This outstanding picture was created by Capucine and I am extremely grateful to be sharing this with everyone who has read Feud. Here is a link to her website. A hauntingly beautiful portrayal of the wild elf and there is so much captured in his features. The artist did not elaborate on which chapter this depicts, but I feel it is just after Legolas has received the eagle's feather and accepted his new identity as Tawarwaith. I love that Capucine included the strand of Malthen's hair bound around his left ankle, too.

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"The gifts of Tawar [Great Forest] and Thôr [Eagle] were not lightly granted and he reclaimed the new definition bestowed upon him with a warm surge of pride. Around his bizarre schedule of humiliation he had formulated a plan for completing the Tess Leithadin. Now, the importance of what he was doing was deepened by the addition of a new sense of responsibility.

Swiftly he climbed up into the high canopy, swaying with the sylvan swells as he looked out from his perch over the green sea. The Tasks, he considered, could be more than a way to find a clean death for himself, as Malthen had counseled all those years ago. Somewhere, within the dozen idhrinn [years] past, he had become more interested in the Greenwood and its life, and more disgusted with the growing darkness and boldness of the foul and evil things that blanketed and smothered the vibrancy of its natural splendor.…

He welcomed his new name and title: Tirn-en-Tawar. [The Watcher of the Great Wood]"