Fandom: SILMARILLION
Pairing: Feanor/Nerdanel
Author on LJ:
tehtaAuthor Website: Tehta on ff.netWhy this must be read: I thought I'd round off my whistlestop tour of the First Age (& before) with some humour. There's quite a bit of
Silmarillion-based humour, but much of it requires the reader to have poked around in the more obscure corners of canon in order to really get the jokes. 'Sand and Flame', a cunning retelling of a well-known fairy tale, should make sense without much more than a smattering of Silm knowledge.
There are many things to enjoy in this short tale: the angst-lite characterisations of Feanor & Nerdanel (they get more than their fair share of angst in canon, but many ficcers insist on doling out still more), the clever way that Tehta's used the fairy-story framework, the incongruous flickers of Jane Austen (I kept picturing Feanor as Mr Darcy), the guest appearance by just the right Fairy Godmother ... not to mention one or two one-liners to die for.
(Set in Aman so watch out for the Quenya names. Most of them are obvious, but Feanor's young half-brothers Nolofinwe & Arafinwe are Fingolfin & Finarfin. Oh, and Laurelin is one of the two Trees: an early lighting system for Aman, they operated on an overlapping shift system.)
( A snippet ) Sand and Flame