Legolas's Evenstar
Rating : Not rated yet ( I don't know how this will turn out as time goes on )
Summary : Ages have gone by and Legolas is alone with his kind. He wants more.
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Ageless.
This is what I am. Night and day- sun and moon- beginning and end. It was all a haze of repetition. It all means nothing to the ageless.
Here in the Grey Haven, I am Prince Legolas of the Valley of Wood. My age is beyond count as are my memories.
My friends Aragorn, Pippin, Merry, Frodo, Gimli, Arwen, and so many others are now dead again gone. It is easier not knowing what happened to them then to watch them age and gray like dust in the wind before you. Now only with my kind in the endless changeless lands of the Great Grey Haven!
Peace and happiness forever, what that not why I sailed? This is what I wanted was it not? Eternal happiness, eternal peace, eternal loneliness? Is this why I sailed?
The endless sky and ever-plentiful green lands, they were wonderful the first six hundred years. A sanctuary to a lonely single elf without friends.
I took to the trails after Arwen slipped between the fingers of life. I visited the vast world of Grey Haven. I'm sure I have yet to see half of the continent. Upon reaching the farthest known settlement of Elves the word had spread.
Twenty elves that had stayed sailed. That left a good one and fifty still out there somewhere. The elves that had came were mad with shock. The year was 1900 when they finally found each other and sailed. They did not want to live in such a different world, were Middle Earth was no more.
Ent, Orcs, Dwarves, Dragons, Wizards, and so many other natural inhabitant of Middle Earth were gone, never to be seen again. The elves said only myths remained of the creature. The history it's of Middle Earth was gone. Wiped off the slats by the winds of time. The Great King Aragorn was not even a distant memory.
Learn that Man had griped the world in their greasy hands was shocking but not unexpected news. Man reined supreme and elves were safe from the injustices. The Last Alliance of Man and Elf was never again to be though, wistfully thought of by those who had witness the greatness.
It was then I put my pitiful feelings behind me and rushed back home to the Valley where one of the two entrance lakes were located. I hoped dearly that I could speak with those elves of the world now before they dashed off to meet their family.
Half way back home more news spread like wild fire. One hundred terrified elves appeared. A Great Depression had struck the world. In 1939 War broke out in a place called Europe. Elves were scared, very scared. In 1943 when a place called America joined the war Elves ran scared to find their own.
By the time they were ready to go an Atom Bomb struck a country in shock killing so many. It was then the Elves swore they wished no more of Middle Earth, that what they treasure was gone, dead, and not even hinted to in the world they left.
Years after that, I stayed home after speaking with some elves. How could people do that? Kill one another, kill people not even part of the war. I was angry at the race of Man for again ruining the world I had come to love.
Yet, those stories of the legendary machines that ran on... gas? Of the power of electricity, so many miracles for such a savage race. It was about then an aching began. I would wake up every morning and go to sleep every night with this ache. What the ache was I was not sure. It was not visibly life threatening, but I knew it was wearing me away. Everyday I felt a little more of me slip away and I was scared.
I became so filled with fear I traveled to the Valley of Stone where the Twin Kings Elladan and Elrohir ruled in place of their retired father. I looked upon the beautiful kingdom. My Valley was a wonderful shade of green and brown, always.
I did so love my visits to the crystal crystal with it's outer shell of gray stone and inner beauty of crystals. Elladan and Elrohir ran the kingdom wonderfully and everyone was happy.
"Nae saian luume' (it has been long) Legolas!" Elladan smiled.
"Uma (yes) , A century no?" Legolas said taking a seat in one of the seat of the Throne Room.
He looked up at the glass candlier and smiled at the resent addition. Copies of the works of Man on the ceilings. Some over the world's greatest artists no doubt showed by the elves that had witnessed it.
"Malia ten' fion? (would you like some wine)" Elrohir questioned waving his arms to a servant elf holding a gold platter.
"Amin saesa. (My pleasure)" I say thinking of how to broach the subject at hand.
"Papa! Another has come! Humans! Humans have come to the Entrance Lake!" Hothien cried. She was Elladan's oldest child and daughter. She had a honey colored hair and the whitest skin in her kingdom. She was a beauty to be had by any who could claim her heart; Legolas did not want it.
"Yes! Papa! A human lady and child!" Squealed Isaldur. Elrohir's youngest child and son.
"A human? That is not possible!" Elladan hissed standing up and dashing out with Elorhir and Legolas following him.
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Bah! I had to end here. Sorry! ^^;
D-Chan