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He and Diamond were visiting, though Pippin had been disappearing every afternoon, and taking Frodo and Elanor and most other lads and lasses in the neighborhood with him—though why they couldn’t use Pippin’s own pony, Sam couldn’t imagine.
So gathered they were to Bree, what lieutenants who could be spared, from their scattered watches west and east, for their chieftain had returned from his long sojourn in lands godless and mountains strange.
Aragorn returns from the South to tells his tales. Halbarad listens.
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I am so happy to see something written about BOTH of these periods (pre-Noldor Beleriand and Tuor's fostering) and I love the worldbuilding you've squeezed into this little piece about the time when Beleriand was under stars and Melian was Queen (so cool to think of her sending messages around, and the tragedy of not telling them why Oromë isn't coming).
The foreshadowing of Eärendil with Tuor's last comment is brilliant.
Thank you very much! I'm very glad you enjoyed the details here!
There is probably more than one way to read the legendarium, as there so often is, but it sounds to me as if Melian had received occasional communications from Valinorean Ainur before the Darkening, but as soon as the Trees died, there was a total communication black-out, even for her.
I have written little about pre-Noldorin Beleriand, but there are two other short conversations between Annael and Tuor about the more recent past in this drabble series about Annael, if you would like to see them: https://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/node/1731
This is really great! I love Annael telling stories to little Tuor, and this is a great glimpse into what it was like in Beleriand during the Years of the Trees. And that last line is wonderful foreshadowing of Earendil!
Reading this you can almost feel the energy of Orome's hunt as they rush past
Really happy to read something about that timeframe, I think the relationship that the early elves have with Orome is just really fascinating to think about
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