Tolkien Fan Fiction
Tolkien Fan Fiction
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B2MEM 2011 fics
By:Dwimordene
16
Love in other languages

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Prompt: Bree: Hobbits are well known for their gift-giving traditions. Write a story or poem in which the exchange of gifts is featured, or use "gifting" as a theme for a piece of art.

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He'd come to teach, to struggle and to save. Yet giving wasn't straightforward – one had first to be given.

Pallando hadn't expected gifts, but Children were prodigious! He found 'his' people ardent, violent, fractiously pious, wounded, passionate – desperately desirous of courageous, all-giving love.

Unbearable, his fiery brother's vicious perversion of that desire!

Yet even Sauron had had first to be given their language: their yearning for wholeness, for god-like union with God in life's grey years.

As they gave, so gave Pallando, testifying:

For frail flesh, to be living flame is to live where God dwells: patiently in each other...

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Building off of “False Fire,” fleshing out a little of Esteven's many-times-removed ancestral background.

Pallando is one of the Blue Wizards sent 'East'. I had him veer south eventually and settle in with the Haradrim. See "The Istari" in Unfinished Tales.