A Tree Named Celeborn
Author: Himring
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: PG
Warnings: reference to war and politics
Characters: Finarfin, Edhellos (Eldalote, wife of Angrod)
Disclaimer: Tolkien tells us about the resettlement of Tol Eressea, at the end of the First Age, but there is little explanation or detail. Also, we know almost nothing about Angrod's wife. I made her a leader on Tol Eressea.
Summary: After the War of Wrath, what was originally planned as a temporary stay (a kind of moral quarantine) on Tol Eressea turns into a permanent settlement. And so we also get another chapter in the history of the White Tree(s).
[Read the drabble]There was an uncomfortable silence. The truth had to be faced. The evacuees from Beleriand would need to stay longer in Tol Eressea than planned. Despite their pitifully reduced numbers, tensions were still too high to allow return to the mainland. Tirion was struggling to reintegrate veterans of the War of Wrath, as it was.
‘We will focus on turning Avallone into a proper city,’ said Edhellos, firmly.
‘I brought you a seedling of Galathilion for the town square,’ said Finarfin. ‘This one is named…Celeborn.’
Edhellos grinned. The atmosphere lightened.
‘Maybe Celeborn will meet his namesake tree here one day!’
A/N: Yes, the Tree of Tol Eressea and the character Celeborn have the same name (although Tolkien changed his name about the etymology of the character Celeborn's name later, apparently, so that they would only seem to be the same). This drabble is also one section of a prompt fill on the subject of trees at the tolkienshortfanworks community.