grammaboodawg
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Jul 9, 2:05pm
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It's time for some more BS!
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Here is one more Book Spoiler on Cerin Amroth… for a moment of Tolkien-zen.
From the APPENDICES: APPENDIX A: ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS
(v) HERE FOLLOWS A PART OF THE TALE OF ARAGORN AND ARWEN [March 1, 1541] The passing of King Elessar at the age of 210. Arwen Undomiel passed away as a mortal woman one year after the death of Elessar at the age of 2,901]
..."'Lady Undómiel,' said Aragorn, 'the hour is indeed hard, yet it was made even in that day when we met under the white birches in the garden of Elrond where none now walk. And on the hill of Cerin Amroth when we forsook both the Shadow and the Twilight this doom we accepted... ...I am the last of the Númenóreans and the latest King of the Elder Days; and to me has been given not only a span thrice that of Men of Middle-earth, but also the grace to go at my will, and give back the gift…. ...'…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…'
...'…So it seems,' he said. '…In sorrow we must go, but not in despair.... ...We are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. Farewell!'
...'Estel, Estel!' she cried, and with that even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep."
... "…Arwen went forth from the House, and the light of her eyes was quenched, and it seemed to her people that she had become cold and grey as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Then she said farewell to Eldarion, and to her daughters, and to all whom she had loved; and she went out from the city of Minas Tirith and passed away to the land of Lórien, and dwelt there alone under the fading trees until winter came… …the land was silent.
... 'There at last when the mallorn-leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed…"
We have been there and back again.
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(This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Jul 9, 2:13pm)
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