Ceruill is a young bard who earned the title of Hirlin (Master Singer) at an unusually young age, winning the Bardic Congress in Amon Thranduil in 1996 by acclamation. Ceruill's poetry is mostly lyric, lighthearted. Much of it takes the form of lighthearted love songs from when he wooed and won his lady Ophiel of Amon Thranduil. Oddly enough, he is also Rhunedhel's first cousin four times removed, and his heir, wherein it appears lies a tale. Ceruill was briefly exiled from the Valley, for provoked beyond belief by the insolence of an ignorant man, he used raised his voice to use song as a weapon. He died in an orc attack while traveling to the Bardic Congress in Amon Thranduil.
Eledurima is a princess of the Laiquendi, the green elves of Ossiriand, and an independent spirit who loves beauty and wanders under the stars. She formerly played Arwen. Here are some of the poems she wrote during the two years she was Imladris' First Lady:
She is now dwelling in Lindon, where many of the Laiquendi now linger.Laurarien, daughter to Finarfin's son Aegnor, might be termed the black sheep of the house of Finwe, disappearing during the War of the Last Alliance, and only recently has rejoined other elves in Imladris. Some of the complex of emotions motivating her can be gleaned from her poem Going, Home. There was a degree of scandalized comment about her even before her true identity became known, as she preferred the rough life of a forester to ladylike entertainments, and once displayed an apparent romantic interest in Rhunedhel, an interest he did not appear to return.
These days she sports a silver ring given to her by Losifal.
However, of late he has found new hope and love in his betrothal to Lindale.
The Courtship of Comfrey Boffin
A Noldo lady with a strange history, Oremir's songs are full of both beauty and regret, whether she sings of the passage of time (An Elf-Maid's Lament, or the beauties of Lorien's gardens in Valinor (To Lorien.)
Rhunedhel is, an Avar prince from the Uttermost East, tarrying for now at least in Rivendell in preference to sailing West.
Rhunedhel is still writing a series of alliterative epics about Elvish life in the East of Middle Earth, a subject about which Tolkien has told us almost nothing. These are his Songs of the East. The longest - and best - is his Redemption of Daeron, which tells a tale of Daeron, the elf who loved Lúthien but lost her to Beren, and ended up wandering in the east singing of Lúthien (whom he thought lost) beside dark waters.
He also wrote a pair of Wedding
Songs for online, IC marriages, and a long ballad, The
Song of Clip the Hobbit, which is an accurate retelling of a sequence
of events which took place on the MUSH in 1995. There is also a cycle of
bittersweet love
songs. Therein lies a tale: he seems to have mistaken Eledurima for
his wife Oremir, who had died in the fall of his home in the East, and
whom he hoped would be reborn in time. Eventually, they were reunited,
and Oremir dwelt in Imladris for a time, though she is now living in Lindon,
dealing with bitter memories from her past.
A simple Linnor. And a seemingly simple song. Judge for yourself!