MEETINGS AND COUNSEL: DRABBLING THE AFTERMATH OF THE COUNCIL OF ELROND

by Wayfarer
(closetwayfarer at yahoo dot com)

Aflame

Summary
Aragorn at the re-forging of the Sword that was Broken.

With the shards, the smith strode to the forge, quickly swallowed by fiery red light.

Amid thundering bellows, a measured ring of hammer on blade, and the deep pounding echo on the anvil rose.

Softly he sang:

Fire and water,
melting and melding:
Un-sundered shall be the Broken

Searing flame of sunlight,
Shard of moonbright cold
rebirthed as the rekindling Hope

Blood-drenched fury binds
grief unforgotten,
ravelled in tears of long years past

Awaken! ancient bane
Glow with life anew
Burn away bonds of silent lament

Eastward speed this fire,
Sever nightmare’s quest
Andúril, hew the dark again to light!

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The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths…. the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold…. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.