~*~*A/N: I'm really asking for it. This is now the fourth story I'm working on at once. This idea just won't leave me alone, and I'm drying to write it. So...here it is. Enjoy. This one is for Carrie, because she's an Elf-fancier.*~*~
~*~*DISCLAIMER: I don't own them or the song in this chapter. Please. If I did, don't you think I'd be doing something a wee bit more productive than writing fanfiction?*~*~
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\*PROLOGUE*/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Erëssea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not; land of my people for ever!"
And so once spoke Legolas Greenleaf, before walking away from his companions, over the hill, once the War of the Ring had come to an end. Many things were to happen afterwords, such as the crowning of the King Elessar, the royal wedding of Gondor, and the Master Samwise Gamgee becoming mayor of The Shire. Many moons later, on the scrolls of time, it had been written that Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down the Great River, Anduin. The tales go on to say that Gimli, the Dwarf, went along with him. It has been inferred that Gimli, son of Gloin, followed Legolas to the ends of the Land in the hopes to, once again, see the Lady Galadriel. But even that cannot be said for sure, of course. There is only one thing that can be told, when asked of Legolas's ship: "And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring". Those are the last words that anyone of Middle-earth origin can recall, regarding the nine. For that is all that is known.
But there is more to the story of Legolas Greenleaf and Gimli, Elf-friend. Perhaps there is no record, no written document, but that does not mean that the tale ended that day, in the year of 1541. Quite on the contrary.
Take caution, dear reader, for you are about to embark on the journey that has been whispered in the ears of none. What you are about to learn has not been told...has not been passed down the generations. It is a tale that is not known to any being, except, for those who live beyond the Sea. It is within the depths of the waters where our story will take place. And it is at the horizon - where the sky meets the Sea - where it will begin.
~*~*DISCLAIMER: I don't own them or the song in this chapter. Please. If I did, don't you think I'd be doing something a wee bit more productive than writing fanfiction?*~*~
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\*PROLOGUE*/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Erëssea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not; land of my people for ever!"
And so once spoke Legolas Greenleaf, before walking away from his companions, over the hill, once the War of the Ring had come to an end. Many things were to happen afterwords, such as the crowning of the King Elessar, the royal wedding of Gondor, and the Master Samwise Gamgee becoming mayor of The Shire. Many moons later, on the scrolls of time, it had been written that Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down the Great River, Anduin. The tales go on to say that Gimli, the Dwarf, went along with him. It has been inferred that Gimli, son of Gloin, followed Legolas to the ends of the Land in the hopes to, once again, see the Lady Galadriel. But even that cannot be said for sure, of course. There is only one thing that can be told, when asked of Legolas's ship: "And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring". Those are the last words that anyone of Middle-earth origin can recall, regarding the nine. For that is all that is known.
But there is more to the story of Legolas Greenleaf and Gimli, Elf-friend. Perhaps there is no record, no written document, but that does not mean that the tale ended that day, in the year of 1541. Quite on the contrary.
Take caution, dear reader, for you are about to embark on the journey that has been whispered in the ears of none. What you are about to learn has not been told...has not been passed down the generations. It is a tale that is not known to any being, except, for those who live beyond the Sea. It is within the depths of the waters where our story will take place. And it is at the horizon - where the sky meets the Sea - where it will begin.