last survivor of older geological eras. "Semi-scientific mythology?" Ai. (And yes, Aeleth is rather intentionally an obvious pastiche of my online handle, though no quills were harmed in the writing of this drabble.)
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Thanks for a giggle.
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So, the Black Breath could interfere with memories, eh?
Apparently! Fear actually serves as a stimulus to retain memories a lot better (which I suppose makes a great deal of sense from an evolutionary standpoint) but with dark magic (TM) also in play, who knows! ;)