New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.
Andvir, Androg's son, survived the death of the rest of Turin's group of outlaws on Amon Rudh.
Later, he remembers.
Warning for canonical multiple character death, as per summary.
`I had been sent on an errand to another camp,’ said Andvir. ‘As I returned, the sun was setting and, as I approached, I remember how red the hilltop looked. But I thought nothing of it, just the seregon still in bloom and the sunset…’
‘And it was not?’
‘I guess it was, in truth, but I soon found signs of battle and, when I climbed the steps to the summit, there was blood all over the rocks. I stumbled about and, in my rising fear, I almost fell across my father’s body. He lay dead, and Neithan was gone.’
Seregon the name of the plant growing on Amon Rudh, translates as "blood stone" (a purposeful foreshadowing by Tolkien in the Narn).
Neithan is Turin's name among the outlaws.
This was written for tolkien100 for the prompt: Blood on the rocks.