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crack_van2005-01-05 02:21 am
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Alqualonde by Joan Milligan (PG-13)
Fandom: SILMARILLION
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joannie_m
Author Website: The GrayWays (tho' I can't make the links work); her stories are also at fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:
Maglor is one of the most frequently-written Silmarillion characters. I think one of the reasons he fascinates writers is that he's a gifted musician & singer, forced by circumstances to live the life of a warrior. The destruction of the beautiful city of Alqualonde in Aman (the Paradise where the gods dwell), with the massacre of most of its inhabitants, is the first of several terrible deeds done by his family. Joan's moving & thought-provoking vignette asks what an artist might make of the aftermath of the massacre. The poetic writing style is used to good effect to contrast with the horror of the subject matter. A brief taster...
"Here was a wall that once stood strong, towering against the sky once lit with softer, gentler light, as eternal and proud as its builders, as gray as the endless sea. Once it was built to last by loving hands, and small plants had covered it, and enclosed behind it someone lived, someone sang and played and crafted, and wrote books. Maglor could smell the burned paper."
Alqualonde
[Edited to add ff.net link and LJ user info]
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:
joannie_mAuthor Website: The GrayWays (tho' I can't make the links work); her stories are also at fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:
Maglor is one of the most frequently-written Silmarillion characters. I think one of the reasons he fascinates writers is that he's a gifted musician & singer, forced by circumstances to live the life of a warrior. The destruction of the beautiful city of Alqualonde in Aman (the Paradise where the gods dwell), with the massacre of most of its inhabitants, is the first of several terrible deeds done by his family. Joan's moving & thought-provoking vignette asks what an artist might make of the aftermath of the massacre. The poetic writing style is used to good effect to contrast with the horror of the subject matter. A brief taster...
"Here was a wall that once stood strong, towering against the sky once lit with softer, gentler light, as eternal and proud as its builders, as gray as the endless sea. Once it was built to last by loving hands, and small plants had covered it, and enclosed behind it someone lived, someone sang and played and crafted, and wrote books. Maglor could smell the burned paper."
Alqualonde
[Edited to add ff.net link and LJ user info]