Disclaimer; I do not own JRR Tolkien's world. I wish I did, but I don't.
So this is my granddaughter's choice. She chooses to forsake an immortal life for love. Love is powerful thing and without it, we cannot be whole.
I am reminded at this time of my own brother. Many years it has been since I have thought of him. I want to see them all again. It is funny to think that when you were young, all you wanted to do is to get away from them, but later you start to see how much you want to see them. But even when I do cross the sea, I will not see one of my brothers. Bound by love, yet forbidden by the nature of his race, forbidden by greed, forbidden by murders to LOVE and to hold onto it! I weep for him, I weep for myself, but why should I weep? I have not lost a brother or father by hand of another Elf; I have lost them by war or fear. So do I have a right to weep? I have lost people I knew by war, but none by fear.
I fear for my husband. He will not be able to leave his home, like I did. Three times has he seen this world change, three times has he rebuilt it, through loss, through death, and he will not leave. Because I don't think he can. Some people may think it was easy for me, to leave all I knew, but it was heart breaking. My heart still breaks when I think of my friends and family who still live on.
Often I wonder where Andreth went. I did not hear of her, although, I admit I did not try with my whole heart. I do not know how, or if she died in the same war. I presume that she died. I imagine at night what would have happened if they had died. I wonder, and I cry, if they would have happened had they gone to Aman and something similar to Tuor and Idril could have happened. But it did not because war forbids love. I cry for they never got to share their lives together. I cry for lost love. I cry for the passing of war and how war forbids love. Will Ilúvatar grant them their wish?
I don't know if Celeborn knows my true weakness. I think he does, but he hides it. It is my family. And much do I miss them, and I will never forget Arwen.
Hope you enjoyed it. :)
Lindale