Eledhwen the Green

It has been a bit.

I've been considering a lot of things of late. I am getting older..who isn't?...I am 58 at this point. I am still hale and nearly 100% in terms of walking, hiking, etc. I am in pretty good shape, mostly, all things considered. But it is not only physical things that change with time...it is also the mind.

I am still a raging fangirl of Tolkeins' Middle Earth, that will never change. But my early years were characterized by the Warrior aspect of things. Later the focus was more Ranger and Archer, which dovetailed with other things (medieval hunting). I still do the latter a great deal, but more as a huntress than anything else. More to the point, the flame of my spirit burns steady, but not as hot as it once did, and I find much comfort in a pint of ale, a goblet of wine, a good fire, some friends, and good conversation. There is nothing wrong with this..it is the natural order of things. I have no problems with it.

As long as I am able I will still occasionally galivant around as a Ranger...but these days I am really more....Sage? Druid? Wizard?....something of that sort. Certainly in the manifest world I am a Druid. I would not presume to claim to be a Sage. Wizard...well, a Sorceress perhaps. In my Druid guise I am an Adept, Archdruid, and Ovate...as far as the Orders I study with are concerned. My color is green for most of this...many Druid Orders use colors to signify grade.

Given all of this I perhaps ought to be Eledhwen the Green...a 'sage' (small s). I have the staff, it is easy enough to make the Wizards' (Witch) hat, should I choose to do so. I have a green woolen hooded mantle. Yeah, I could easily be Eledhwen he Green. Perhaps I already am.

I have a long 'wizards' pipe..made of ash. I once used a pipe...I love the smell of pipe tobacco even as I cannot stand the smoke of cigarettes or cigars. Weird perhaps, but there it is. Often unknown by folk is the fact that women have smoked pipes for a very long time. Centuries, in fact. Perhaps not always tobacco in them, but certainly pipes. I have not lit this one...I tend to use it more as a 'thinking' prop. Mind you, I do have a substantial store of Old Toby. ;) I just don't use it.

Then there's my absolute love of hot coffee.

I guess I am in that transitional period from Ranger to Wizard (Witch). Or something. The 'Wizard' (Witch) role fits better these days, in a lot of ways. I do, however, have a lot of friends who are Rangers.

Eledhwen the Green

Note: The word 'Witch' is put in parentheses due to the rather negative connotation it often has in Tolkiens' works.