Summary: B2MEM 2011 - Day Twenty-three - Dol Guldur – Challenge - Start a story with the line … Everyone avoided the tower. It was believed…(Galadriel & Celeborn)
After Sauron's final defeat, a few days later Galadriel crossed the River herself with Celeborn and many of her people, and broke down the walls of Dol Guldur.
– the Encyclopedia of Arda
The Tower
T.A. March 3019
Everyone avoided the tower on the hill of Amon Lanc; for good reason. For centuries it was believed to have been the Necromancer's private nursery. The laboratory where he had elevated the level of the experiments of his master, Melkor, to an art form, exuviating elven auras, twisting with torture and mutilation the incarnate souls thus stripped to use for selective breeding.
The wizard's report to the White Council had been brief, but horrifying. He had found Thain II in the dungeons, though the king of Durin's folk had been beyond help. But the dwarf had not been the only thing he'd found. Gandalf had returned with a book of names and dates and … attributes …
But she would not think of that book today. Galadriel tossed the long golden braid back over her shoulder as she urged her horse into a cantor, Celeborn keeping pace beside her.
Today the abomination would be obliterated from the face of the earth. She would cleanse the ground as well when it was done, and plant new growth. No longer would Amon Lanc be a place to be avoided. They would raise a cairn in memory of Lothlórien's lost; their people would make of this place a garden, a place of sanctuary and healing.
The evil tooth of Sauron's power had been drawn, she would see restoration begun before her own inherent power began to wane as well, before she returned to the West and the life she had eschewed long ago.
She turned her head, smiled coyly at her spouse, touched her heels to her mount's sides and was off like the wind.