The elfling had been born in the valley of Imladris known commonly as Rivendell.
His Adar looked upon the lake and waterfalls and named him Ethirdir after the river.
Tall and raven-haired was he with eyes of emerald green.
He loved the elreth maiden Linadulinneth her voice was soft and bright as birdsong, her hair dark brown as the earth and eyes gray-silver of the moon.
He swore himself to her and under the stars they wed one night.
Many years passed away.
Linadulinneth desired a child but though her heart and soul were strong her body was frail.
The child died before it lived and so distraught was she that all her joyous songs turned to lamentation and she never desired to speak.
She wept forever and a day 'til all her tears were spent and her heart was torn and rent.
Ethirdir looked on in his own despair his eyes plead with her to stop her endless tears.
He took her face in hands gentle and fair and pleaded for her to not grieve or despair.
Her pain was too deep and her mourning too long her inner song had long been lost.
So broken was she that she walked in her sleep and Ethirdir often had to go and search for her in the dark.
By riverside under the many watchful eyes of Lady Varda's faraway stars he found her one eve and was shocked to find her eyes were open wide and gleaming bright.
She turned to him then and did not speak a word, her eyes as bright as they had once been but the sorrow was still there, permanently within her dwelt the pain like some mortal sickness but far more terrible.
She turned away from him then and he saw the last shutter close, she had shut out the world and there was nothing more.
Not even he could pull her away from the river shore even as he ran.
Linadulinneth did not turn back around, and Ethirdir watched her jump into the rushing river sound.
To drown her grief and joy and song and her body was taken by the rushing current.
Ethirdir never left the river, to be away from it was to be away from his beloved, for he heard her voice now echo in the river's song.
Lady Varda is one of the Valar.
