Title: Long Night's Journey
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Trip
Other prompt:
Rating: G
Length: 50
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zhie, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: What a long, strange trip it has been


Oh, Tree-light, gem-light, phosphor glow
Darkness subsuming, smothering sight
Defiant lamps, flames, fire and hope
Starlight, snow-light, ice-light
Until at last the light of moon and sun
And ordinary time resumes

And darkness now means something
Other than it ever did before
As blades shine bright
To ward and warn