Elenbarathi asked for "ents and elves", so this one and the next are for her.
COME BACK TO ME
Of the first to wake the ents was this one, young and wise. And the ents loved him, and went where he went, for he taught them his words and his songs.
Time passed and they lost him, though they sought him long. He was nowhere to be heard.
Many years later, he came upon them, now wrapped in a silence so grievous that it bade the ents to speak of their own loss, that for the first time seemed lighter. Long they spoke of the lost Entwives, and guessed his tale was like, but more hopeless.
At last, a song broke free from him; a shadow, like his name, of his former beauty and glory. His voice was like rust, his language a rough whisper of what he first made, in his own thought, but the ents wept to hear him as he began to sing, "When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf…"