Eltínuviel

Epilogue
Disclaimer: I love LOTR...I don't own it.

XxDragon Princess NikkixX: Thanks for telling me what that was.it was getting annoying not knowing.

Eliza: As you'll see after you read this chapter, there's no room for a sequel, but I'm currently working on a companion story that isn't on FanFiction.Net yet.

Lady of Legolas: If you mean the time after the wedding, no. This is the Epilogue.

Author's Note: Elessar II and Beren are my own creation. The details of Eldarion's death and Elessar II crowning were taken from The Return of the King with some changes to make it fit better.
Thorwen sat by Eldarion's bedside. It was mid-day and Eldarion Telcontar, High King of Gondor, aged two hundred and five, was finally dying. Knowing that he had less than an hour left within the Circles of the World, he had handed down the Crown and Scepter to their son, Elessar II. He had dismissed all servants, wanting none but his wife to be with him in his hour of death.
Elessar II stood in the Field of Cormallen, and for all of Minas Tirith to see, set the winged Crown of Gondor upon his head. He then took the Scepter of Annúminas from the hand of the kneeling Beren son of Barahir, great grandson of the Lord Faramir, late Prince of Ithilien. Beren then shouted, "Behold the King!" though to Elessar, it was no more than the slightest whisper. Why should it be aught more? His father was currently dying in Rath Dínen and he wouldn't be there at the end to say a final farewell.
Then the trumpets were blown, and King Elessar II, which the guards thrust open with bowed heads. He then passed into the city, like his father and grandfather before him. Minstrels could be heard throughout the White City as once again a new King was crowned. Elessar slowly walked through the flower-laden streets up into the palace and away from the celebrations.
"My lord," said Thorwen, "would you leave me so soon? We have had but a little over a hundred years together, which is far from eternity." She cooed.

However, her husband replied, "My lady, 'tis already too late. Do you not hear the minstrels singing, nor see the flower-laden streets? My time is over, for now the reign of King Elessar II, High King of the Reunited Kingdoms has begun. And now I say to you, let our son have his inheritance, for he has waited long and always prepared himself for this day. He will make a good King, for the people already love him. Do not take away our son's joy."

The Queen thought long, but finally she said, "I will not, Lord, for your sake as well as his. But alas, I fear that I shall not last long after your spirit departs. For indeed I know not the ultimate fate of Men, but if there is any chance that or souls would be together after death, I would have it that I follow you to Mandos. And I do not think I would be able to stay, for your spirit only had been tying me to this world for that last hundred years."

Nay, dear lady, for I would have you enjoy the world yet awhile, for your day has not yet come and I deem that you have endurance enough to live on without me."

"Alas, I cannot enjoy the world while you are not by my side. Your dying day shall be mine as well, for I have no wish to go on without you, and I grow weary of the land of the living."

Then Eldarion sighed, and knowing that he had but a few minutes left within the Circles of the World, took his wife's hand and said, "Thorwen, right after our wedding, to you remember what I told you?"

Thorwen, confused, nonetheless answered, "Aye, M'lord. You said that no matter what anyone said or did, I would always be your Eltínuviel."

"And to that I hold. Amin mela lle. Namarie."

With that, Eldarion's eyes closed and his breathing stopped. His hand fell limp in Thorwen's fingers. The widowed Queen then threw herself upon her husband's chest and wept, and when she could weep no more, she laid herself down beside him and there died of grief.
So ends this tale, of which many songs have told and has been passed down through the Ages and will be until the world is no more.
*Amin mela lle= I love you

*Namarie= Farewell
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