She looks so much like Celebrian, thought Dadrantor,
and yet younger. Nay, her looks are different. . .
Thinking twice about joining the two other elves with the dwarf,
Anyway, the dwarf might think all the elves in this inn are beginning to gang up on him, Dadrantor decided to approach the other elf-female who seemed strangely familiar.
Most definitely a Finarfin Elf. Yet she hath blue eyes unlike any of her kindred. If she did not look so familiar I would have mistaken her as one of the Vanyar
come back to Middle-earth.
"What are you thinking?! Do you realise we can't be wasting our money on drinks?! Do you realise that is all the money we have?! You're going to lead us to a life of begging!"
Dadrantor looked for a while at the shouter, then turned to walk towards the Finarfin Elf, or so he deemed.
No point in staring. . . thought he, hoping not to humiliate the shouter nor her already embarrased companion.
But just as he reached the elf-female, one of the women (he was not sure whether it was the shouter or her now furious companion) ran into him and was knocked backward into a chair which tipped her onto the floor.
The greeting Dadrantor prepared for Galadel died on his lips as he stooped to raise the fallen woman, saying, 'Hullo! Are ye alright?'
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IMPORTANT NOTE! Parin Stonemouth, as you all already know, is a she-dwarf. Dadrantor committed a common error among other races because it has been said that she-dwarves
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The other elves were able to detect the difference but Dadrantor, being suddenly distracted by both the sight of a familiar face and later an accident was not able to perceive the truth. He might later learn his error to his great embarrasment.
[ December 16, 2002: Message edited by: Estel the Descender ]