Title: Objects of love
Author: Dilly
Characters: Maedhros/Fingon, Curufin, Finrod/Amarië
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Tolkien's world, not mine.
Curufin's eyes were staring at him, clearer, and still.
“Let me relieve you of your burden, brother”, he said, with a voice of deceptive compassion. “You think you love him, with that sick and deviant love… But you don’t. It’s an idea you love, the idea of good, an idea which is actually in yourself. For if you didn’t bear it, you could not have recognized it.”
* * *
Now Finrod was assembling the gold and jewels he had brought from Valinor all around him as in a garland, and he made them grow and multiply, in the deep nest of Nargothrond.
Author: Dilly
Characters: Maedhros/Fingon, Curufin, Finrod/Amarië
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Tolkien's world, not mine.
Curufin's eyes were staring at him, clearer, and still.
“Let me relieve you of your burden, brother”, he said, with a voice of deceptive compassion. “You think you love him, with that sick and deviant love… But you don’t. It’s an idea you love, the idea of good, an idea which is actually in yourself. For if you didn’t bear it, you could not have recognized it.”
* * *
Now Finrod was assembling the gold and jewels he had brought from Valinor all around him as in a garland, and he made them grow and multiply, in the deep nest of Nargothrond.