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tolkien100Title : To See Our Enemy Coming
Author : Himring
Fandom : Silmarillion, History of Middle-earth
Rating : PG
Characters : Edhellos (Eldalote), Angrod's wife; Cirdan
Disclaimer : Characters and settings are Tolkien's, but this interaction is entirely invented.
Spoilers : Reference to the outcome of the Battle of Sudden Flame.
Summary: Edhellos has escaped, with a handful of others, from the battle in which her husband died. She has a request to make. (Double drabble.)
Cirdan had been expecting messengers from Nargothrond, but not these.
‘Edhellos! Lady, what a surprise and a pleasure! I have not seen you in far too long.’
Indeed, he had not seen her since before the loss of Dorthonion and Angrod’s death, although messages had passed between them.
Edhellos shrugged, smiling a little too brightly.
‘I heard a messenger was needed and we took a chance to escape the halls of stone! I wished to see you!’
Most of her small following also were from Dorthonion, Cirdan realized.
Edhellos continued soberly: ‘I also have a request. But it can wait.’
Edhellos did not make her request, until she had delivered Finrod’s messages to Cirdan, and they were alone.
‘Cirdan, give me leave to dwell in Barad Nimras. Your people would surely be happily employed elsewhere?’
She saw his uneasy look.
‘No, I will not be staring west, fruitlessly spying for a far-off shore! It is a guard tower! And we would be your watchers.
But we hail from the mountains and moorlands of Dorthonion. We would feel easier looking down from on high than under hills, in Nargothrond—because when the Enemy next comes, we want to see them coming!’
A/N: Although Edhellos is a canonical character, we know very little about her and her life. I've gradually been building up a back story for her.
Author : Himring
Fandom : Silmarillion, History of Middle-earth
Rating : PG
Characters : Edhellos (Eldalote), Angrod's wife; Cirdan
Disclaimer : Characters and settings are Tolkien's, but this interaction is entirely invented.
Spoilers : Reference to the outcome of the Battle of Sudden Flame.
Summary: Edhellos has escaped, with a handful of others, from the battle in which her husband died. She has a request to make. (Double drabble.)
Cirdan had been expecting messengers from Nargothrond, but not these.
‘Edhellos! Lady, what a surprise and a pleasure! I have not seen you in far too long.’
Indeed, he had not seen her since before the loss of Dorthonion and Angrod’s death, although messages had passed between them.
Edhellos shrugged, smiling a little too brightly.
‘I heard a messenger was needed and we took a chance to escape the halls of stone! I wished to see you!’
Most of her small following also were from Dorthonion, Cirdan realized.
Edhellos continued soberly: ‘I also have a request. But it can wait.’
Edhellos did not make her request, until she had delivered Finrod’s messages to Cirdan, and they were alone.
‘Cirdan, give me leave to dwell in Barad Nimras. Your people would surely be happily employed elsewhere?’
She saw his uneasy look.
‘No, I will not be staring west, fruitlessly spying for a far-off shore! It is a guard tower! And we would be your watchers.
But we hail from the mountains and moorlands of Dorthonion. We would feel easier looking down from on high than under hills, in Nargothrond—because when the Enemy next comes, we want to see them coming!’
A/N: Although Edhellos is a canonical character, we know very little about her and her life. I've gradually been building up a back story for her.
