Title: Red and Silver
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Challenge: Jewelry
Bingo Prompt: Ghosts and Gore
Rating: G
Length: 40 inches, 100 words
Content notes: Wire, milk-glass, red glass, silver, hematite
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Hope and horror both in red and silver

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Feanor’s colors were red and silver, later apostrophized as gore and ghosts, blood and houseless spirits, rather than the fire of making, the substance of Arda becoming new, useful, wondrous things by application of that flame, skill and will. Lamps and banners, swords and graven stars.

The blood and ghosts were true as well, though never intended as symbol. Nor was the injury and death dealt on one side only. Reaved they are of works, of kin, of victory, of life: but the tale is not yet ended.

Hope too is red and silver, flame and starlight, sunrise after storm.

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