Article XML http://borderland.waking-vision.com/modules/article/view.article.php/94/c45 2026-04-30T03:31:16+02:00 http://borderland.waking-vision.com/modules/article/ http://borderland.waking-vision.com/modules/article/images/article.png text/html 2007-10-21T13:44:08+02:00 http://borderland.waking-vision.com/modules/article/ http://borderland.waking-vision.com/modules/article/view.article.php/94/c45 Category: Dorothy Dunnett<br />Keywords: drabble, imrahil, lymond<br />Summary: <b>Summary:</b> An encounter between two sea-loving men from two quite different worlds. Crossover between Dorothy Dunnett's "Lymond Chronicles" and Tolkien. Drabble.<br />With experts' eyes, Henry Sidney's guests scrutinised the map his foreign visitor had brought, inscribed in elegant but cryptic script, allegedly showing his homelands, "Endor".<br /><br />All had come, the invitations' allusions to sensational geographical discoveries irresistible: members of the Muscovy Company, John Dee from duties to the new Queen, de Nicholay from France.<br /><br />And from his Scottish home, Crawford of Lymond with his wife.<br /><br />Crawford and the princely stranger, who had so quickly mastered English, formed the circle's centre, deep in a spirited discussion about sea-routes, sail-plans, problems of measuring longitude.<br /><br />Sea-grey eyes meeting cornflower-blue - two kindred souls coming together.<br /><br />~*~<br /><br />A/N:<br />- "It was like an evening at Penshurst ... handsome hours such as these, charged with good wine and light talk and music, enclosed with comfort, and incised all about with a curving, trephining wit." (Dorothy Dunnett, The Ringed Castle)<br />- In a time (1560s) when Australia was not yet discovered and no reliable method of measuring longitudes had been found, the possibility of an unknown continent like Middle-earth doesn't sound as fantastic and improbable as it would in our time.<br />- For those unfamiliar with Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles: all characters mentioned here (except Lymond) are historical figures interested or working in the fields of cartography, astronomy &amp; astrology, and geography.<br /><br /><em>30.09.07 B-drabble for Denise, who asked for an encounter between Imrahil and Francis Crawford of Lymond.</em><br />