Aiwiel was a High Elf from Rivendell. She often journeyed south to Eregion to wander for a season among its ruins, listening to voices from the past. Aiwiel knew that locked inside the ancient stones dotting the landscape were the memories of many who lost their lives in the war against Sauron, and that many birds still sang songs that were taught to their kin long ago. She knew that because her brothers had worked those stones, and she and her sisters had taught the birds their songs. When they sought the Havens long ago or died in the war, Aiwiel had no kin still living in Middle-earth, and she desperately clung to what memories she was left to mourn. Aiwiel was soft-spoken, wise, and wary of any wanderer she might encounter in the wild. Visiting the ruins, she spent long days sitting against half-crumbled walls of stone, or listening to the songs of the birds. What she heard she kept for herself, but she wouldn’t refuse help to travellers who showed respect for the past and who were not out to depredate the land of its hidden treasures.
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- Adventures in Middle-earth: Rivendell Region Guide
- TOR Characters