Henneth Annûn Story Archive

What a moving look at a possible way the Sindar may have assimilated the Silvan folk into their own. Dark and foreboding and told from the point of view of a father whose sons have been taken from him, Darth Fingon has weaved a masterful, if sad, tale of the people of the Golden Wood. Gripping from the first paragraph, we follow one family and the loss of their sons to those who take them to train them for the 'own good' in the ways of the Grey Elves. Told with such gripping emotion the reader cannot help but feel disgust for Celeborn and Galadriel for such arrogance, nor can they help but feel pity for the family whose sons have been taken, only to have one return so vastly different.

Darth Fingon has once again managed to write a politically gripping take on the different kindreds of the Elves, showing the possible differences in their thought processes and cultures through wonderfully crafted visuals as we see one son returned to his home village and the lengths he would go to make a point. Most definitely a different look at the brothers Haldir, Orophin and Rumil and how they might have been raised to become wardens for the Galadhrim, and one that leaves the reader in doubt about the true motives of those Western Elves. Most moving was the final quote by Haldir's father, his hope that one day the orcs would burn the Golden Wood to the ground is somewhat foretelling. Sad, but well worth reading.

Well, it's certainly an interesting theory. Nothing canon to back it up though. I'm curious though, where you came up with only the silvans rope walk. Legolas seemed to be saying any elf could do so but that the humans, hobbits and the dwarf would have a problem?