Such lamps as once shone in Khazad-dum, by Himring (non-challenge)

[hhimring]

Author: Himring

Source / Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Rating: G

Warnings: none

Characters: Celebrimbor (reference to Narvi)

Disclaimer: Celebrimbor, Narvi, and Khazad-dum are all Tolkien's, but this little incident is not.

Summary: Celebrimbor makes a gift for Narvi.

Celebrimbor put the finishing touches on the simple filigree and lit the small lantern for the first time to test the effect.

Amethyst and rose, light filtered through delicate runes etched into its five panes.

Lights a-plenty Khazad-dum had already, certainly, magnificent dwarf-made ones, in shining lamps of crystal hewn!

More were not needed, especially no contributions from elves, some grumpy elder might mutter, but Narvi would disagree, Celebrimbor hoped.

An anniversary like theirs—twenty years since their first meeting—deserved to be celebrated with a gift and Celebrimbor had just the right nook in Narvi’s favourite cave in mind.

A/N: You will probably recognize two allusions to canon quotations from Gimli. The five initial letters spell out "calma", the elvish word for lamp.

Comments

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

nope, i didn't recognize anything, shame on me 😂
but i do agree - special anniversaries are to be celebrated this way 💜

[hhimring]

Thank you, Ellynn! Truly, anniversaries like that need to be honoured, I am glad you agree!

It was in no way meant to be a test, I was just worried about putting off people with long notes!

Here is the explanation:

The title alludes to Gimli's speech about the Glittering Caves in LOTR; apart from referring to the lamps of Moria, this passage also gave me the idea that Celebrimbor's lamp is intended to light a particular location in a favourite cave. The text of this drabble also contains a quotation from Gimli's "Song of Durin" (shining lamps of crystal hewn).

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

thanks 😉

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Very clever, and I know Narvi would welcome this lamp.

- Erulisse (one L)

[hhimring]

Thank you, Erulisse! Glad you agree about Narvi!

[fredbassett]

I caught both of the allusions but not the first letters. Very clever! Your also evoked the images of the lamps very well.

[hhimring]

I had got into the swing of doing the first letters for a different prompt set over at SWG, so it sort of came naturally by that point.

Glad to hear that it evoked the images of the lamps!