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Yesterday was official Planting Day in the House of Felagund, so I spent about six hours outside in the garden, doing various chores to prepare and plant the non-hardy plants. My mind wanders where the stars are strange during such times, and I wrote a poem ... or rather, fragments of a poem. Then I was settling down later to read and thwap! said poem smacked me in the side of the head and demanded to be written. So I did.

The summary on the SWG and AO3: Fëanor's death and its aftermath, as told by the Fëanorian bards and as it truly happened. A free-verse poem.

Speaking of, it is also posted on the SWG and AO3.

Notes on its inspiration are at the end. I'd love to hear what people think of it.

The Death of Fëanáro )
For those of you who don't know, Akallabeth in August is going on at the SWG with at least one new story/artwork/poem/thingy each day, following the chronology of the Akallabeth. And I will gladly vouch for the fact that some awesome stuff has been posted.

But, in the course of putting the project together, not all of the topics we wanted entries for were claimed, so I've been sort of filling in the blanks on an as-needed basis and thought I might as well post my AinA entries here as well.

"Seek the Horizon, Numenor's Sons" was meant to be an ancient Numenorean sea-chant. "Brothers" is a fixed-length piece about the division of the Numenoreans into King's Men and Elf-friends. Neither is adult-rated, although "Brothers" discusses death, so I gave it a Teens rating on the SWG archive.

Seek the Horizon, Númenor's Sons ) Brothers )
The following Silmarillion-inspired poem (fanpome?) was written for the quote of the month on the Silmarillion Writers' Guild: Melkor and Finwë battle in Formenos after the Darkening of Valinor.

The form is a sestina, which originated in the 12th-century with the French troubadours. The sestina uses six six-line stanzas plus a triad at the end. The end-words of each line rotates between stanzas, and the triad includes all six end-words. The form is more complicated than that, but if you want to know more, that's what Wikipedia is for. :)

Comments--both praise and critique--here or on the SWG are welcome!

On SWG, the poem is rated Teens for violence.

Seven Falls )

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