Title: At The Mingling
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Challenge: Pen or Pin
Bingo prompt: Doorway
Rating: G
Length: 30”, 48 words
Content notes: Glass, metal, resin, plastic, silk cord. Head-pins, ear-wires.
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking. Tanka is a Japanese form, similar to haiku, in English generally done in five lines: 5 7 5 7 7. Head-pins are wire lengths with one end having a knob or flat circle a bead can sit on. They are often used for earrings.
Summary: Gold and silver, warm and cool, in two tanka, earrings, and a necklace.

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Gold and silver touch
At the mingling of the Lights
A bright Tree-twilight
No word, pen, or brush can hold
Living light these eyes once saw

Doorway to a past
Now lost, only memory
Blended, splendid sight
Golden edges, silvered shade
Seen now only in a Star

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