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[dreamflower]

Well, it's the last day of Back to Middle-earth month, and here are my last two entries for the prompts by there_n_back. I am afraid I am not going to attempt the special characters. It was all I could do to get these two finished:

Rating: G
Summary: …Yavanna takes up a new duty...(a drabble)

Y: LIKE A YAWNING YAVANNA

She studied them: they had not the grace of Elves, nor the fierceness of Men, nor the grim dignity of Aulë‘s Dwarves. Clearly they were of the Secondborn, their fëar destined to fly beyond the kenning of the Valar, to a fate unknown. Yet they had something Elvish about them, in the shape of their ears, the way they seemed attuned to the earth and to growing things. Why had He placed them under *her* protection?

One of them yawned, placing a small brown hand over his mouth, and she yawned in response. She smiled. Ah, but they *were* charming.


Rating: G
Summary: A climactic battle…(a dribble)

Z: LIKE ZOOMING AROUND ZIRAKZIGIL

Up the endless stair, out of the gloom of darkness
Two warriors battled their way into the blinding light
Of day. One dark as death, flaming red;
The other with the light of Anor.
Storm raged, thunder clashed, lightning fell.
The Darkness was cast down,
And the Light prevailed.
All was calm,
Silence reigned:
Silvertine.

Comments

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Wow.... just wow!

[dreamflower]

*grin* Thank you!

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Both of these are just lovely!

[dreamflower]

Thanks! 8-)

[garnet-took.livejournal.com]

I like both of them, but the first one is truly my favorite. Hmmm, wonder why that could be?

[dreamflower]

Yes, I wonder...*giggle*

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

oooh, I really really liked the first one a lot!

[dreamflower]

Thank you! 8-)

[shirebound]

I'm so proud of you and amazed and awed that you finished these, Dreamflower! What an accomplishment. Each is wonderful.

Praises you with great praise!!

[dreamflower]

*blushes* Thank you, Shirebound. I'm kind of stubborn that way--when I start something, I have to finish it, no matter what.

I am glad that you think they are good.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

*applause* Both of these are lovely. What a marvelous accomplishment, Dreamflower. You can be justly proud of yourself.

[dreamflower]

Thank you! I'm just stubborn, I guess. But I'm glad that they mostly came out well--it's hard to know when writing from a prompt.

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

The drabble is so cute. I love hobbits! :D

And the poem is wonderful.

[dreamflower]

I ♥ hobbits!

Thank you!

[slender-sail.livejournal.com]

Oh but Yavanna had already met the darling hobbits (Goldberry?....)
:)

[dreamflower]

Oh this is much earlier than the Quest--these are, I suppose what you might call "proto-hobbits", in the dawn of "hobbit-history".

Goldberry as Yavanna? Hmm...interesting theory. I've always thought of Goldberry as one of the Maia--more along the lines of Gandalf or Radagast--than one of the Valar. And perhaps she would have had some connection to Ulmo as well as Yavanna. But it's quite likely that if we could ask JRRT, she might turn out to be something quite different than any of us think.

[slender-sail.livejournal.com]

Oh, they are *proto* hobbits! That makes sense. Sorry, I just had this image in my head, of hobbits arriving in Valinor and those there reacting like... 'oh, we've got something new here!' The response-yawn was adorable!

Yes, well I can't find the essay right now, but I have to say it convinced me, because it wasn't just focusing on the one (either Tom or Goldberry) but the two of them together, both hinting at the other's identity (that sort of insight is always more, while still remaining beyond analysis). Aulë not having *any* hint of possessiveness about him, and so on and so forth, while Goldberry's imagery being close to Yavanna's. Where what JRRT would say is concerned, problem is he wouldn't say anything, preferring to keep the riddle there; and to be quite honest with you, I'm really not very interested in one writer's deliberate screening of the information, if you see what I mean. JRRT screened a lot of his own writing so if I were to ask him, too many problems would arise, also based on my own ability to ask the right questions, for the right motives. But that isn't to say, that this information doesn't "exist", because the hobbits lived through it, especially Sam & Frodo eventually "got it" (F dreamed of Valinor in G's house, and G appears as one of his better ideals, he appears love-struck in her presence, and his ideals seem to reach all the way to high Queens; which is why I believe it could be true that Goldberry is one of them - but I can't explain right now, how I got to the conclusion about the high Queens, lol - but it's there...)