Postcards from Arda by Elleth

The Araman Tower

Once more thank you for the help and encouragement, GG and people at the Lizard Council.

Everyone avoided the tower. It was believed to have ...
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For B2MeM 2011, Day Twenty-three: The Araman Tower: A monument has different meanings to different people. (A drabble according to Open Office.)

Everyone avoided the tower. It was believed to have been raised by the hands of the Valar or none at all, on the very cliffs beneath which the greater part of the Noldor had gladly pushed onward into their doom. None lived there, it was said, and fishermen's darker songs only marked the place for one purpose: before the floes of ice upon the sea grew perilous, or treacherous currents swept a ship into exile, it was time for turning homeward. Other stories yet, whispered among those that had returned with Arafinwë, only called the spire a monument of grief.

Chapter End Notes

The tower is entirely my own invention. I failed to meet the challenge using any canonically described building.