“Yes. Like life itself. No one knows the song of origin of the elves, for they’re outside of time. Yet they’re of this world, though they don’t live in it as you and I do. They show themselves in the forests and waters, where life is strongest. Oh yes, long ere our people came to Eormenlond, long before the Andumae came, and even long before the Dweorgs, elves dwelled in Iltharwyn, the ancient forest that became the Southweald and Northweald after our ancestors came and clove it in half. The Andumae say looking upon an elf brings the death of Anghara, or as we here call her, Angra. The spirit
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