Aearwen's Little Bits - Training

[aearwen2]

And this week's drabble, which in turn has sparked a double-drabble that will appear here one of these weekends:



"Now remember, my son, what you are about to see is a treasure left us from the days of the Old Kings. If, later on, you have questions about it, best you find time to ask me privately. You do not discuss this with your sisters, nor even Elboron - is that clear?"

"Yes, Adar."

Elessar smiled at the sober, respectful tone. At twenty-five, Eldarion was already well on his way to proving himself more than worthy. And when the time came, knowing this skill would be essential.

He pulled aside the silk cover. "This, my son, is a palantir…"

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Very cool and kind of creepy. Of course, I am trying to figure out which one this is. I lost track, but seem to recall the one that Denethor used was unusable. So this one would be the one from Saruman? Or am I falling into movie verse--it's a crime how forgetful I am of LotR canon. (I used to know it so much better than Silmarillion canon.)

[nelyo-russandol.livejournal.com]

He, he, my current frame of mind brought to me other "Old Kings" in a different world...

It must be the one from Saruman, unless they are both going to be treated by the sight of Denethor's hands being burnt. You have not fallen into movie!verse, don't worry.

Aearwen, you have made the unveiling of the palantir a suitably solemn father-son secret on the heir reaching his majority (I love the idea of Aragorn creating his own kingly traditions, given he had to start a bit from scratch!)

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean, I have at least three vivid fantasy worlds in my head feeding off one another at the moment. I am re-reading LotR for the first time in three years. (I never went so long without reading it since I was a kid at the University. I used to re-read it religiously every year for decades. But somewhere over the last three years, I got caught up in the myriad of picky details of the HoMe, etc. And broke the habit. Need to re-visit my roots.)

[nelyo-russandol.livejournal.com]

I am starting again with Swordspoint, and will read all of them in a row now that I managed to get to TFOTK.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I adore Swordspoint still after everything else of hers and Delia's I have read. I just read the first book in the Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Legacy" series and I enjoyed it. It looks like it was a lot more work than Kushner's books, but, sigh, it's not as brilliant. I kept stumbling over parts where I thought--ah! EK did this first in Swordspoint and much better. A society where everybody is bisexual in particular.

Aearwen, apologies for highjacking your thread! I bet you never thought a drabble would send certain people off on an examination of contemporary fantasy.

[aearwen2.livejournal.com]

Not a problem!

I'm still trying to work my way through Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. NiRi turned me onto that one after I was disenchanted by the second season of "Legend of the Seeker." I'm with her tho - the protagonist cries too much in this thing.

I really should re-read LotR and the Silm. It's just about that time of year...

[tracey-claybon.livejournal.com]

Hi, Aearwen - I liked this drabble.

I wonder, though - would Aragorn introduce his other children to the Palantir, if later on in their lives? I'd think it'd be necessary, just in case of way-down-the-line succession issues. Eldarion and his successors down the line should know, but if sometthing happened to the main royal line, having a distaff royal line with that knowledge might prove useful hundreds of years later - right?

[tracey-claybon.livejournal.com]

You two gave me some good suggestions of new materiels for reading - I have been looking at reading something more than just paranormal romances, Mercedes Lackey/Elizabeth Moon/cooking books and computer programming texts of late - I'd been eyeing the Kushiel books, so thank you both for the recommendation there.