Written for Tolkien_Weekly's Summer Sports challenge series.
Water by the Water
Swimming
He watched them from the rocks that hid swollen tide pools. Families with children had come to the shore that day, basking in Anor's warmth, swimming in the waves, and building castles out of sand. The children shrieked and the waves, while parents kept a watch.
None of them noticed him. On this bright afternoon no one was interested in shadows, or ragged shades of the distant past, long forgotten by Men as they thrived on the present.
Only sometimes did someone find him, drawn to the evening shadows beside the sea by the music he still took refuge in.