Faded Legends

by nyx thranduillon

Another short poem I wrote after re-reading RotK for the umpteenth time and realising that with the ending of the story, something beautiful had just passed away, never to be regained.

Faded Legends

A final goodbye and the last ship will sail,

The white gulls are calling an end to the tale.

No more will the fair folk be seen on these shores

Slipping to fable, remembered no more.

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Halflings and naugrim will all pass away,

And the ship as it sails out of sight of the bay,

will turn to the west where undying lands lie,

needing no hand to guide it, so straight will it fly.

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An elf and a dwarf will be carried aboard

the last of their kind to depart from these shores.

And as history turns into legend and myth,

Mankind will forget what it is that they miss.