orphan

           Time passes for the Elves in different ways than it does for the Mortals.  These differences are apparent in how they each appear and grow as children.  By an Elf-child’s first year from birth, they can walk, talk, sing and dance with ease.  One might happen across a group of Elf-children happily playing and think them all just children of maybe seven years of age &

          It is the Year of Lamentation in the lore of the Elves, a time of deep sorrow and deeper despair.  None of the Elves who set out to battle have returned from the Unnumbered Tears, and only rumors flying down the wind reach the Elves of the Falas.  The tales speak of the armies of the Shadow pouring out of the North, ravaging all the lands from what was once Hithlum and Dor-Lómin south to Arvernien and the eaves of Nimbrethil.  For months after that terrible summer C&