Earth
Maglor does not like to be in buildings with elevators.
He can feel the ground moving beneath his feet, and it is an awful, unsettling feeling.
He likes to take walks in parks instead.
Sometimes, he disappears for days at a time, letting himself get lost in the forest.
He likes to listen to light, calming synthetic music and reach for butterflies just out of range, with his feet planted firmly on the earth.
On the earth he is bound to.
He likes to stare at himself for hours in the mirror, trying to find things in his face that remind him of his family.
Of his brothers.
It is not too hard.
His face has not changed much over the years, except that he added a silver highlight to his hair.
Thinking back on it afterwards, he wonders why he got it.
Maybe he did it just because he could.
He likes to stay up late slumped on his decades old couch, watching the collector's edition of 'I Love Lucy', an old black and white sitcom, even though now you can watch movies in 3-D.
He watches it, but does not laugh as the the recorded audience does.
Instead he remembers meeting her once, Lucy, when she was in middle-school, then again, just a week before her death, and then reading about it later in the paper.
She did not remember him when they met the second time, but he remembered.
He remembers everything.
He likes to put magnets with empowering quotes on his fridge, and weave placemats out of the newspapers he doesn't have the heart to read anymore.
He likes to watch the little kids sing a Christmas, and to sometimes put a little bit of lipstick on, because, in a weird way, it reminds him of the wife he hasn't seen in so long, her face is like and old, faded photograph in his mind.
He likes to whisper secrets to the reeds, and scrub graffiti off walls.
But most of all he just likes to take walks in the park, and feel the solid earth-his earth-beneath his feet again.
(when I am in buildings with elevators, I can sometimes feel the ground move slightly, like a minor earthquake. I do not know if this is an experience unique to me or not, but I am gonna give Maglor the excuse that he has keen elven sensory stuff. :P)
By 'wife' we are referring to his canon wife, whom he left behind in Valinor upon swearing The Oath and departing for Middle Earth. :( so sad...
'I Love Lucy' was an old black and white sitcom, look it up if you're curious. :)) It stars Lucy(Lucille Ball), and her husband, Ricky(Desi Arnaz). Lucy is the one Maglor(in this drabble)once met, before and after she was famous. I think I should also add that I do not own nor do I claim to own I Love Lucy, or anything else recognizable. Thank you, and please have a good one and review. :D