Title: Negative Space -- Tirion After the Exile
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Negative Space
Other prompt:
Rating: G
Length: 80
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie & AnnEllspethRaven for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Nine-tenths of the Noldor joined the Exile. A look at the space they left behind


The absences are telling:
Blank places there should be
People, portraits, living things
Instead of space, empty

Empty chairs and empty rooms
Empty beds and quiet looms
Empty arms by Namo’s dooms

Once-busy streets are silent
Once-ceaseless forges cold
No laughing youths now frolic
In silver light or gold

Empty houses, empty halls
Empty workshops, barren walls
Empty bonds when Mandos calls

But one in ten remaining
Too few for a city
The un-filled shapes grow larger
Echo little pity