Authors Note: I own nothing. This is an epic poem that I wrote, and this is the first poem I have written.
The Fair Elf Maiden
Never did she speak her name, nor did I
I was young then, and yet to understand
She was thrice my age
Yet in her eyes where thousands of years
I saw a fair elf maiden
The years past, I changed, but she did not
Her hair was the color of the rich earth
Her eyes were the color of a storm day
Her skin paler than most of the people I knew
Thus she was the fair elf maiden
The seasons grew on, I aged but she did not
Light radiated off of her and onto the grim halls
Her strength rivaled the strongest of us
Her hope brighter than the leaders
Soon she became the forgotten elf maiden
In dreams, I saw her
Her strength rivaled the builders
Her courage and bravery rivaled the runners
Her leadership rivaled the Keepers
Rivaled everything the perilous elf maiden
She was there when I was free of the Maze and the Scorch
Long we walked under the starlight inside the prison of WICKED
Long she taught me the speech of her people
Arwen, Vanya, and Vendethiel I called her, yet she never answered to one
She became the nameless elf maiden
"Belong to no edain I do
To the forest, I do belong
The trees beckon me
The stars tease me"
Said the free elf maiden
My heart I gave to her
"I love you," I said
My heart, I handed to her
Her eyes looked on with sorrow
My heart, I gave the sorrowful elf maiden
A day came when I saw her leave
Against the green, she flew
Flew from my sight and love
She left for the freedom of the wilderness
So flew my beloved elf maiden
I followed her to a wood
Tarried not she did as she ran
My heart flew with her
Her youth betrayed her durance
Ran did the youthful elf maiden
Escaped into the wood she did
The dark wood did not hinder her light
Her light shone brighter
Alas I stopped when a bridge separates us
The bridge separated me from the starlight elf maiden
She saw me and faced me
"Let go this chase
Go back I cannot
Let me go," she said
Said the wary elf maiden
She bolted from my sight
I caught up with her in a thicket
Giant spiders attacked her
Fended them off she did
Fought the warrior elf maiden
The last I saw her that day
She stood among her people
Noble, she was among them
Arwen I named her in my heart
Named the noble elf maiden
Led her off the leader did
Led my heart away
Sauntered my pride
Shepperd away the woman I loved
I loved the stray elf maiden
Her light remained with me for many years
The light broke through many shadows
Night could never sounder the memory
Her light kept the dawn in my life
The dawn of the radiant elf maiden
Saw her once more I did
In my dream, she was there
Arrayed in the very starlight she came from
Kissed her I did
Kissed the immortal elf maiden
Her hair softer than anything I have felt
Her eyes lighter than the stars that surrounded us
Her skin more luminous than the moon
Illuminated she was
I laid eyes on the illuminated elf maiden
So my dream drifted away
Like a wave, it left
And carried away the elf maiden
My mind shall forever remember her
Remember the glorious elf maiden
A day came when I remembered my past
I remembered the fair elf maiden
There she always was
Never ceasing there
She was the immortal elf maiden
My friends tried to fade her from my memory
Failed they did to release Vandethiel
Fade she never would
Crisp, she stayed in my mind
Stayed the embrittled elf maiden
Among the trees, I wondered
Always looking I am
Sometimes I spied her from running
Her form gliding across the hills and valleys
The form of the elusive elf maiden
After long searches I found her
It was on a dirt road somewhere
Her eyes were alive
She came alive away from men
Alive the silver-eyed elf maiden
She was arrayed in blue the color of a cloudless sky
Straighter her now chocolate colored hair was
Taller she stood before me than last I saw her
Stronger she had become
There stood the lost elf maiden I had found
"Thomas," she said, "you must let me go"
Her hand was neither warm nor cool against my skin
"My time will soon draw to an end"
She withdrew her hand from my cheek
Withdrew the solemn elf maiden
"I must know this before I give up the chase
Do you love me? I have given you my heart
I love you with everything I possess
Tell me if you do," I confessed
Confessed to the fair eyed elf maiden
More solemn she became before answered
"I gave my love to an edain long ago
Before the newly fallen WICKED took me
He must be dead now," she answered
Answered the grieving elf maiden
"What was he?" I asked the elf maiden
She looked at me with confusion
Her hand slid onto my left cheek
She quivered before she answered
Before the fearful elf maiden answered
"He was nobody special, but he had stolen my heart
He was no warrior, but he was kind
His father was a tradesman
I paid the price to love on that would die"
Said the downtrodden elf maiden
"He loved me," she continued
Prepared he was to leave everything for me
It was to see him that WICKED took me
Often do these love stories of the children of elven kings end when they are entangled with mortal men"
Ended the prudent elf maiden
I looked at her differently than
Such woe she had faced in the name of love
Such turmoil she had faced for one that would not endure
Such as a maiden of sorrow, Naethvandethiel I renamed her
Renamed the woeful elf maiden
"Has there ever been another would has stirred your heart?" I asked
Her eyes were now somewhere else
"You must bury your love for me, for soon you shall never see me again
She said with great strain in her voice
Said the grey elf-maiden
Like a mist, she glided away
I ran after her and she stopped
She pulled out a leather bound book
She handed it to me
Given from the philosophical elf maiden
"Here is the history of my people," she said
"You shall understand my indifference."
The book was strange in my hands
She left as though she was a bird flying in the wind
Left the dove elf maiden
I went back to the settlement where I dwelled
Nobody acted as though I left
I went into the house where I lived
I sat and read the stories of the people of the elf maiden
The kin of the mysterious elf maiden
Long hours I spent pouring over the stories
In her, I saw the beauty of Luthien and Arwen
In her, I saw the wisdom of Galadriel
Through her, I understood the eldar of these tales
Through the Silvan elf maiden
I did not understand her purpose till I came to the stories of the eldar and edain marriages
I wept when Luthien died, yet I rejoiced when she chose to resurrect for a mortal life
Tragic did these tales end
Then I understood what she wanted me to learn
I wept for the heartbroken elf maidens
I saw her one last time
I was traveling more north than usual
From behind a tree, I saw her walk as though entranced
I followed her to see where she goes
I followed the tranced elf maiden
She walked for miles nonstopping
She would sing at some points
At these times, it encouraged me to keep going.
The song of the elf maiden kept me going
The song of the enduring elf maiden
She came at last to a carven gate
I followed her inside
Through passageways, I followed
Dignified she moved through the fortress
She was the noble elf maiden
"My time in Arda has passed," she said.
"It is time for me to go to Valinor, for the sea calls me
I must leave now," she said
The elf maiden walked over to me
Walked the hopeful elf maiden
"You once asked if someone retook my heart," she said
"Someone has recaptured my heart"
Her hand glided behind my neck
Her lips touched mine and I knew what she meant
She loved me, the inflamed elf maiden
I watched as my beloved boarded the ship
I had to let her go, for her time was up
"We will meet again at the end of days," she said
The ship left the harbor as I saw her form disappear
Disappeared the mysterious elf maiden
I went back to my dwelling
I never left the settlement to search for her
She will never come back again
I sat and started to write to preserve her memory
The memory of the fading elf maiden
Now a sea separates me from my lover, the dying elf maiden.