Elenwë drowned.
A little over five centuries ago she and a fraction of our host fell through the ice into the waters below.
I failed to save you. And truly
[...] you let go so that I would go for our daughter instead. There's not a day that passes that I don't think of that, Elenwë. Five centuries is not a long time in our counting, but a lot has happened since then.
And coming to this place--you were returned to me. My brother was returned to me, and my father, and my mother. And my daughter.
My daughter who outstretched her hand in those frigid waters and cried for me and her mother. And now I have lost her to this place.
She
hated it here. She hated how wretched people are, and could not understand such cruelty or such hostility. I encouraged her to try to understand, but I wish now I had kept her from it all, so few are worthy of her joy or being in her presence. The world is darker now for her having left it and none shall come close to the spirit that was inside her ever again. Itarillë, sparkling brilliance, and child of my heart.