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tolkien100Title : Under the Trees
Author : Himring
Fandom/Source : The Silmarillion, History of Middle-earth
Rating : PG13
Characters : Salgant, Maeglin
Disclaimer : Tolkien's characters (no offence intended, no monetary recompense received).
Spoilers/Warnings : For the chapter ‘Of Maeglin’ (some angst)
Summary : Trees of Nan Elmoth and trees of Gondolin. Continuing the Maeglin & Salgant sequence. (2 x 100)
He trusted the trees at first. Like a true child of twilight he played among their roots; they were both protection and company. It was only later that their dark branches began to lie like prison bars across his mind—like his father’s grasp, controlling, confining, unable to let go.
Maeglin stood peering up into the radiance of Belthil and Glingal, glittering work of his uncle’s hands, fashioned with the Noldorin skill he had come here to learn. It bothered him that they were trees. Out of sight, but inescapable, hovered the shadow of his own trees, black now, unforgiving.
Salgant, who was serious enough about art to forget awkwardness, said, squinting upward: ‘Brilliant, of course. Only, they are memories—neither the real thing nor something entirely in themselves. You feel the lack; sometimes I just want to do something like string a clothes line between them.
It was strange for the Sindar, at first, coming here from Nevrast to live among Noldorin memories, I think. You might like Finrod’s work better, if I could show you Nargothrond.’
Salgant bought Maeglin a tree in a bowl, stunted in its growth, an expensive item: ‘You see? Regardless, its leaves are green.’
A/N: "Child of Twilight" is the meaning of the name Lomion given to Maeglin by Aredhel. Belthil and Glingal are images of the Trees of Valinor that Turgon made.
Author : Himring
Fandom/Source : The Silmarillion, History of Middle-earth
Rating : PG13
Characters : Salgant, Maeglin
Disclaimer : Tolkien's characters (no offence intended, no monetary recompense received).
Spoilers/Warnings : For the chapter ‘Of Maeglin’ (some angst)
Summary : Trees of Nan Elmoth and trees of Gondolin. Continuing the Maeglin & Salgant sequence. (2 x 100)
He trusted the trees at first. Like a true child of twilight he played among their roots; they were both protection and company. It was only later that their dark branches began to lie like prison bars across his mind—like his father’s grasp, controlling, confining, unable to let go.
Maeglin stood peering up into the radiance of Belthil and Glingal, glittering work of his uncle’s hands, fashioned with the Noldorin skill he had come here to learn. It bothered him that they were trees. Out of sight, but inescapable, hovered the shadow of his own trees, black now, unforgiving.
Salgant, who was serious enough about art to forget awkwardness, said, squinting upward: ‘Brilliant, of course. Only, they are memories—neither the real thing nor something entirely in themselves. You feel the lack; sometimes I just want to do something like string a clothes line between them.
It was strange for the Sindar, at first, coming here from Nevrast to live among Noldorin memories, I think. You might like Finrod’s work better, if I could show you Nargothrond.’
Salgant bought Maeglin a tree in a bowl, stunted in its growth, an expensive item: ‘You see? Regardless, its leaves are green.’
A/N: "Child of Twilight" is the meaning of the name Lomion given to Maeglin by Aredhel. Belthil and Glingal are images of the Trees of Valinor that Turgon made.
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Date: 2018-03-01 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-03 12:51 pm (UTC)Gondolin does sound a bit over-ornamental and solemn and in need of more clothes lines to me, sometimes!
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Date: 2018-03-01 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-03 12:52 pm (UTC)I'm glad you liked the mixed feelings here!
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Date: 2018-03-05 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-06 12:19 am (UTC)I was intrigued both by Siadea's take on him and by Tehta's (although they are quite the opposite of each other)!
I do think he deserves another look.