Title: Not Indissoluble
Fandom: Silmarillion, Original
Challenge: Medicine
Other prompt: N/A
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: A vaccine against fell disease



It's not the herbs that stem the tide
Although they aid: soothe fever, ease distress
Neither distillation, sublimation,
Tincture nor extraction are enough
Even if together they help some to pull through

Nor are minerals, mechanicals the cure
Though they may breathe for one awhile
Stabilize another, air enrich with needful things --
Keep all clean, craft armor, veils and shields
They stand fast against the spread of woe

No, Aule and Yavanna both, together hold
The keys to the uncrowning of this affliction fell
Synthesis, analysis, metamorphosis
Anvil and alembic, disparate and combined
Hope grows apace with every dart applied.