Quanta Sarmë
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nathair_nimheA fic I wrote for Fandom Giftbox 2017 (can't be bothered to dig up the link to that). ETA 11/10/2024: Now slightly edited.
Rating: Gen
Words: Around 330
Content Warning: None
Summary: Celebrimbor completes the project for the Doors of Dúrin
The newest members of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain always make surprised faces when they notice the tiny eight-pointed stars he carves into everything he makes. The Sindar among them may look offended, too, and stare disapprovingly at him as if expecting him to erase all of them if they keep glowering at him long enough.
Celebrimbor felt self-conscious about it at first, but not any longer. All he's been able to build in Eregion, the teachings he passes on, every single object shaped by his hands - it all has its root in his grandfather.
He tells people as much when they ask. 'Did your grandfather really teach you?', they ask. His reply - of course, he was a great teacher - is usually met with skepticism. 'What good is your grandfather's legacy to you now, at any rate?', many add. The answer to that is a bit more evasive.
He can't tell people that he always liked his grandfather's vision to create an Aman away from Valinor. They certainly wouldn't like to know that they walk the streets of that vision. He won't tell them that the mode of writing the Gwaith-i-Mírdain use was created over three days in a cold tent on the very edge of death by Celebrimbor and his grandfather together. Many pride themselves in the beauty and precision of that script that was born of Fëanor's ideas.
He heaves a sigh. The charcoal has stained his whole hand black while he rolled it between his fingers, lost in his musings. He grips it now. There are things he can't and won't tell, not in words. He steadies his hand and draws the eight-pointed star of Fëanor in the very middle of the Doors of Durin, under the seven stars of the seven Dwarvish clans, and under the inscription traced in the script of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain.
Some people will probably hate him for this. The Dwarves, he's fairly sure, won't mind. The rest can make whatever they want of his choice.
*
quanta sarmë means "full script", i.e. a way of writing Quenya where the vowels are written with independent letters, rather than as diacritics above the consonants. Fëanor came up with a quanta sarmë for the use of scholars. Now the script Celebrimbor uses on the Doors - which is called mode of Beleriand - is a quanta sarmë too, and I headcanon that Celebrimbor and Fëanor came up with it together as the very first adaptation of the tengwar to Sindarin.
Rating: Gen
Words: Around 330
Content Warning: None
Summary: Celebrimbor completes the project for the Doors of Dúrin
The newest members of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain always make surprised faces when they notice the tiny eight-pointed stars he carves into everything he makes. The Sindar among them may look offended, too, and stare disapprovingly at him as if expecting him to erase all of them if they keep glowering at him long enough.
Celebrimbor felt self-conscious about it at first, but not any longer. All he's been able to build in Eregion, the teachings he passes on, every single object shaped by his hands - it all has its root in his grandfather.
He tells people as much when they ask. 'Did your grandfather really teach you?', they ask. His reply - of course, he was a great teacher - is usually met with skepticism. 'What good is your grandfather's legacy to you now, at any rate?', many add. The answer to that is a bit more evasive.
He can't tell people that he always liked his grandfather's vision to create an Aman away from Valinor. They certainly wouldn't like to know that they walk the streets of that vision. He won't tell them that the mode of writing the Gwaith-i-Mírdain use was created over three days in a cold tent on the very edge of death by Celebrimbor and his grandfather together. Many pride themselves in the beauty and precision of that script that was born of Fëanor's ideas.
He heaves a sigh. The charcoal has stained his whole hand black while he rolled it between his fingers, lost in his musings. He grips it now. There are things he can't and won't tell, not in words. He steadies his hand and draws the eight-pointed star of Fëanor in the very middle of the Doors of Durin, under the seven stars of the seven Dwarvish clans, and under the inscription traced in the script of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain.
Some people will probably hate him for this. The Dwarves, he's fairly sure, won't mind. The rest can make whatever they want of his choice.
*
quanta sarmë means "full script", i.e. a way of writing Quenya where the vowels are written with independent letters, rather than as diacritics above the consonants. Fëanor came up with a quanta sarmë for the use of scholars. Now the script Celebrimbor uses on the Doors - which is called mode of Beleriand - is a quanta sarmë too, and I headcanon that Celebrimbor and Fëanor came up with it together as the very first adaptation of the tengwar to Sindarin.
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