#beruthiel

Berúthiel, the 12th Queen of Gondor

Tagged by @jaz-the-bard <3 love u!

How it works: I search for the words assigned to me by the person who tagged me and share the relevant snippets. I then choose four words for others to search in their own WIP(s).

I'm gonna use my Berúthiel WIP! I would like to show it off a bit.

My words: rise, need, shadow, number

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Rise: no instances in this WIP!

Need:

Still she could not always stay within her nurse’s protection; she needed her respites from any kind of company or attention, so by necessity she grew more adept at finding sitting-places where she would not be noticed by anyone who happened to come near. Cabinets and garden shrubs and old forgotten rooms became her friends; she would sit snug behind shelter and watch, through greenery or keyhole, as the world went by.

Shadow: (cw for gore on this one!)

“Oh!” said her nurse. “Do you mean – but they are wicked people, child – criminals and misbelievers and barbarous foemen. They ought to suffer. No one would do the like to you – not in a thousand years!” “Yes, they would,” Tamar whispered, and did not know how to put into words the truth of what she was saying: that every time, every time, she felt the knife in the sacrifice’s breast slide like a shadow into her own; that she knew how her blood would run from her in rivulets if spilled, because it would run the same way theirs did; that one heart looked the same as another held up in bloodied hands, and if it might as well be hers as theirs, then what difference did it make which bosom it happened to be torn from?

Number:

Tamar watched them until they went around the corner out of sight. Then she crept into the room they had taken the bags and things out of. Inside, just as she had suspected, she found a lot of shelves and a number of barrels, the gaps between which made marvelous crannies to sit in.

by Melesta (@melestasflight)

Tevildo keeps getting reborn as an ordinary house cat. He is not pleased. Three connected drabbles inspired by three pieces of art as a tribute to the Prince of Cats.

General, No Archive Warnings

TOLKIEN LADIES: Berúthiel