[Lostgaeriel]

And compare this

"I won't say words of consolation, for there's no consolation for a pain that great within the limits of this world; yours is a last choice; either to repent and depart for the Harbors, carrying the memory of the days that passed while we lived together, a memory that will forever be green there, but only a memory; or else wait for the Destiny of Men."

"No, oh beloved lord," she said, "since a long time ago there's no such choice. There are no ships that can take me there, and indeed by force I shall wait the Destiny of Men, either wanting or rejecting it. But only this I will certainly say, oh King of the Númenóreans: until before now I hadn't understood the story of your people and their fall, and I mocked them, thinking them vain and evil; but now I finally pity them. For if this is the gift, like the Eldar say, that the One concedes Men, well, indeed it's a bitter gift."

"Indeed," he said. "But let's not abandon ourselves to pain, we who in other time renounced the Shadow and the Dusk. Sorrowfully we part, but not without hope. Behold! We aren't held forever inside the walls of this world, and on the other side there's more than memory. Farewell!"

to Tolkien's original

“I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men.”

“Nay, dear lord,” she said, “that choice is long over. There is now no ship that would bear me hence, and I must indeed abide the Doom of Men, whether I will or I nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Númenóreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Eldar say, the fit of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.”

“So it seems,” he said. “But let us not be overthrown at the final test, who of old renounced the Shadow and the Ring. In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. Farewell!”

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