Title: Woodcraft
Characters: Nellas, Túrin, Beleg
Prompt: 012. it's been a while since I've really spent time with you, wish I could take back the times that I had
Author's Notes: Nellas was an Elf of Doriath who befriended Túrin when he was a boy, but as he became older they grew apart. Unfinished Tales mentions that Beleg often led Túrin through the woods, teaching him archery and woodcraft.
…there was a maiden named Nellas, who lived in the woods; and at Melian's bidding she would follow Túrin if he strayed in the forest, and often she met him there, as it were by chance. From Nellas Túrin learned much concerning the ways and the wild things of Doriath, and she taught him to speak the Sindarin tongue after the manner of the ancient realm, older, and more courteous, and richer in beautiful words. Thus for a while his mood was lightened, until he fell again under shadow, and that friendship passed like a morning of spring. For Nellas did not go to Menegroth, and was unwilling ever to walk under roofs of stone; so that as Túrin's boyhood passed and he turned his thoughts to the deeds of men, he saw her less and less often, and at last called for her no more. But she watched over him still, though now she remained hidden.
– Unfinished Tales
Túrin passed through my forest today, but he did not see me. I am not even sure that he was aware of where he was. We came here when he was a boy, and I taught him the lore of trees and other things. He is taller now, and he has grown in other ways. He does not come here very often any more, but I have seen him and Beleg together, and he is learning another sort of woodcraft. He looks at the forest and sees weapons – yew for a bow, ash for spears, elm and hazel for arrows. He sees the trees only for their wood, now. He no longer sees me in them.