Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky. Three rings representing Air, Water and Fire, also known as Vilya, Nenya and Narya. Nenya was kept safe by Galadriel, Narya by Lord Elrond and Vilya, Vilya was kept safe by me, Caladwen. I am the daughter of Lord Elrond's advisor, Lindir. I am about 1000 year old and the celebration is prepared for. The delegation from Lothlórien and Mirkwood are arriving at the day of my millennium anniversary of conception.
"The delegation from Mirkwood is arriving at the gate, my lord!" Lindir said, storming through the doors to the library.
"Lord Elrond is out at the moment, Ada. Arwen and I will go meet them." I said walking out of the study with Arwen in my heels. We walked really fast down the stairs and halls of Imladris and into the gardens that kept the main gate to our kingdom. "Edra i annon!" Arwen said to the guards, whom followed her order. Into our sight a couple of dozen of horses came. First rode King Thranduil with his wife, Lothiriel, and Elros, his main guard on his right. Behind Lothiriel, Legolas rode and behind Thranduil his oldest son, Sadron rode. The rest of the follow was a couple of royal guards and the council of the woodland realm.
"Welcome, King Thranduil from the woodland Realm. It's a pleasure to have you here for the millennium anniversary for my conception." I said, bowing to the royal follow. The royal family stepped down from their horses which some of our servant sat into the stable. "You've grown more beautiful since your last visit to Mirkwood for Legolas' Millennium anniversary conception." Lothiriel said to me and hugged me.
"I'm not the only one. You are more beautiful than I remember, Lothiriel." I whispered and smiled to her as she went to hug Arwen.
"My lord Thranduil. It's a pleasure to see you again. I hope it's going well in Mirkwood and with your sons." I said bowing to Thranduil.
"There is no need bowing to me, my dear Caladwen." He hugged me while he whispered something. "I think my son, Legolas, has put a liking to you."
"It doesn't look like it." I whispered back and pulled out of the hug. Next was Sadron.
"Hey, Brownie. My mother's right, you have grown more beautiful since the last time." He said, kissing my hand and walking to Arwen.
"That's nearly impossible, my lady Caladwen. You are even more beautiful than the evenstar. No offense, Arwen." Legolas said hugging me tight.
"None taken, my lord. It's a pleasure to see you again." She said, Legolas kissing her hand.
Arwen went back to the studies and I followed Legolas to his room, which apparently was next to mine. "Is it a crime to think of your beauty as illegal?" Legolas whispered to me before went to his room. Which left me thinking, did he really like me?
The following morning was kind of quiet. Arwen had waked me up early telling me to practice one on one fight with her without weapon, and then possibly some practicing with weapons at targets. The one on one fight was quite close, but at I won just barely. The bow and arrow went really well for both of us, but Arwen won by one arrow. And for the final round we decided to throw knifes at a target.
"You really have a good hand with an bow and arrow, my lady." A voice said behind me as I had thrown the knives at the target, hitting the bulls eye.
"You know pretty well that I'm better in a fight." I said facing him. Arwen started cleaning the knives and arrows.
"I'm helping you, Arwen." I said, heading for the quivers and bows.
"No. Let me take it. Now you go change." She said as I reached for the quivers.
"Okay?" I said with a surprised look on my face. Usually she always let me do the dirty work, but something' clearly changed. "Would you care to have a little walk with me, just to the gardens and then to your room?" Legolas said, his hand close to mine. I took his hand following him to the gardens, to our tree. We stood under the tree for a while before heading to my room. In the room Arwen had laid out two dresses. A sky blue one and a lemon green one. "I'm so having the blue one." I said as I stepped into the room. (Blue dress; . )
Tonight there was just a formal dinner with Lord Elrond, the twins, Arwen, Lindir and me from Imladris, from Lothlórien Celeborn, Galadriel and Haldir and from the woodland realm Thranduil, Lothiriel, Sadron and his wife and Legolas.
"Let's make a toast to the lovely beauties of Imladris, Arwen and Caladwen. And let's hope your beauty stays with you for a long time." Lothiriel said raising her glass. Everyone raised their glass and followed her sentence.
"That is some wise words, my lady." Arwen said on behalf of both of us. We had eaten and music was now playing as several couples danced together. Haldir and Arwen danced, as well as Legolas' parents, Lord Elrond and Celebrian, Lindir and Cristiel (my mother), Sadron and my maid, Verya.
"Milady, would you care to dance?" A voice said behind me as I admired the couples dancing to the elven music. I turned around to find one of my favourite blonde elves. "It would be my honour, my prince." I said taking his hand and heading towards the dance floor. He put his right hand on my back as I held his shoulder. He then took my right hand in his left and then we started dancing. "You haven't visited Woodland Realm in a while, milady. Is there a reason behind it?" Legolas said and looked down at me.
"My lord, I have really wanted to, but I fear I'm not as strong to travel to your realm on my own yet." I said, looking slightly down.
"Milady, tell me the truth." He said, his eyes as blue as my dress staring into my soul.
"I am afraid of the future, my dear Legolas. I fear what path the Valar has chosen for me. I fear my visions. I think I'm not as capable when it comes to handling them as my uncle Elrond." I said and smiled at him.
"I think the path the Valar has chosen for you is the right one. What do you think of me, milady?" he said, spinning me around.
"Maybe there is. What I think of you?" I said, with a small laugh. "Well, you are a very charming elven prince whom deserves the best. And you are pretty handsome to."
"Ohh, you think so, do you?" He said, leaning in and his lips touching mine for only a second before I pushed him off. I looked at him, with tears in my eyes as I ran away, down to the gardens and to the pavilion, where Arwen and I always hung out. I sat there for a while before feeling someone behind me.
"There is no use talking me out of this, Thranduil. I think your son made a mistake kissing me." I said, looking out over Rivendell and up at the party.
"E Melant Lle, Caladwen." Thranduil said, sitting down beside me.
"Im harna E." I whispered and tears fell.
"In some ways, my dear Caladwen. He loves you very much and has thought about asking for you hand in marriage for some time. But he was unsure of your feelings for him. What are they, while we speak of it?" Thranduil said, patting my back.
"I don't know, my lord. Right now everything is so confusing, my begetting day being only a couple of weeks from now and now this happening." I said leaning to his shoulder. "I do love him in a way. He's like my best friend ever since I was born."
"And you are his. I think you love him, dear. Talk to him. He is hurt right now and doesn't feel like talking to anyone right now." Thranduil said.
Legolas POV;
Our lips barely touched before she ran away. I stood there, numb in my arms and just went and sat down against a wall. My father slowly followed her. Her mother, Cristiel, motioned for Lindir to dance with my mother and then came straight for where I have placed myself.
"Are you okay, Legolas?" she asked and sat down beside me.
"Do you want the truth?" I said as she slowly nodded. "Not really. I really love her and I've always done."
"You take really good care of her, Legolas. She really needs something like you." She said. "You have my approval if you decide to marry her."
"That's really great to know, but right now I don't think she is capable of speaking to me." I said, feeling my whole body going into a numb state.
Caladwen's POV;
I had a really good talk with Thranduil about what his son had said to him. Legolas had said that he really loved me and wanted to marry me.
While thinking of this I made my way back to the ball with Thranduil right in front of me. As we walked inside the halls silence fell over it. Everyone looked at either me or Legolas whom both seemed hurt. I just stood there waiting for him to do something.
I walked over to him and sat down where my mother previously had sit.
"I'm so sorry, Legolas. I know I hurt you by pushing you off. I don't really know what came over me." I said, taking his hand in mine. By this time everyone had fell silent and pretended to be occupied by something
"But you did anyways." He said, looking at me with tears still in his eye.
"I don't even know why, Legolas. I wished I didn't and that we could have avoided this. Truth to be told, I really liked your lips at mine. And I think that deep, deep inside I have loved you since I first laid eyes on you." I gently lifted the blonde elf's head so he looked at me. Then I leaned in and let his lips touch mine while we heard everyone's cheers.
Edra i annon! – Open the gates
E Melant Lle, Caladwen – He loves you, Caladwen
Im harna E – I've wounded him
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