Well, in the books that we all love, the literary Master J.R.R Tolkien never really elaborated on what happened when the last of the company reached the Grey Havens. I am about to do so, but I'm incorporating the story into a sequel on one of my others, called Tears of Blood. This is my own interpretation of what happens at the Grey Havens.

Disclaimer: none of the characters do I own, but I wouldn't mind having Aragorn or Legolas…..::smacks herself:: but yeah, they belong to Tolkien…bow down before the master!!!!!!!

This takes place after the end of the trilogy, and it ties in greatly with Tears of Blood.

Prologue

Enriqua moaned as she rolled over, the lights around her almost blinding her…what had happened? She squinted her eyes so that perhaps she would be able to look around her, but she wasn't, so she simply let her eyes open and adjust to the light around her. Where was she? She had no memory of ever being at this place, all she had remembered was…a Nazgul…and great amounts of pain…and…

Death. I died, she thought. I should not be here. I died, I died, I died, I died! The thought ran over and over again in her head…she should not be here…

"And yet you should, child." A woman's voice awoke Rinq from her insane mumbling. "You still have things that have not yet been finished. A person you must meet again. That is why you are here."

"Galadriel? Don't tell me that you died too. Why is everybody dead!!!!!"

"We are not dead, girl. We are in the Grey Havens. Although I am quite surprised that you are here. For you did die, after wishing that all of us would forget about you… And yet it seemed only Legolas cannot remember you."

"What are the Grey Havens?"

"Where the Elves go after they have grown weary of the eastern shores."

"Yet I did not grow weary of it. I was killed."

"And you have something you must do, so you were spared. The powers of light are strong within you."

It took a few moments for this to set into Rinq's mind…she had died, but she was here. She had felt her spirit leave middle earth, and yet she was there, in full body and mind.

"Or perhaps you did die, but the light is so strong in you, it could not be extinguished." Galadriel had pulled herself up to her full height and was looking down at Rinq. "Either way, this must be accepted by you, young one."

"Yes… I cannot change this…" She shook the conflict out of her mind, but then questions sprang to her mind, and she could not hold them inside of her. "After I died…Did the Dark Lord come back to power? For he must have…but…this does not make sense!!!" She stomped her foot. "Has my spirit been floating around in the air for the…how many years has it been? For you surely must have heard of my death… Lady, I must get answers!"

"It has been almost three years since you were slain. I do not know what happened to your spirit. But you are here now, and you must rest…Did you forget that you are now home?" The Lady smirked, having evoked something inside of Rinq's head. "You are of the Family here, Enriqua."

"This is all coming so fast, as if I was riding a horse through a grand countryside but I had not the time to even glance at it, but I only see the blurs rush by the sides of my face. I do not know… this is a dream…for this cannot actually be. I was content with my floating, for I was not even aware of it…yet because of me, many people have died…because the Dark Lord has risen again." A tear fell down her face; not special, but only a tear.

"Yes, Rinq. He has risen. And yet defeated he has been." Galadriel went on to tell Rinq of the many things that had happened while she was gone; the forming of the Fellowship (Galadriel made it a point to make sure that she got the point that Legolas was in it), the return of the king of Gondor, and the sailing of the Elves to the Grey Havens. "The only one of our kind that has not yet returned to us is Legolas, for he went with Gimli, son of Gloin, and wandered the earth. The lady Arwen has forsaken the life of the Elves and married Elleser, king of Gondor."

"He does not remember me, then?" The thought brought tears to her eyes; she was happy that he was not hurt at her death, but she was also feeling sorrow that he did not ever know of her existence. "I suppose it would be for the better, for I chose to not let him feel any pain."

"You accepted his feelings, then?"

"That does not matter, for he is taken from me, and I from him, even in his mind. I should not be here…I thought that my story was over, that when I felt the blade tear through my flesh, that that would be the end of me…and yet it seems as though it is not."

"But it is, Enriqua. You have been given a second chance, for your life was given freely so that Sauron might not rise to his power again-"

"And yet I failed!!!!'

"You gave the greatest thing you could, and that was all that mattered. Everything in the world is not governed only by a darkness. The light that is inside you can not simply be blown out, for you are strong being, Enriqua." Galadriel walked over to where Rinq was sitting, and looked her in the eyes. "You are strong."

*Hey!!! Tell me how you think I'm doing. I've never really done sequels before, and it was really bugging me about how the Grey Havens are never really explained in the books, so I wrote a story about it, as you can see if you go ^ more. He he he he. SO review please, or I won't go on. Flamers welcome, meh I can deal with it!!!!!!!! And I realized that Enriqua sounds more like a cough medicine than a name, LOL!