The Silent Ones : The Holbytlan Tales
Yavanna's Children
Disclaimer: Right, I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING that Tolkien created or Peter Jackson created as a deviation of Tolkien. I do own the storyline and the piggy bank that is currently penniless. In other words, I'm not making a dime to share this story with everyone. So, Enjoy!
Of the many things said about Yavanna and Aulë, let it be known they got along spectacularly, or in the words of their fellow Valar, disastrously. There was not a day or a conversation that went by where one of the couple did not walk away without heartache, but for all their faults, they loved each other deeply. So deeply, that it was not just Aulë that created children and broke some rules, but Yavanna did as well. Where Aulë was secretive and arrogant in keeping his creations from Father Eru, Yavanna was open and sly about hers.
Yavanna did not try to hide her want of children like Aulë and she, in fact, openly invited the other Valar to revel in her joyous achievement, for she had created something the others had not and knew Father Eru would approve. A peaceful race, for they did not like violence, did not like adventures, and did not wield a weapon of any sort. They cared for the earth that she gave to the people of middle earth, and found joy in family, music, and dance. They were the happiest and most content race of all her fellow Valars' creation, but even she knew the world would not be kind or forgiving to her holbytlan. For no one was kind to those they perceived as weak and beneath them.
She knew they saw her as being just as vulnerable. It was for this slight on her that she devised her secret and protection for her creations. She did what the others in Valinor dared not. On the last stage of her creating, she had stolen into the night while her husband slept, and took a sample of every species of gemsoul Aulë had, she could not take all but she did split in half two-thirds of his collection. Her last contribution was fusing the half gemsouls into the fabric of her creations. She forever linked her husband's children together with her own, Aulë none the wiser to his wife's work. She created a true halfling, a very different sort of holbytla. A holbytla in body but with a Khazâd gemsoul linked to their very soul. A holbytla that could and would use any means necessary to protect her children and their Gem-mate. She created the possibility of the Silent Ones.
Born with a gemstone in their hands, Yhavana called them blessed, for they were destined for her husband's children, the other half of a Khazâd's gemsoul. The holbytlan called their kin cursed. Being no different in the happy-go-lucky characteristic of a holbytla, the Silent Ones were never free to love like their brothers and sisters. The holbytlan pitied them. The Silent Ones namesake was not because they couldn't talk but because they suffered in silence. Forever loving their gem-mate at a distance, training in subjects no respectable holbytlan loved, and living apart from the holbytlan life despite often living in the heart of the holbytlas; there is rarely a Silent One that had a happy ending to their living story.
The Silent Ones were not lucky at all, for they lived and died by their Khazâd's life span. Never to die like they're kin when the light when out for a holbytla and it stayed out. They, on the other hand, were cursed with true immortality. Forever reborn like their Gem-mated but they were cursed to remember every life from before. Forced to forever have a smile on their face, even as the Silent Ones heart forever bled. Forced to forever have a smile on their face, even as the Silent Ones heart forever bled.
For Yhavana did not know Aulë had forbidden the Khazâds marriage outside their race. The nerve of the man to make her and her children suffer so. To think, he could by pass Sister Vairë's weaving or Father Eru's ruling of a life of free will. Aulë's will didn't even apply to her silent suffers because of those gemsouls , and all Yavanna wanted in the end was to share her cherished children with her husband.
Notes: Er, if I got the Valar Family tree wrong please don't kill me. I personally believe it's incest if they all have the same father no matter how nicely we like to play up Godly relations. So to keep it simple, all the Valar are a brother, sister, father, husband, or wife.
Holbytla (-n, for plu.) is the oldest form of "hobbit" I could find which is country bumpkin Rohirric for Hole-Dweller. Formal Rohiric, language of Rohan uses kûd-dûkan, which then goes into Westron's short hand of "Kuduk". Westron is better known as Common Tongue and first spoken by the Dunedain. Still don't get how the english word of "Hobbit" can be derived from any of it, so I'm debating if I should even use the word before or in the The Hobbit timeline. Thoughts?