Darkened paths by daughterofshadows

Darkened paths

A really short poem about Aredhel's time in Nan Elmoth.

I imagine this pretty much ending just before she meets Eöl for the first time. Maybe I'll get something written for that at one point, too.

It's a fill for ungwë (spider web), though this is a rather metaphorical spider web.

How strange these woods, how dark and cold.

So unlike those I walked in days of old.

No hound or horse are at my side

And if another thing lives here,

in shadows do they hide.

But there! A path! Oh, could it be?

At last a way out of the dark?

Birdsong rings now in my ears,

Dawn’s chorus, oh beloved lark!

Chapter End Notes

I fought hard to get that lark rhyme in there XD I thought it was a nice twist, since dawn is often associated with hope, but in this case everything is about to go very wrong for Aredhel.