A Tree Named Celeborn by Himring

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A Tree Named Celeborn

Using Sindarin names here, so Eldalote, Angrod's wife, features as Edhellos.

(This is set in Himring 'verse, in which Edhellos is a leader of the surviving Noldorin Exiles in Tol Eressea.)


What is my one, oh?
Telperion and the moon above, oh!
What is my two, oh?
Galathilion in the Great Square, oh!
What is my three, oh?
Celeborn…

There was an uncomfortable silence. The truth had to be faced. The evacuees from Beleriand would need to stay longer in Tol Eressea than planned. Despite their pitifully reduced numbers, tensions were still too high to allow return to the mainland. Tirion was struggling to reintegrate veterans of the War of Wrath, as it was.‘We will focus on turning Avallone into a proper city,’ said Edhellos, firmly.
‘I brought you a seedling of Galathilion for the town square,’ said Finarfin. ‘This one is named…Celeborn.’
Edhellos grinned. The atmosphere lightened.
‘Maybe Celeborn will meet his namesake tree here one day!’


Chapter End Notes

The Tree of Tol Eressea (ancestor of the White Trees of Numenor and Gondor) and the elven character Celeborn do have the same name, although Tolkien changed his opinion about the origin of the second element in the character Celeborn's name later, so that the names would only sound as if they were the same, according to that interpretation.

Tolkienshortfanworks prompts: "Magic" trees; call and response (form).
Tolkien100 prompt: The honest truth.

The prose ficlet is 100 words in MS Word.


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