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For the Love of Nightingale	By : Yih Category: -Multi-Age > Het - Male/Female Views: 1336 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-For the Love of Nightingale
- 2-The Art of a Master
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Foreword of
FOR THE LOVE OF NIGHTINGALE

Summary: Before the One Ring, Legolas was a Prince of Mirkwood that
was learning to be the greatest archer of the elves through his mentor, Morion,
the Citadel Guardian. Through the artistry of his bow, he meets the
greatest love of his life, Eleniel, the Weaponsmith.
Correction #1: It was pointed out to me that Mirkwood that has no
wall for an entrance, so that has been changed to a �single gate� instead. I have also corrected the �after names� or
the �epesse.� Pardon for my errors as
I�ve not been in the LotR fandom for nearly a year seriously and all my
knowledge has gone in the dumps from too much Biology, Chemistry, Differential
Equations, and etc. exams/midterms/finals.

Regarding Eryn Lasgalen (before the Destruction of the One
Ring)

The King, its Prince, and their Guardians.
The center of Eryn Lasgalen is the Citadel, which is protected
by a single gate. It is also protected by the outer defenses which are
composed of the warrior elves of Mirkwood, called the Guardians.
The Guardians are led by the Citadel Guardian, an elf from the Ostovarno
line, a line of elves that have long protected the Citadel from orc
invasions.
Thranduil, the King of the Mirkwood, has ruled as a kindly
King since the middle of the Second Age. His wise rule and capable
leadership has kept Mirkwood from being overrun by the orcs that dwell at their
borders. Though the shadow of darkness has fallen over his own green and
fulfilling lands, Mirkwood has survived and will continue to persist through
all the challenges it faces with stout hearts and brave souls.
The heir to the Mirkwood throne is Prince Legolas, Thranduil�s
and Laur�vanya�s only child. Legolas�s mother, Laur�vanya, has long
since felt the call of the seas and has departed to the Undying Lands.
She waits there now for her beloved husband and her precious son to rejoin her
there when their time comes. Possessing a radiant beauty, Laur�vanya has
passed on her extraordinary beauty to her son, Legolas.
With his blond hair and blue eyes, Legolas has broken many a maiden�s
heart. But like his good-natured mother, his heart is true and his wit,
sharp though not cruel. Born just as the Third Age came to be, he became
of age in the year 1001 of the Third Age. Always raised to be the next
Mirkwood King, Legolas�s burden of responsibility has groomed him to be a
caring young elf with a wisdom beyond his years.
When his mother departed for Valinor in the year 1891, just before Mirkwood
would begin to be shrouded in the gloom of a returned Mordor, as she
could not bear to think of her beloved home desecrated by Evil. Legolas�s
sorrow was nearly the equal of his father�s; for Legolas was his mother�s son,
possessing a sensitive heart after her own. Laur�vanya, knowing her son
would miss her guidance, enlisted her childhood friend, the dark beauty, L�rawen,
to watch over Legolas.
L�rawen was known to Legolas as the sister that his mother never had as an
only child. She is married to the Citadel Guardian, Vorondil,
whose family, the Ostovarnos, have been Guardians for Legolas�s family since
before the settlement in Mirkwood. By responding to the request of
Laur�vanya, L�rawen left her only daughter, Eleniel behind on the outer defenses
that guard the city against the marauding orcs.
At first Legolas resented L�rawen�s presence, not understanding why his
mother would think he needs someone to care for him when he is already of
age. But he soon comes to appreciate her company when his father is
gravely injured in one of border skirmishes as L�rawen is a gifted healer,
being one of Elrond�s students. L�rawen heals his father and guides
Legolas from a young elven Prince into a wise student that begins to understand
the souls of Elves.
Though L�rawen is disappointed when Legolas does not possess the gift of
healing, as she has no students to teach her gifts to as her daughter is
incapable and her nephew has not inherited the skill, she persists to open the
Prince�s heart to knowing the essence of life. Meanwhile, her daughter, Eleniel
grows up under the tutelage of her warrior father, Vorondil and her orphaned
cousin, Morion.
Deaf from birth, Eleniel must be sent away from the outer defenses as the
woods grow darker and more dangerous. Escorted by Morion to the Citadel,
Eleniel arrives to rejoin her mother, L�rawen, who Eleniel has not been seen
for over 500 years. Her mother sequesters Eleniel into a hidden garden
where solitude and quietness are Eleniel�s only company. Left with
nothing else to do, Eleniel continues to hone her ability as a skilled elven
weaponsmith.
Hidden from the rest of the elves, Eleniel finds her only comfort from
Morion�s frequent and her father�s infrequent visits. Though she is a
skilled warrior, her father refuses to allow her to join the Citadel
Guard. Vorondil thinks its too dangerous as Eleniel cannot hear the enemy
but must rely on sight alone. Thus he sends her away, even if she is one
of his most skilled warriors.
While Eleniel wishes that she knew her mother better, she understands the
important role that her mother plays in the royal court of Mirkwood. And
even before her mother had departed to become the Prince�s teacher, L�rawen was
too busy being the Healer of Mirkwood. But if Eleniel is close to
anyone, it is her father. L�rawen has often said that the daughter she
has it truly Vorondil�s.
When her father is killed in battle, Eleniel feels that she must return to
the outer defenses since the founding of Mirkwood there has always been an
Ostovarno there. Her mother will not allow this, as she is devastated by
the death of her husband and cannot bear to lose her daughter as well.
Eleniel then sends a secret missive to Morion, who has been leading the
Guardians since the death of Vorondil.
With Morion�s help, Eleniel finally has come home to the outer defenses,
where she was born and raised amongst the warrior elves of Mirkwood.
Unwilling to let Morion step down as the Citadel Guardian, as he knows more
about battle strategies than any elf that she knows--- she instead insists that
she will be his weaponsmith. Together, they drive away the first terrible
onslaught of the first reformed Mordor army since the War of the Ring.
Even though they know that they were victorious, there is celebration of
triumph. Instead, there is the deep dread for all the bloodshed and the
grim battles ahead of them as Mordor has risen from its ashes to not only
shadow their beautiful woods but to terrorize them with armies of orcs released
from deep within its darkness�

Concerning the Elves
Legolas Greenleaf

His name means �Greenleaf.� The Prince of Mirkwood and L�rawen�s
faithful student, Legolas has proven him to be every inch the Prince that his
mother expected him to be. Under tutelage of the Healer of Mirkwood,
Legolas has grown into a bright, intelligent elf with the uncanny instincts
that a monarch needs. While he is no healer, he is an empathetic Prince
that understands the needs of his people and the yearnings of their
souls. Trained by a retired Guardian, Legolas becomes a skilled warrior,
but he realizes that he must test his battle skills on the front line to see
what he still needs to learn. Coming underneath the guidance of Citadel
Guardian, Morion, Legolas blossoms into a fine warrior--- the �greatest
archer the forest has ever seen.� He is about 2,700 years old.
Thranduil

His name means �Beyond the Long River.� He is the King of Mirkwood and
is a strong, capable ruler. He is over 5,000 years old and has been King
for over 4,000 years since the middle of the Second Age. He was
devastated when his wife felt the call of the sea, but he understood that she
could not bear to see her beloved Greenwood darkened into Mirkwood. He
now rules Mirkwood �til the time when it again be known as Eryn Lasgalen and
�til he can rejoin his wife in Valinor.
Laur�vanya

Her name means �Golden Beauty� as she is the loveliest of all elven maidens to
grace the Halls of the Citadel. She is the beloved wife of King Thranduil
and passed over to the Undying Lands in the year 1891 of the Third Age.
She left her son in the care of her childhood friend, L�rawen, who she trusted
to teach her son to become a wise and kindly Prince.
Eleniel L�melind�

Her name means �Star Maiden.� But what her fellow Guardian brothers call
her is L�melind� or �Nightingale,� which is her epesse. She is
more like her father than her mother, though she has inherited her mother�s
dark beauty. Though she was born deaf, that has not prevented her from
being a warrior worthy of her bloodline nor has it stopped her from becoming a
gifted weaponsmith. She is especially gifted at bow-making and
swords-making. Nearly 2000 years old, she has become the Chief
Weaponsmith for the Mirkwood elves. Considering her considerable
skill with weapons-making, she is kept protected in the outer defenses to
supply the Guardians with the weapons they need to defend the Citadel against
the Mordor orcs.
Vorondil Ostovarno

His name means �Devoted Faith.� He was the Citadel Guardian until
his untimely death in 2528 by the hands of orcs. He dearly loves his
daughter and sought to protect her by sending her back to the Citadel in
2395. From a long line of skilled warriors, the Ostovarnos (City
Defenders), he has taught his daughter everything about weaponry and
combating He was nearly 4,500 years old at his death.
L�rawen Morelen

Her name means �Dark Maiden,� hinting at her dark beauty. Her epesse
means �Dark Star,� and from which her daughter�s name is derived. Her origins are shrouded with the elves that
originally settled Rivendell with Lord Elrond Half-Elven. Stories have it
that she descends from her mother�s side to a close relative of L�thien and
that is where she got her dark good looks. One of Elrond�s first
students, L�rawen comes from a long line of healers. She practiced the
healing arts under Elrond�s guidance for a thousand years before finally
marrying the elf her parents had betrothed to to at her coming of age.
She is over 4,000 years old and known as the Healer of Mirkwood.
Morion Telromenisil

His name means �Dark Son.� His epesse means �Last Rising Moon� as he
is the last male of his line. He is a
cousin of Eleniel from her mother�s side. Orphaned at a young age due to
the fact his parents had settled dangerously close to Mordor and were one of
the first elven settlements to fall, he has lived the past 2000 years with his
Uncle Vorondil. Lacking the healing gift that�s prevalent on his father�s
side (his father was L�rawen�s older brother), he trains under Vorondil as thext Cxt Citadel Guardian. At Vorondil�s death, Morion assumes the position
as Citadel Guardian with Eleniel�s blessing when he�s nearly 3,000 years
old.

Notes on New References
Citadel: The heart of Eryn Lasgalen, where the King of Mirkwood resides.
It would be equated with the White City of Gondor.
Citadel Guardian: The leader of the armed elven warriors of Mirkwood
that defend the Citadel by holding the outer defenses. The Citadel
Guardian has always come from the Ostovarno line until Morion Telromenisil, who
is the nephew of Vorondil, the last Ostovarno Guardian.
Guardians: The armed elven warriors of Mirkwood. They are
typically young elves that use the experience to become matured and experienced
elves. Before the darkening of Greenwood into Mirkwood, it was not
necessary for every male elf to serve as a Guardian but not it is
mandatory.
Healer of Mirkwood: The title given to the Chief Healer of
Mirkwood.
Weaponsmith: The name given to any elf that is skilled with the
forging of weapons. The title of Chief Weaponsmith is given to the
current master at weapons-making.

Author�s Note: This story has a lot of background knowledge. I
won�t even try to say this isn�t Mary-Sueish. If you can get past it, I
hope you�ll see that it�s a lovely and very detail intensive story. If
you have read my other LotR fanfic, �In Times Like These� it�ll be written in a
similar breathtaking fashion but better (as I hope I get better as I keep
writing).
If you like it, review
it and you might see more of it.

TBC...
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