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finluithiel) wrote2007-04-17 10:45 am
finluithiel) wrote2007-04-17 10:45 am
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CATEGORY: SILMARILLION
Title:The Purple Dress
Author: Avon
Rating: K
Genre: General
Status: Complete
Summary: Purple is the colour of deepest mourning, but in the last days of Numenor a young woman chooses to defy convention.
Excerpt:
In this dress will I draw every eye as I take the colour of death and wear it, flaunting, to a celebration. Here will I set a fashion. They name purple as the colour of deepest mourning, but we will break with all those old shibboleths. The old ones count their gold and draw up the plans for their graves - 'Higher, bigger!' they order - and debate with what jewels they shall glorify those graves. Let them. We laugh at death and mock their old customs. Tonight I dance in purple for I will not fear death: let the gods know that I defy them.
Title:The Purple Dress
Author: Avon
Rating: K
Genre: General
Status: Complete
Summary: Purple is the colour of deepest mourning, but in the last days of Numenor a young woman chooses to defy convention.
Excerpt:
In this dress will I draw every eye as I take the colour of death and wear it, flaunting, to a celebration. Here will I set a fashion. They name purple as the colour of deepest mourning, but we will break with all those old shibboleths. The old ones count their gold and draw up the plans for their graves - 'Higher, bigger!' they order - and debate with what jewels they shall glorify those graves. Let them. We laugh at death and mock their old customs. Tonight I dance in purple for I will not fear death: let the gods know that I defy them.