This marks a quarter of the way through! Thanks to everyone who's with me so far, most especially CrackinAndProudOfIt, who's reviewed every single chapter, and FortuneZyne, my other regular reviewer. You're all the reason any of these see the light of day!
025: "Silver glass."
Poets wrote tales of the epic journey.
It wasn't simply sentiment; they did. Nerdanel met them, straggling from their white ships onto Valinor's clear shores, the silver expanse behind them unbroken but for the narrow trails of their wake.
The journey into the West was the subject of a thousand pens, artwork orchestrated by those who had been homesick for Aman almost without knowing why, immortalizing the Sea in gorgeous calligraphy.
They wrote, too, of what had transpired in the East. They recorded the deeds done by eight Noldorin lords who would never meet her on these shores.
Bluntly they wrote, and every one of them broke her heart.