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To inaugurate their 20th year, the Silmarillion Writers' Guild is doing a Jubilee Challenge, and I am doing the 30-day Character Study challenge from Nov 2017. I'll be posting thoughts on the daily challenges here and sharing any fanworks I created over on my SWG.
Day 3 Prompt: Strong Points, Part One. Think about at least three strengths of your character - talents they were born with, skills they have learned, positive character traits… Write a scene in which your character really shines at something.
Day 3 Prompt: Strong Points, Part One. Think about at least three strengths of your character - talents they were born with, skills they have learned, positive character traits… Write a scene in which your character really shines at something.
It is not hard to find strong points for Galadriel. Tolkien writes very positively about her, in much as they same way as he writes about her brother Finrod. It almost seems as though she can do no wrong (she can, and I am already thinking head to the Weak Points prompt, but even when she does mess up Tolkien has a way of making it very forgivable). When she does make mistakes, it's contrasted with the far worse mistakes of her kin.
So, I made a list of some strengths teased out of my readings for Day 1:
I chose to focus my fic for this day on her insight, with a hint of her athleticism.
Tolkien wrote in a letter that she was of "Amazonian disposition" (of course, this is part of an explanation for her name, relating to the crown she braided in her hair into when she competed in athletic events) and in HCG she is "a match for both the loremasters and athletes of the Eldar". I love this detail about her and was glad to be able to incorporate it.
On insight, I was inspired specifically by this passage that I quoted in my Day 2 post:
From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds of others, but judged them with mercy and understanding, and she withheld her goodwill from none save only Fëanor.
You can read the fic on the Silmarillion Writers' Guild:
So, I made a list of some strengths teased out of my readings for Day 1:
- athletic
- thoughtful
- diplomatic
- insightful
- curious
- practical
- devoted
I chose to focus my fic for this day on her insight, with a hint of her athleticism.
Tolkien wrote in a letter that she was of "Amazonian disposition" (of course, this is part of an explanation for her name, relating to the crown she braided in her hair into when she competed in athletic events) and in HCG she is "a match for both the loremasters and athletes of the Eldar". I love this detail about her and was glad to be able to incorporate it.
On insight, I was inspired specifically by this passage that I quoted in my Day 2 post:
From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds of others, but judged them with mercy and understanding, and she withheld her goodwill from none save only Fëanor.
You can read the fic on the Silmarillion Writers' Guild:
Insight
Rated G, ~900 words
Angrod & Galadriel
