Celandine's Chronicle (celandineb) wrote in cels_fic_haven, @ 2007-08-08 14:34:00 |
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Entry tags: | lotr fic dwarves, lotr fic elves |
LotR fic: Departing [Haldir/Melpomaen implied, general]
Title: Departing
Author: celandineb
Fandom: LotR
Characters: Arwen, Elladan, Elrohir, Gimli, Haldir, Legolas, Melpomaen
Rating: general
Summary: At the end of Elessar's life, others also chose to depart from Middle-earth.
Note: This story is dedicated to Wídfara's memory, in the hope that a ship did bear her across the sea.
The king is dying.
Rumor ran quickly through the lands, and at its coming, many wept. Few or none were there among mortals who could now recall the days before the return of the king, and though his son was deemed a good man and worthy successor, still, the death of Elessar would be a loss hard to bear.
In Lothlórien, the few Elves who remained turned to each other and nodded gravely.
"What will happen to the queen? Did she not choose mortality to be with him?" asked Melpomaen.
"We will simply have to wait and see. Like Lúthien, I would think she will have the choice of when to depart. She spent much time here, as well as at her father's house in Imladris – she may wish to see Lórien again before she accepts her fate," said his companion Haldir.
"It is our duty to be here for Celebrían's daughter, should she come." Lórindol spoke with the authority of the eldest among them. "We have stayed all these years because we would not suffer our land to be abandoned, not while the king and queen lived. We will abide yet a little time more, until Undómiel is gone."
That winter the snows and rains fell abundantly across all of the king's realms, and the sun hid herself behind the clouds.