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la_samtyrI just found this yesterday, and it just begs to be shared. It's a modern 'retelling' of The Silm over at AO3, and the link is here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/127644/chapters/180781
Here are just a couple of snippets from the work:
"And Eru spake unto the Ainur, and he did say: "Thou shalt make the music of the spheres, and it shall be beautiful."
And for a great time they did make the music of the spheres (even though there really weren't any yet), and it was beautiful. And then Melkor, the wisest of the Ainur, did think to himself, "That note would be much better if it were a *sharp*." And thus Melkor did alter the music of the spheres, and he deemed it good.
The other Ainur stood amazed at his audacity. Some shunned him, but many were caught up in his new melody, and soon Melkor and his followers were a band to rival Duke Ellington himself."
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Finwë, King of the Noldor, ... and his sons were Fingolfin, Finarfin, and Fëanor, who is the important one. (Observe how all the important people in this story have umlauts, possibly because Tolkein hated typesetters.)
Here are just a couple of snippets from the work:
"And Eru spake unto the Ainur, and he did say: "Thou shalt make the music of the spheres, and it shall be beautiful."
And for a great time they did make the music of the spheres (even though there really weren't any yet), and it was beautiful. And then Melkor, the wisest of the Ainur, did think to himself, "That note would be much better if it were a *sharp*." And thus Melkor did alter the music of the spheres, and he deemed it good.
The other Ainur stood amazed at his audacity. Some shunned him, but many were caught up in his new melody, and soon Melkor and his followers were a band to rival Duke Ellington himself."
~*~
Finwë, King of the Noldor, ... and his sons were Fingolfin, Finarfin, and Fëanor, who is the important one. (Observe how all the important people in this story have umlauts, possibly because Tolkein hated typesetters.)
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