Drabbles: The Silmarillion, part 2 by Zdenka

Horns in the Forest

A young Ent is inspired by hearing the horn of Oromë.

Written for B2MeM 2018, for the prompt: Create a fanwork with rainy or stormy weather.

The storm whipped through dark Beleriand, pouring down rain. Thunder rumbled in the sky and was echoed by hoofbeats on the earth, where Oromë rode to the hunt. His horse’s hooves struck sparks from stone as he passed, and lightning flashed above. The creatures of Morgoth, great beasts terrible with tooth and claw, slunk aside and hid when Oromë’s horn sounded long and sweet and clear through the shadowy woods.

As the horn’s echoes died away, a young tree, or what looked like a tree, stirred and shook rain from his leaves. “Hoom,” he trumpeted quietly in imitation. “Hrum, HOOM!”

Chapter End Notes

I recently stumbled across a note Tolkien made about the Ents: “The males were devoted to Oromë, but the Wives to Yavanna.” (Letter 247) That made me start thinking about the Ents and Oromë and what they might have thought of each other.