Strings Of Silence: Book Four

by Cierah

Sequel to Growing Up: The twins again, what else. Something evil grows, the land feels it, what happens when devastation visits the peaceful city of Rivendell? Repost Complete

1. Prologue

Prologue Shattering Souls

All song had stopped. A string had been broken, and the Ainulindale paused momentarily. All turned their heads at the shattering sounds that rang through the halls on the dawning of the day. Their hearts wrenched at the grief and despair that littered the sky turning their song black.

He turned away from the window drawing in a deep breath, his wife at his side always. Together they walked down the white and blue halls towards the end where they were to inform their charges of this grief. The halls of Mandos would soon fill. Long had it stood empty, but no longer, a severed string was not easily repaired.

Taniquetil was silent, all life stopped briefly as they walked. He raised his hand to issue song once more, and all bade to his command. With Ainulindale restored, life proceeded. With a shattering cry, the halls began to fill with despair. It would prove to be the first in many accounts of evil.

Melkor had once again risen.

Ainulindale means The Music of the Ainur. Taniquetil are the mountains that guarded Valinor from Melkor, in the time after the destruction of the Two Trees. This prologue takes place in Valinor with Manwe and his wife Varda.