Alkhlokeiel Lokei Alkhlokeiel was born early in the third Age in Lothlorien, to Bragollain of the Green Elves and Penntalien of the Golden Wood. Her name translates roughly to “Rushing with red-gold loops flowing away,” but in childhood she was also called Llachien, which means “Leaping flame.” Bragollain was a chronic wanderer until he met Penntalien. Not long after raising Alkhlokeiel to a responsible age, the urge to wander reigned again and he was injured by a party of raiding orcs somewhere in the Misty Mountains. Both her parents have sailed to the West, and she has no known siblings or other relatives. With bright amber hair and hazel eyes, Lokei is unusual among the generally blond Lorien elves, not least for her looks, but also for her almost ceaseless energy and merriment. She spent most of her life as a tree-tender, caring for the great mallorn trees and helping to provide the plants necessary for the sustenance of Galadriel’s kingdom, as well as serving some time as a Lorien scout, accompanied by her horse Cullachin. Cullachin, the Bright Flame, is similar in both color and temperament to her rider. In her free time, Lokei particularly enjoys singing, dancing, and playing her flute, a gift from her mother and her mandolin a gift from Mithrandir. She is also inordinately fond of swinging off ropes into rivers. Until the arrival of the Fellowship in Lorien, she happily played the jester for Galadriel’s court, but the advent of the Ringbearer and his company spurred her to seek a more fulfilling existence and she began to travel. Her wanderings took her to Rivendell, where she was for the first time seen as an elf of promise instead of one of mere amusement. Once dismissed, now respected, once lonely and now befriended, Lokei’s heart is gladdened by the places she has made for herself in the Bards’ Guild with her sworn-sister Narelen, as well as in the Writers’ Guild and Architects’ Guild. On Alkhlokeiel’s first major quest to Dol Guldur to retrieve the Bow of Amras, she befriended the silver-haired Narelen, and saved her life with a song of healing power she had not known she possessed. Though different in background and occasionally in temperament, Lokei swore to stand ever at her sword-sister’s side. For the others on the quest and in the Guilds she also bears a fierce loyalty and great respect. She is honored to count herself befriended by such as the master bards: elves Soronume, and Galen, and Gerontian, the noble hobbit, among others. Though by nature peaceful and merry, for their sake she would lay down the flute for the bow, and the song of forests and oceans for the song of keen blades and swift arrows. Back to the top Return to the front page of the book