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Title: Daeron's Lament (#1684)
Author: Haleth
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: The Silmarillion
Description: Daeron's is accused of betraying Luthien's love for Beren to Thingol, but were his motives entirely selfish?
Challenge entry:  Drabble,  Regret
Published: 19 Mar 2005
Updated: 19 Mar 2005
Warnings: 
Type: Angst
Characters: 


Chapter 1 - Daeron's Lament

Let no one say that I did not love her.

She lives still in my memory, her swift feet dancing beneath the trees of Doriath, my flute a poor accompaniment.   Had we continued until the End, I would have been content.

But he came.

She was not herself.

I went to her father with my fears.  A true friend could do no less. 

But forbidden fruit always tastes the sweeter.

And now she is forever sundered from her people.  

I can no longer bear to be in Doriath.  The forest glades echo with the memory of that which is gone.
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