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Title : He Keeps All Arda in Thought
Author : Himring
Fandom : Silmarillion
Rating : PG
Characters : Ulmo
Disclaimer : Ulmo is Tolkien's Vala, of course, and he canonically does not lose interest in Middle-earth or its inhabitants.
Spoilers : Vague allusions to canon events.
Summary: The Sea connects, as well as separates. Ulmo counts on it.

Arda was made up of so many things, so many rich and strange ingredients—but it would have been less, if they all had remained separate from each other, tidily arrayed, as if encased in glass bottles in a cabinet. What is more, they needed not only to be poured out and stirred in deliberately, but allowed to mingle freely.

Ulmo watched waves wash in and out. Even if nobody was allowed to cross it, the sea still connected Aman and Middle-earth. He need disobey no command, merely let the waters do what they would. Middle-earth was not cut off.

A/N: Written for the SWG Insta-Drabbling session, in response to two image prompts, one of them Joseph Cornell's Untitled (Pharmacy), the other a photo of water gushing in among green hills. Title adapted from a sentence in the Valaquenta.

Date: 2020-05-23 07:31 pm (UTC)
shirebound: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shirebound
There's a calm feeling to this, an infinite patience and larger viewpoint. Nice!

Date: 2020-05-24 02:35 am (UTC)

Date: 2020-05-25 05:37 pm (UTC)
fredbassett: (raccoons - gutter)
From: [personal profile] fredbassett
I love this and the connection you've drawn here!

Date: 2020-05-27 01:57 pm (UTC)
liadt: Ohatsu and Tokubei with their backs to the camera hold a strip of material between them above their heads (Dragon & Dolphin)
From: [personal profile] liadt
Nice!

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