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Estarfin

Sword Play

Submitted by Parnard on April 19th, 2023
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Parnard slipped the sword from its leather sheath and held it in his upturned palms, studying the blade from hilt to tip in a complacent rapture. The blade’s mirror-like surface reflected the firelight in dazzling prisms of bursting color. Its hilt was wrapped with supple leather and intricately etched with a silver filigree pattern of leaves and twisting branches. STEEL-THORN was inscribed on it in Tengwar characters. It was a sword made just for him - and he was more than a little proud.

Chronicle link: 
The History of Two Brothers of the Wood

Merry Madness

Submitted by Parnard on April 18th, 2023
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Lord Estarfin refused the wineskin, saying he had an early drill in the morning with Lord Veryacano, and burst into laughter. It made me laugh anew, and I looking over at the Lady Danel, saw that she was not laughing; instead her eyes were bright as dwarf-steel, and they flashed a sharp warning. Her look and her grimace quite killed the merriment in my heart; my laughter died on my lips and my smile faded, but Lord Estarfin was still smiling just as broadly. Smiles often hide the truth, but the eye doth not deceive, so I looked closer into his eyes and saw at once it was true.

Overlooking Hobbiton

Submitted by Danel on April 17th, 2023
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Estarfin looked out over the farmlands nigh the small village of Hobbiton. We would wait until the stars shone, then pass over the lands to Needlehole.

"If the Siege had never been broken, do you think we would have grown as safe and comfortable as these Halflings?' he asked.

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No Return to Cuivienan?

Estarfin at the Havens

Submitted by Estarfin on April 15th, 2023
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Tears are falling freely from my eyes, whether from the smoke or sorrow I no longer know. I am covered in blood, and it is not my own. This night has brought nothing but madness and awful grief. I stand before a small house, the roof burning, the acrid smoke mingling with the pall of smoke from a hundred other fires. The Haven is in ruins, the last shelter in Beleriand destroyed by our own hands. The occupants of the small house lie at my feet, and my heart nearly breaks as I look down at them. The smallest of them could have run, could have hidden.

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Vanimar

Letter to Aearlinn

Submitted by Danel on April 12th, 2023
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(Reposted from several years ago . - A short letter to my student, Aearlinn of the Falathrim, on the occasion of Estarfin's suspected 'disappearance' into the  Hithaeglir.)

 

Aearlinn,

I am sorry to leave this matter to yourself and Serewen, but time is of the essence and I must depart the Vale as soon as possible in search of Lord Estarfin.

As you know, the welfare of that lord from my childhood home is of import to me. It is necessary I do all I may to aid him.

Chronicle link: 
Of Papers Lost and Found
A Haughty Spirit Falls

And then there were Three.

Submitted by Danel on April 5th, 2023
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By first light we had reached the old camp the wandering folk oft used. And with that dawn, Belegos caught up with us. He did not consider us much of a challenge to track, he said with a smile. 

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No Return to Cuivienan?

Estarfin the Wise

Submitted by Danel on April 3rd, 2023
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It was late. It was dark that few noticed we two walking through their village, with our horses following closely. Those who did moved away, their eyes wide.

"We mean you no harm," Estarfin tried, having first spoken to them in quenya.

We stopped by a stone wall, and looked over the well tended fields. These folk certainly loved their land. 

"I cannot easily believe that Eru intends folk like these to suffer." I mused aloud, thinking of possible wars ahead... thinking of a contingent at Fornost in the past.

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No Return to Cuivienan?

Of the Periannath

Submitted by Danel on March 31st, 2023
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At the edge of the Old Forest, the two Noldor wait a while, and watch. Leaving their horses to graze, they consider the race that inhabit the lands before them. 

"Would you trade your knowledge of the evil that lies beyond these lands for a life as simple as theirs?" Estarfin asks Danel.

Danel ponders a moment, "If my life was a short as theirs, possibly aye."

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No Return to Cuivienan?

Letter to Belegos

Submitted by Danel on March 31st, 2023
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We agreed when we met in Imlad Gelir that we would ride to the coast, to Celondim initially. Having spent a few months wandering, perhaps spending a few months in one place, and that a place Estarfin had said he would like to see again, would be a good thing to do.

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No Return to Cuivienan?

Of Belegos

Submitted by Danel on March 29th, 2023
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I run ahead in my retelling of events. Something came to pass more recently that the tale of our wanderings East of the Hithaeglir need wait a little. 

Chronicle link: 
No Return to Cuivienan?

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