Silmarillion: Fanfic: Stones and String

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Title: Stones and String
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Wrap
Other prompt: N/A
Rating: G
Length: 400
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: An ordinary letter send during the early Second Age


Stones and String

To: Lithluinel, Imladris, from Anglithiel, Copper-Ore street, Eregion —

I hope this finds you happy and busy, but not too busy. Are you done making your acquaintance with all the workshops and found some time to settle in to your rooms properly? In your last you were still camping out on a terrace. I cannot imagine that Lord Elrond (or Master Erestor, or milord Lindir) would have you out there by choice! And it’s Winter now. I hope you are comfortably warm and in out of the weather.

I made two necklaces today, red and mostly clear agate and jasper for one, with carved leaves, knotted on dark red silk cord, continuous. It has one of the leaves pendant in the center, with one of the slightly faceted jasper beads and five very small round agate beads in a loop at the bottom, so the cord goes down through the leaf and the one bead, then around and back up. It was interesting working out how best to make that work. I’m pretty happy with it.

The other one is a graduated set of basically oblong pieces of green stone with interesting inclusions and shading from very dark to almost sea-green. (Agate again, I think, not aventurine or chalcedony, though it might be one of the chryso-somethings. Dwarur would know) with the corners faceted to make lozenges on the faces, some silver spacer beads, and two different sizes and shapes of glass, one round and a translucent milky green-white, the other an opaque pale green roundel. I thought about doing this one in wire-work — thinking about the wire-wrapping verse, which I’ve put below — but wasn’t happy with the trial links I did, so I used the thick grey silk cord, and put fasteners on the ends, so it can be a necklace or a festoon. I made earrings to go with it. It all has a nice weight.

What have you been working on? I’ll write again when I have a more interesting project to report on! Write when you can.

All my love,
-A—

Here’s the wire-wrapping work verse — It's "Traditional Noldorin" of course, tune and words.

In and out, round about
Sing the strand into a curl
Light and tight and loose and stout
Set the gem within the swirl

Wrap and furl, wind and twirl
Over, under and around
Wire, plier, stone and pearl
Making simple and profound

Comments

[adafrog]

Good.