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A/N: Having done a few Dr Who poems, I felt it was high time for a Tolkien one! This is an exploration of the parting between Elrond and his daughter, Arwen, of their thoughts and reactions. I have always thought this love story so very tragic, especially as Elrond seems to be one of the most ill-fated characters in Tolkien's world; nearly everyone he loves leaves him...anyway, read on an enjoy!

The Sundering

My mind is made up and my path is laid;

So strange to think I shall end my days -

A finite span, a limited score

And this world will be mine to see no more.

How alien, this concept: to perceive thine own end -

To know it is there, to exist and apprehend.

How wearisome a thought for mortals to bear

Yet bear it I must, if this crown I wear.

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Say not so, my daughter, your path is not set,

I beg you repent ere you fear and regret;

The world has but one star to glimmer and shine -

And I cannot let you go, daughter, you are still mine.

Millennia of wisdom could aid no Lord now,

Only as a father can I plead thee disavow -

For when Aragorn dies, as must be his fate,

You shall not long linger, when grey life cannot captivate.

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Father, look at me not with your sad, betrayed eyes,

All seasons must pass, all nestlings must fly;

Though always your daughter I am not a child.

Please, grant me your blessing as these late days grow wild.

I know I shall walk beneath dead, bare canopies;

I know I shall pass beyond song and memory -

They Evergreen of Valinor was never my lot;

But remember me, Father, lest these times are forgot.

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She found her own path and I could not interfere -

I could not prevent the loss of her held most dear.

Now she lies upon a hill top in a distant age,

A tomb of white flowers for the whitest of maids.

And no solace will I find in the triumphs of Men -

For all that she sacrificed, they are corrupted again.

So passes Arwen Undómiel, our Queen of Twilight,

And she will ne'er be forgot 'neath the glimmer of starlight.

End

Please R&R

Loadsa love, Estel xxx