I got the idea for this drabble from the October illustration of "The Burning of the Ships" in my Ted Nasmith 2009 Tolkien calendar. It's been a very long time since I've done this so please let me know what you think…..
Heroes Always Come Home
By Ceana
Father once told me, "No matter the journey, heroes always come home."
We heroes demanded justice. We took a sacred oath to exact revenge and get back what was taken from us. Thinking that with victory, there would always be forgiveness.
But it all went wrong.
We needed ships, but they said, "No." No? We took them anyway and the dead piled ever higher in our wake. Now the heroes of the Noldor watch those same ships burn. The flames etching a new word on the wind…Betrayal! Our sins gather - condemning us.
Alas, the Kinslayers can never go home.
