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Alternate Tapestries I

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The Silmarillion as it never happened! :D

Ok, I suppose I should explain.

This March I took part in the Silmarillion Writers' Guild's "Back to Middle-earth Month" [link] challenge game - a mix of RPG, board game and writing prompt workshop. Each week there were story-writing (or art-producing) challenges depending on where on the map you were.

In the fifth week, however, the challenge could be chosen freely - but it had to be dealt with in collaboration with one or more other teams. I ended up with two other teams (three other people) and we picked the following challenge:
Your character has a chance to change a single event in his or her past, but doing such will forever alter the future. What will your character choose? What would they change, if anything? And how do you think his or her future would change?

Hah! The endless possibilities! Accordingly, the four of us brain-stormed for days without coming to a decision, and in the end we decided that each of us should write their own story, and I'd go and illustrate a scene from it. (That was before I realised that the deadline weekend happened to be the Easter weekend which naturally required all sorts of preparation, visits for bonfires/ service/ coffee, etc. - accordingly, all the paintings were done really really quickly and thus kind of sloppily >_>.)

First story: Maedhros (and Maglor) manage to convince Olwë that cooperation might be, um, a better idea on the whole; the Teleri ferry the Noldorin hosts across. No first kinslaying, no Prophecy of the North, and no ship-burning, hurrah! Also, Fëanor invents trebuchets. Otherwise, I copped out before I had to make any more decisions on further dramatic changes to the story. At the point where I cut it, it might yet run back into (more or less) the course we know - but then, it might not...
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Love this very much! If only!