Disclaimer: I do not own the Bible, the Silmarillion or Maglor, though I wuv him 3. I only own my OCs – that will appear in later chapters.
I supposed Professor Tolkien had some of his ideas from the Bible, as he himself is a Christian. So I thought of this… Criticisms are greatly appreciated and are encouraged to do so. Enjoy!
amebane: Thank you :) I agree with you in that. Melkor deserved much worse than Maglor TTATT Poor Maglor was alone…
Crossing Paths
It was during the Fifth Age of the sun and moon – if he had counted right – that he had traveled near the shores in a country called Israel. He was much older than the sun and moon itself, and was the last elf on Middle-Earth – which was now called as Earth – as long as he concerned. The most ancient creature on Earth he was, as he may no longer return to his birth land, Valinor.
Men were short sighted, history no longer remembered but rather forgotten. People calling themselves Jews, priests, high priest, et cetera, but no longer had they remembered that they were of the same kin. Killing their own kin, it was happening over and over again – reminding him of his very own bitter past of kinslaying.
A Son of Man he had seen with his elven eyes, doing such things impossible – He had divided two fishes and five loaves of bread into million pieces – that fed thousands of people around him, filling their empty stomachs, and when the fragments were taken, it was twelve baskets full. And in that instant, he had known who he had seen.
Eru Ilúvatar had descended into human kind, as Canafinwë himself had seen that the humans had became too sinful; adultery, murderers, and of those kinds of evil had spread throughout the lands he was traveling. He had heard of a prophecy spoken by the priests hundreds of years before this time that the One will come to the Earth and erase the sins of Man.
He smiled ruefully. He indeed wanted to be forgiven, but he could not forgive himself because of what he has done in the past; of which, Man had lost their morale quite a few hundred years back. His sins and burden will not be erased, if that was the case. This path he has chosen, and he was no Man, he was a Noldo Elf!
The last Elf of Middle-Earth, of the history no longer remembered by Man. The last and only Elf of Middle-Earth who has crossed paths with Him – who had descended to Earth as Man.
He put his hand over his heart and bowed to the Son of Man, before going to his own way.
He had not seen that He had looked at him with a gentle and compassionate gaze – that probably would make him cry because of His mercy and wisdom; the wisest being of all, wiser than his mother Nerdanel the Wise and himself, who had lived on Earth for five Ages – as he walked away. But he had known, that He knew of his choice, and He will give him strength until the end of time, that he will not fade into the Halls of Mandos, but tell the others of Him, and the Valar and Maia around him – of which Man now called them as Archangels and Angels.
