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Feveren

Feveren Tawardil, Friend of the Wild

Name Feveren
Status
Active
Occupation
Age
Young (only recently deemed full-grown)
Race
Elf
Residence
The great greenwood of Harlindon, but now he is wandering the Westlands
Kinship
Noss-e-Laegrim
Outward Appearance

Feveren stature   At first sight, he seems akin to any other of the Elven-folk you have seen,1 for he is fair of face and dark-haired; slender, lithe, and light on his feet. But looking closer, you mark that he is somewhat less in stature and girth than is common for one of the Firstborn. Also, he has a merry, carefree air about him and an aspect of unworldliness; thus you deem that he is still young, perhaps even not yet full-grown.2

   His rustic garb is of the colours of the forest, his brow is unadorned, and his feet are unshod; he is girt with neither blade nor bow, but bears instead a stout staff of elm for a walking stick. His honey-hued skin suggests Nandorin descent and you guess then that he is a Silvan Elf,3 but why he has forsaken his secluded woodland home, you cannot say.

 

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1. Assuming that, as a traveller, you have indeed seen folk of the various Elven races that grew from the Sundering of the Elves.

2. "Not until the fiftieth year did the Eldar attain the stature and shape in which their lives would afterwards endure, and for some a hundred years would pass before they were full-grown."
      - Morgoth's Ring, 'The Laws and Customs Among the Eldar'

3. In truth, the Silvan Elves (Tawarwaith) were descendants of the Nandor who lingered in the Vales of Anduin during the Great Journey, and thus denote either the Galadhrim or the Elves of Mirkwood, not the Nandor who entered Beleriand and became the Green-elves of Ossiriand. But to the eyes of the common beholder, they might appear alike (though not to other Elves, no doubt.)

 

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"Tinúviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen..."

 

Sylvani Woodland Tales Fairy Forest
Forest Folk Harbinger of Spring Tree Dwellers
Elfenreigen Guardians Of The Woods Auld Tavern Song

 

"It is one with this gift of freedom that the children of Men dwell only a short space in the world alive, and are not bound to it, and depart soon whither the Elves know not. Whereas the Elves remain until the end of days, and their love of the Earth and all the world is more single and more poignant therefore, and as the years lengthen ever more sorrowful. For the Elves die not till the world dies, unless they are slain or waste in grief..."

   - The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Beginning of Days"

Background

 

Harlindon
                                                                                                             © Mark Fisher

"In Eriador Imladris was the chief dwelling of the High Elves; but at the Grey Havens of Lindon there abode also a remnant of the people of Gil-galad the Elvenking. At times they would wander into the lands of Eriador, but for the most part they dwelt near the shores of the sea building and tending the elven-ships wherein those of the Firstborn who grew weary of the world set sail into the uttermost West. Cirdan the Shipwright was lord of the Havens and mighty among the wise."
      - The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"

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"In the beginning of this age many of the High Elves still remained. Most of these dwelt in Lindon west of the Ered Luin; but before the building of the Barad-dûr many of the Sindar passed eastward, and some established realms in the forests far away, where their people were mostly Silvan Elves."
      - The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Second Age"


Feveren Tawardil

Feveren Tarwardil

.: Feveren Tawardil :.

   It is told that in the War of Wrath the lands of Beleriand were laid waste and sank beneath the deep waters of Belegaer, and Ossiriand (that had of old been named Lindon by the High Elves) was rent asunder and the mighty walls of Ered Luin were broken. Into that great gulf swept the sea, and by a new course the River Lhûn flowed into the firth; and the havens of Mithlond were raised by the folk of Gil-galad upon its shores, whence the First-born can still follow the Straight Road by ship and return to their kindred in Aman, the Blessed Realm, beyond the encircling seas.
   And in the Second Age of the world, long ago, many of the Eldar still dwelt in Lindon, unwilling yet to forsake Beleriand of old where they had lived and laboured long. But there were those who crossed the Ered Luin and passed eastwards into the inner lands, many of whom were survivors of Doriath and Ossiriand; and they established realms among the Silvan Elves in the woods and mountains of Middle-earth.

   The forebears of Feveren were Green-elves of Ossiriand who long abode within its elm-woods aforetime, and who lingered in Harlindon ever after. His mother and father were both born in those green-shadowed woodlands, as were their parents before them, and there Feveren was also begotten in the twilight of the Third Age.
   He was a fanciful elf-child, and all his young life he hearkened to songs and tales of the Elder Days; thus a yearning was kindled in his heart to behold these far distant realms of his kindred, ere his kin take ship over the Uttermost Sea. And now, being but lately deemed full-grown by the elders of his clan who, sensing perhaps a change in the tides of the world, granted him leave to fare forth...

 

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Feveren Tarwardil

Etymology:
Feveren: fe (Nandorin dialect for "soul" - Q. fëa, S. fae) + meren ("festive/gay/joyous")
                 cf. 'Faemheren' in Doriathrin
Tawardil: tawar (Sindarin for "forest") + ndîl ("friend")
Gladlinion: son of Gladlin ("tree-song")

 

Scribblings

.: Notes :.

Concerning Green-elvish Language and Writing
Concerning Age in Relation to Appearance

 


"... little is now known of the Silvan Elvish. The Silvan Elves had invented no forms of writing, and those who learned this art from the Sindar wrote in Sindarin as well as they could."
      -  - Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, "Appendix A, The Silvan Elves and Their Speech"


Tengwar and Cirth transcriptions courtesy of Glǽmscribe

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.: Alas, Feveren is unavailable for RP :.

Friends
Faethurin ("Fethurin")
Beech and oak and elm
Birds and beasts
Glavror and Gwedal
Relatives
Father:
Gladlin Dínalagos
Mother:
Gledhril Silivreneth
Rivals/Enemies
Naught thus far!
(Though he deems Golphedinir an unfriend!)
Loves
Glad greenwoods;
Singing streams;
Glittering starlight;
The silver Moon.
Hates
Despoilers of all that which grows and is glad;
Cruelty and greed
Motivation
To behold the Elven-realms of old that lie beyond Ered Lindon.
Quotes

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