Tattered and Split - Part 1

Fandom: Tolkien
Rating: PG
Characters: Elwing
Warnings: brief mention of Elwing's canonical suicide attempt.
Summary: The sea is huge, and grey, and loud, and Elwing hates it. She hates it and she fears it, and so once she is old enough to slip away from her nurses and her guardians, she goes down to the beach.

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I go down to the edge of the sea.
How everything shines in the morning light!
The cusp of the whelk,
the broken cupboard of the clam,
the opened, blue mussels,
moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred—
and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split,
dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone.
- "Breakage" by Mary Oliver

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