What We Said Afterwards

Home is behind, the world ahead

Thirteen months we've now been away

Thirteen months spent in beds not of our own

Thirteen months we spent, together, and apart

Thirteen months we've now been away

And there are many paths to tread

So many choices we've made

Whether they were right or wrong we cannot tell

So many things that could have changed

Of the other paths we did not take, we cannot guess the outcome

Through shadow

Together and apart

We've faced battles and choices

Whether together or alone

We've played our parts

Through the Great Shadow and beyond

We are together, in mind, forever

To the edge of night

We faced the Shadow for thirteen months now, thirteen months of danger

All faced many perils; we had one burden, with the peril of the world around his neck

Facing possible death at nearly every turn, we could not give up

Until the stars are all alight

Despite the darkness that creeps closer to those we love

There are always those that offer light and hope unlooked for, when it was needed most

Galadriel of the Elves, Gandalf- some call him the bearer of ill tidings, we say otherwise

Aragorn, son of Arathorn, Ranger of the North, the true King of Gondor, Isldur's heir,

And Frodo, the Ring bearer, bearer of all Middle Earth's hope

Hope was everywhere, all we needed was to think, to remember

Mist and shadow, cloud and shade

Without the hope

All would have perished, the Black Breath would rule

The Ring would join the Shadow

Daylight be extinguished for ever

Despair would never cease

All shall fade

Even now

The light leaves

But of their own accord,

Gandalf the White, Elrond, Galadriel and the others;

All that is fair is leaving, going where we

cannot follow,

and Frodo with them

All Shall Fade

Aragorn, now King Elessar, now rules,

Sauron, Sauruman, all that was evil is gone

The Fellowship lives on, but only in memory for most

Now we return to living our lives without fear,

But without

those we love,

those that held and

gave hope to all.

Author's Note: As much as I wish it were otherwise I do not own the lines in bold (beside's the title). JRR Tolkien/the guys who made the extended edtion dvds do.