Title: Distillation
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Restraint
Bingo prompt: Mountain
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go again to the amazing Silmarillion writers. Indeed this is Elf Hell, nor am I out of it…
Summary: Silence is also Song — Maglor reflects in poetry




Stilled vibration is yet song, though it sing only in memory
Stilled drumheads beat, stilled strings resound,
Stilled horns call, stilled pipes and voices ring,
Stilled breath, stilled hands, stilled hearts once known remain

Howsoever silenced, stopped, restrained;
For all songs, sounds, screams are Song
The Music that is, was, will yet be —
Heard that music is.

The groan of mountains rising up,
The hiss of waves eroding shores
The boom of wind on precipice
The roar of fire raging high

Are also Song - or so it seems - I must believe, have hope,
Endure: For without Song, what am I?