I Hold With Those Who Favor Fire

by The Hobbit's Rhapsody

One hundred themes for a High King of the Noldor and his wife the Wise, one hundred words apiece. Fëanor/Nerdanel: runs the gamut from first-meeting fluff to post-Oath heartbreak. Non-chronological. 057: Heart of a child.

21. Disenchanted

021: "Disenchanted."

As a child, an avid reader of faery tales, Nerdanel had never been clear on the difference between "unenchanted" and "disenchanted". The differing prefixes seemed merely academical, of no real consequence.

Now she looked at Fëanáro, the prince she worked so hard to unenchant—to free from this obsessive, terrible, false form that was creeping over him—and knew that she was failing. For all her effort, he was only becoming more immersed in his crafts, delighting less in his kingdom, in their sons, in his princess.

In trying to unenchant her prince, she seemed only to be furthering his disenchantment.