Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-32559432-20170725015642/@comment-31507215-20170726015441

Celeborn of Lothlorien wrote: 7Adunaphel7 wrote: Celeborn of Lothlorien wrote: Fireflies Nice guess. Gonna assume that that means I'm wrong, it fits the first 3 lines... but not the last 2. Fireflies aren't signal fires... It does, in fact, fit all of them.


 * 1) They act like signal fires.  They flash to attract mates and to communicate with others of their species.
 * 2) "A cloak as dark as night" - their elytra are black. "but is revealed come end of sun's light" - they only glow at night.

I can't think of anything else that works, unless you are talking about biouluminescent fungus.