Plot bunnies. Nuzgul. DUCK!!

[thrihyrne]

EDIT. I'm an idiot. Have fixed this post.

I have two lingering Ardaverse stories that I'm working on. I feel as though I've abandoned Middle-Earth for Harry Potterdom, and then, on around the fiftieth time I've listened to "Steer by the Stars" on [no surprise] one of Jen's compilation CDs, I realized that there's a story there, inspired by it. From either Tar-Meneldur's son's POV (Aldarion), or his daughter-in-law Erendis, the focus of the first part of 'Celestial Quartet' that I wrote last fall. All Tolkien Unfinished Tales, all the way. Bound to be bleak, as he (the son) keeps leaving Numenor to go sailing to M-E, but if anyone were to sail by the stars, and it not be King Elentirmo, it would be his Aldarion who leaves his very resentful wife behind. Her choice, though, as he keeps inviting her along, and she keeps resisting.

*intrigued*

Ugh. Off to write.

BTW, the lovely writer llembas, used to go by palarran, the ship built by Aldarion.

Really off to write now.

Instead had long, drawn-out conversation with Mr. Thev about how my life is a mess. No writing. Took today off.

Dedicated to Jen. Who is fabulous.

(and she still is)

Comments

[fileg.livejournal.com]

I thought Aldarion's boat was Númerrámar, the Wings of the West?

addendum to addendum

[edrys.livejournal.com]

(LJ says I use too many words :-p)

Erendis's ultimate pity-party has always irked me a bit, not that I don't feel for her, being left alone as often as she was (been there). But she could have gone with him - and he did ask her to do so, on more than one occasion. And if she would not, or could not go with him on his voyages, she still could have made a real life for herself there in Númenor. But instead she chose to become bitter and allowed that bitterness to consume her. I live with someone like that, someone who has shrunk, become stagnant and poisoned with bitterness over a past that I had no part in, and that attitude has really strained our relationship. So I guess I don't have a lot of sympathy for Erendis. *sorry*

[llembas.livejournal.com]

*hugs then stares enthralled at all the wonderfully geeky comments about Aldarion*

Hope your day off was spent imagining all possible wonderful futures (of which I know you're going to have one, the trouble is deciding which future to pick) and not spent feeling depressed. There must be something in the air this year that's making everyone re-evaluate their lives. Or is it just a horrible stage that starts in the late twenties and lasts through the 30s? ;)