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A/N ~ ok…I have a very vague idea of what a mary-sue is…so…if anyone of you would be so kind as to give me a description of a mary-sue I would be extremely grateful. And it would help me to avoid future mary-sue-ish characters/traits.

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            Lirima was leaning against the door to her father's study listening to the conversation Celeber, Galadriel, and Gandalf were having.

"ABSOLUTELY NOT! You know what letting her go would mean!" yelled Celeber. Lirima could sense something in his voice that she had not heard since she was very young.

"My son, you know that you must let her choose her own destiny."

"You can not keep her locked in her room like an animal unable to live her life!"

"So what would you have me do?! Let my only daughter, my only reason for living, walk out of these woods to her death?"

"It is not like that. She has a choice, she can choose to remain with her people."

"You know what her mother predicted before she died!"

"Yes, she knew what would happen to Lirima, and that is why she wanted you to prepare her for her future. Don't you see? Este didn't want you to hold her back, she wanted her to be ready to fulfill her destiny." Lirima heard her father take a shaky breath, she could almost feel his heartache. Her mother had been dead for almost 1000 years, slain by orcs, but he had never gotten over the pain of it. Neither had she, at night she could still hear her mother's voice and see her face.

"I don't want to lose her, she's all I have left."

"Life does not end with death, for men, or elves. No matter what path she chooses, you will see her again."  Lirima heard whispering that even her acute elf hearing could not make out. Then there was a long pause and for a moment she thought everyone had left the room, until she heard;

"Alright, she can go."

            "I giliath lind sinadu." Haldir and Lirima sat in one of the tallest trees in Lorien. Lirima was leaning against Haldir, who had his arms wrapped around her. She loved his strong embrace. When his arms were around her she felt like nothing could go wrong in the world. They were enjoying the last moments they would have together for awhile.

"Ron lin tenlle." Luitha smiled at him. "Why don't you return to Lorien after Bilbo's party? Must you go to Rivendell?"

"Ai Haldir, I haven't seen Elrond, Arwen, or the twins for ages. I won't be gone very long, no longer than a year. And when I return I will be in no hurry to leave again."

"I suppose I shall have to be satisfied with that, your too stubborn to yield."

"Good, I'm glad you realize that." They sat in silence then, listening to the sounds of the woods and gazing at the beauty of the stars, neither wanting to ruin the moment.

            Lirima left with Gandalf early the next morning. She was looking forward to seeing the shire again, and especially Bilbo and Frodo.

"Gandalf, I've just realized I haven't seen Bilbo or Frodo since Bilbo took Frodo in."

" Yes, that's been somewhere around 20 years hasn't it? I sent word to them that you would be coming, Frodo wrote back and said that he was very excited to see us again, especially the fireworks I would be bringing." Lirima looked at Gandalf, but the twinkle he had in his eye did not make her smile as it usually did.

"Gandalf, how did you know I would be coming?"

"Well from what you heard at the door to your atar's study I suppose you already know the answer to that question." Lirima managed a half-hearted smile.

"What troubles you lisse alqua?" Lirima looked away from Gandalf, she almost told him that it was nothing but remembered who she was talking to.

"We shouldn't talk of things like this, we are going to a party. Are we heading straight to the shire?"

"No, I must pick up the fireworks I promised Bilbo. So I need to go visit Cirdan."

"Cirdan? Cirdan the shipwright?"

"Yes little one, Cirdan the shipwright."

"How long until we get there? How long are we staying? Will he take us sailing?"

"I have a feeling that if you went out on the sea you would never return. We won't be staying long, a day or so, we have to reach Hobbiton by September the 22nd. It shouldn't take us more than a week to get there." Lirima didn't say anything she just looked forward towards the sea.

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I giliath lind sinadu~ The stars sing tonight

Ron lin tenlle~ They sing for you

A/N: Please r&r I want to know what you guys think. I have another version of this story that I wrote, but I want to know if I should follow that or go somewhere else with this. Your reviews help me, thanx!