Medium Dawn Felagund of the Fountain

This story has actually been posted for a few weeks over on the SWG archive, but I was so busy with real life stuff and wrapping up the SWG birthday event that I never got a chance to crosspost it more widely. Since my journal has long been the place to find all of my fiction, though, then it belongs here. So here it is. :)

"Reembodied" was written for the SWG birthday event. It fit about three of the challenges (Cuivienen, Songfic That Wasn't, and What Would Socrates Say?), although it was written directly in response to the Songfic That Wasn't challenge. Here is the summary given on the SWG:

Tata was said to be the first of the Noldor to awaken at Cuivienen, yet the histories never speak of him again. Uncomfortable and indecisive as a leader, he nonetheless rejects the summons of the Valar to Valinor, recognizing a fundamental wrong in the ideas they preach. This is the story of his life.

This story is definitely heretical. The story of the Great Journey comes to us from the perspective of the Eldar, those who accepted the summons to Valinor. Through them, we hear all sorts of awful accusation and speculation about those who chose to remain behind: the Avari, Moriquendi, or Dark Elves. Yet these Elves doubtlessly had their own perspectives and good reasons for their choice, and they likely had their own accusations against and speculations about the motives of those who chose to abandon their birth land to follow a god into the lap of luxury. More notes on the ideas and "canon" underlying the story follow in the author's notes. On the SWG, I've rated the story Teens for some mild violence and sexual content, as well as thematic content that appeals to a more mature audience.

( Reembodied )