To See Our Enemy Coming by Himring
Fanwork Notes
I discovered that I had not cross-posted this double drabble, although my most recent challenge fic is meant to continue it (and then I discovered that I had not cross-posted a drabble about Edhellos's escape from Dorthonion either so that is now the second chapter.)
Warnings for reference to the outcome of the Battle of Sudden Flame, including canonical character death.
Edhellos is the Sindarin name of Eldalote.
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Summary:
Edhellos has escaped, with a handful of others, from the battle in which her husband Angrod died. She has a request to make.
Major Characters: Círdan, Eldalótë
Major Relationships:
Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges:
Rating: General
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 2 Word Count: 305 Posted on 29 December 2022 Updated on 29 December 2022 This fanwork is complete.
To See Our Enemy Coming
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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!’
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Originally posted to the tolkien100 community on LiveJournal, 2020-06-20.
Written for the following tolkien100 prompts: halls of stone, looking down from on high, spying a far off shore, take a chance, the watchers.
Survivor
This drabble precedes the first chapter both in-universe and in order of writing:
Summary:
Angrod's wife Edhellos will survive the fall of Dorthonion, even though Angrod and Aegnor are about to die in the Battle of Sudden Flame.
Angrod intended her to.
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Edhellos was not foresighted, unlike her husband. It was not until she reached the top of the ridge and felt the tremendous blast of heat mixed with smoke and black malice strike her from the right that she understood that he had not sent her riding pell-mell westwards to get help.
‘I’ll get you for this, Angrod,’ she hissed, remembering, too late, the expression on his face.
Which might be a difficult promise to keep. Would she see him again before the End of Days?
She did not turn or slow the horse. She would save whoever she still could.
Chapter End Notes
Written in 2019 for Day Three (Angrod and Aegnor) of Arafinwean Week on Tumblr, using the following prompts from Tolkien100 and Tolkien Weekly:
The End of Days; When the Black Wind Blows; Travelling on Horseback.This is set in the same continuity as Neighbourly Relations, where Angrod's decision to send Edhellos for help, even though no help can come in time to save him, is described from Aegnor's point of view.
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