An Evil Cradling

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However after claiming these, he concludes that his ideas are ‘yet inexplicable’, proving that he cannot explain his ideas, because they lack logic. Approaching feet scuffed amid the dirt some metres from where Maedhros sat, and quickly he stifled the sob that caught in his throat as coarse, muttering voices neared him. Due to this prolonged lack of stimuli, Keenan becomes temporarily mentally unbalanced, with his senses going out of control.

Sixteen years on, it's hard to believe anyone could have been pessimistic about their union: Audrey – warm-hearted, easy-going, open – is the perfect foil for the edgy, angst-ridden, complicated Keenan. Keenan has nothing extenuated nor set down aught in malice: the scope and grandeur of his reflections is supported by the concrete detail of his narrative. For a moment he staggered; hot tongues of pain lapped up his arms left cramped and aching from so long in confinement, but before he could take so much as a step the orcs seized him once more, and in one disorienting arc spun him about.As a grim battalion beneath Fëanor’s banner they stood, shielded and armed, and as the blankness of shock drained from their lord, as grisly clarity blared its warning in his mind hurriedly Maedhros regained himself, and he bade them stand firm. In his account of this time, An Evil Cradling, he describes "a world in which nothing happens, and yet everything happens", and his struggle to retain control over this world. Gothmog it was who stood before him; dread commander of the Umaiar, usurpers and betrayers all, the one whose whip had sliced through his father’s cuirass, who had lacerated his fair face with its spray of fire, the one who condemned his father to death. Iron hands clamped down about his shoulders, he bucked and screamed against the press of them as with near bone-breaking force they wrenched his arms behind him, and horror seethed in his heart as he felt bonds of cord being looped about his struggling wrists.

His people’s safety he would ensure; that accord was paramount, and to that the uruk was grudgingly agreeable. And there are some sentences which are just an enumeration of words, like ‘No sound, no noise, nothing.Nelyo will not see sense, he will not see the snare that loops before him; he will throw himself away upon the rash hope that a thief might relinquish that which he has stolen. And almost six months more before first Terry Waite, in November 1991, and then Terry Anderson, a month later, were released. His heart hammered within his chest, nausea squirmed in his stomach as the breath skidded back into his lungs, and as tightly as he could manage he curled himself up to ward off whatever new evil might approach him. The discourse reeled and spun between them, trickeries were unwoven and ambiguities razed, yet at last it seemed that Maedhros had the mastery, and the uruk’s terms were peeled back to their barest bones. Keenan took his destiny in his hands, dropping out of the plumber's apprenticeship he started, getting himself to university to read English literature, and then becoming a teacher: the only kid in his street, as he has often said - and not in a self- congratulatory manner - to do so.

About the shores of a great lake he had brought them to safety within these hostile lands, and he would do so again. Hard he panted; his hair tumbled in a messy russet straggle down his back; his lips twisted into a feral snarl as the orcs fanned out before him, and an awful cry rang out over the hollow. Celegorm’s terse words whispered not hours before flitted through Maedhros’ mind, but grimly he steeled his will against them. Having something to look up to, to idolize he gains a psychological support and becomes dependent on his fruits which he would not eat, nor give away to the guards.Armoured fingers gripped tightly to bowstrings, swords hissed partway free of their scabbards as the Noldorin party watched the proceedings keenly; knuckles whitened as for a moment Maedhros recoiled, but as the taut seconds trickled by, no weapon was yet drawn.