"Tunnel" and "Sail" by Independence1776
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B2MeM Challenge: o65 Women of the Silmarillion (women of Gondolin)
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Idril
Pairings: None
Summary: Idril plans for Gondolin’s future.
It was stupid to ignore a Vala’s warning. Which is why she’d spent much of her free time studying maps of Gondolin and the surrounding mountains. Idril sighed. It would be difficult-- and break laws-- but it had to be done. She had to build a tunnel beneath the plain itself, ending close to the northern pass Cirith Thoronath.
It could be constructed, she’d discovered. But those who would design and build it must be handpicked by her, to keep word from getting to Turgon and Maeglin. It would be difficult, but she knew that the tunnel would be needed.
Sail
B2MeM Challenge: o65 Of the Sea (sailor
Format: Double drabble
Genre: General
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Idril, Tuor
Pairings: Idril/Tuor
Summary: Idril and Tuor sail West.
It had been centuries since Idril had been on the Sea. Tuor’s ship was mighty and well-built, but she worried.
How could she not? She was an Exile and her husband a Man. It would be so very easy for the Valar to never let them land, not even on Tol Eressëa, where no one lived. They didn’t know what defenses would be arrayed against them. They knew nothing save that the Valar would not be pleased with them.
And yet, she couldn’t imagine being anywhere else, sailing on a ship with her love. It felt right, just like building the tunnel had. Tuor looked young again, steering as she handled the sails. This journey was worth it for that alone.
He’d even begun to teach her how to sail. It was different from the swan ships she’d occasionally been on, partly because she was in control and not just a passenger, but followed the same principles. But she finally understood the Telerin refusal to give the Noldor their ships. To sail alone, with nothing but the waves and the weather to contend with-- it was freedom.
She looked over at Tuor and laughed for the sheer joy of it.
B2MeM Challenge: o65 Women of the Silmarillion (women of Gondolin)
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Idril
Pairings: None
Summary: Idril plans for Gondolin’s future.
It was stupid to ignore a Vala’s warning. Which is why she’d spent much of her free time studying maps of Gondolin and the surrounding mountains. Idril sighed. It would be difficult-- and break laws-- but it had to be done. She had to build a tunnel beneath the plain itself, ending close to the northern pass Cirith Thoronath.
It could be constructed, she’d discovered. But those who would design and build it must be handpicked by her, to keep word from getting to Turgon and Maeglin. It would be difficult, but she knew that the tunnel would be needed.
Sail
B2MeM Challenge: o65 Of the Sea (sailor
Format: Double drabble
Genre: General
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Idril, Tuor
Pairings: Idril/Tuor
Summary: Idril and Tuor sail West.
It had been centuries since Idril had been on the Sea. Tuor’s ship was mighty and well-built, but she worried.
How could she not? She was an Exile and her husband a Man. It would be so very easy for the Valar to never let them land, not even on Tol Eressëa, where no one lived. They didn’t know what defenses would be arrayed against them. They knew nothing save that the Valar would not be pleased with them.
And yet, she couldn’t imagine being anywhere else, sailing on a ship with her love. It felt right, just like building the tunnel had. Tuor looked young again, steering as she handled the sails. This journey was worth it for that alone.
He’d even begun to teach her how to sail. It was different from the swan ships she’d occasionally been on, partly because she was in control and not just a passenger, but followed the same principles. But she finally understood the Telerin refusal to give the Noldor their ships. To sail alone, with nothing but the waves and the weather to contend with-- it was freedom.
She looked over at Tuor and laughed for the sheer joy of it.
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Date: 2019-01-27 03:02 am (UTC)I loved that when she and Tuor were sailing toward the western shores and only when she felt the freedom that comes with being on the wide open sea, did she seem to realize how much of a prison Gondolin had been, how much of a prisoner she had been. There was just a hint of it there, unspoken, no matter how much she had loved her father and the great city. Also the freedom from all that had taken place in ME, I think, too.
Much was expressed and hinted at, between the lines, in these drabbles and that can be a difficult thing to accomplish, but you have done a wonderful job of it.
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Date: 2019-01-27 01:16 pm (UTC)