Second Age

'This place was always dreary, so much cloud.' he said, heading for the bridge.

I looked around, stretching my neck to see the gaps between the houses. 'It is just grey now. No life anywhere. Everything looks the same. No colours, no brightness."

My spirit quailled that he had chosen this for himself, for so long. 

He nodded at my observations. 

'Was that tree alive' I asked, pointing at a bare looking remnant of what had likely been a tall beech.

Danel had oft wondered at Estarfin's period of solitude during most of the Second Age. He agrees to take her to the place he dwelt, before an unattended fire destroyed his livelihood and freed him to move on to Imladris. 

The whole village is now abandoned and mostly a ruin, but he tells her of what it was once like for him. 

"I wish you had chosen to come to Eregion." she says, though she could see him slain in the battles to protect the place had that actually been his choice.