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Acknowledgments:
•I want to send a huge THANK YOU!!!! to my artists Stormbrite, Lynndyre, and Jilly_james. They were all great to work with. You can check out their awesome art HERE. Stormbrite and Lynndyre's AO3 posts can be found HERE and HERE.
•And another huge THANK YOU!!! to my betas Larienelengasse and Jilly_james. They were both great to work with. All remaining mistakes are mine.
•Thank you everyone who read this and I hope you enjoyed it!
Terminology:
•Leech - archaic word for healer or physician
•"Ada" - Sindarin for Dad
•"Adan" - Sindarin for Human Person (see below)
•Eryn Galen - Greenwood the Great
•Esgaroth - Lake-town
•Celeduin - River Running
•Hithaeglir - Misty Mountains
•*Emyn Engrin - Iron Hills (rough translation)
General Notes:
•Story inspired by this HK prompt.
•The title Dragon-spell comes from The Hobbit: "Bilbo was now beginning to feel really uncomfortable. Whenever Smaug's roving eye, seeking for him in the shadows, flashed across him, he trembled, and an unaccountable desire seized hold of him to rush out and reveal himself and tell all the truth to Smaug. In fact, he was in grievous danger of coming under the dragon-spell."
•I have assumed that Dorwinion is an Elvish kingdom in this fic.
•The Hobbit takes place in TA 2941. The White Council where Gandalf definitively identifies Sauron as being alive in Dol Guldur takes place in 2850 (this is also the same time that Gandalf meets up with Thráin and gets the key of Erebor). That's 91 years earlier than The Hobbit. I don't know if Thranduil was on the Council but I think it likely he would be told what was discovered in his own forest or at least suspect it. So Thranduil has known for almost a century that he shares his forest with Sauron.
It says in Unfinished Tales, "But there was in Thranduil's heart a still deeper shadow. He had seen the horror of Mordor and could not forget it. If ever he looked south its memory dimmed the light of the Sun, and though he knew that it was now broken and deserted and under the vigilance of the Kings of Men, fear spoke in his heart that it was not conquered for ever; it would arise again." I had these two pieces of information in mind when I explored Thranduil's motivations for initially marching on Erebor.
•Note about the word "Adan" - I know this should be a term exclusively used for the Dúnedain at this time period but I couldn't find another singular Sindarin term for humans (that also didn't have slightly negative connotations). I figure that since Thranduil isn't near the Dúnedain, he uses the older, broader usage of the term.
Original Characters:
•Beriedir - Sindarin for Protector (beriad+-dir)
•Nethril - Sindarin for Healer (nesta-+-ril)
•Seledhel - Silvan for Wise Elf (sel+edhel)