Treebeard drabbles: Ossiriand and Neldoreth by Himring  

The Wood in Summer

Treebeard in First Age Ossiriand.

General. No warnings.

Treebeard wandered through the forest in delight. Green branches and twigs waved welcome, and he stopped to greet elms whose acquaintance he had made on previous visits.

At last, he reached the upper course of the Legolin where roar of the river softened to a stream singing between the rocks and he heard the sound of a waterfall. Ah, splendid, he had hoped that was still there, despite last spring’s heavy rains! He stepped into the clear pool glittering in the summer sun and felt the fine spray misting over head and shoulders. Truly, a favourite place of his in this season!

Content to rest in this spot on a sunny day, he stood dripping in that same spot under the fall for hours, wide awake but unmoving.

Until Nandorin words reached his ears!

‘Who was this you wanted to introduce me to, Ealc?’ Amrod asked. ‘I don’t see anyone!’

Chapter End Notes

150 words in MS Word.

Ealc is the Nandorin word for ‘swan’, my name for a Nando who has made friends with Amrod (he has briefly appeared before, mentioned as being present at the Mereth Aderthad).

Poetry prompt: 

I sought the wood in summer / When every twig was green 

(by Willa Cather, the first two lines of a poem in the collection April Twilights)

Link to poem:
https://cather.unl.edu/writings/books/0005
 

Four-word prompt: 

sing, hope, words, fall