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Old 11-28-2003, 09:44 AM   #96
Mithadan
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So it was that a deed of great renown was achieved. For Elladan and Elrohir, accompanied by but a few of their brethren, dared enter into Moria, the Black Pit that once was fair Khazad-dûm, and rescued their mother Celebrian from torment. And when the next morning dawned, they rode with the host of Lorien to the land of the golden Mallorns, where Celebrian was placed in the care of her mother, Galadriel.

For three months they resided there, and Celebrian received such healing as could be offered her east of the Great Sea. Then they rode forth with a guard of many Elves and crossed the mountains through the Redhorn Pass, and no Orc dared assail them as they traveled on to Rivendell. But it is said that Torfithien and Fingil remained behind in Lorien where they dwelt together while the Third Age lasted, until they passed over the sea into the West.

For a while, Celebrian dwelt in the House of Elrond, and happy was their reunion when she returned to Rivendell. Yet their happiness was marred, for a shadow remained upon Celebrian which even the ministrations of Elrond could not lift. The memory of the darkness of Moria and the torment of the Orcs, as well as the death of her faithful servant, Feaelena, weighed heavy upon her, until she resolved over the protests of her husband and her children to seek healing in the West.

On a sad fall day, she rode forth from Rivendell with Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen and a few others besides and rode to the Grey Havens, where they dwelt for a short time as her ship was prepared and hallowed. Then, one evening as the stars emerged and night fell, she stood upon the docks on the verge of the Great Sea and took her leave from her husband and children, and mournful was that parting.

But even as she stood on the foot of the gangway, she embraced her daughter Arwen, and her tears fell like rain. And she said, "My heart forebodes that this will be a parting beyond the circles of this world and that when Elrond and I are at last reunited you will not be standing beside him on the quays of Tol Erresëa. Your fate will take you elsewhere and your hope will remain in Middle earth. Therefore take this for it will give you solace even as the darkness falls, and maybe someday you shall give it to another in token of the last united hope of Elves and Men." And she brought forth a bright green gem that burned with an inner light as if the rays of the sun shining through the leaves of a beech tree had been captured within it.

Then she boarded her white ship and it departed, and passed onto the Straight Road and Celebrian was never seen in Middle Earth again.

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[ 10:45 AM November 28, 2003: Message edited by: Mithadan ]
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