Disclaimer: Arda, the Lord of the Rings and everything else is Tolkien's creation. I am just playing with his characters, and promise to return them safely when I am done.
Her Journey Home
Oh mortal shores, I say farewell,
To lands where I have long years dwelt,
I laughed, I wept, I grieved and smiled
And now my ship passes the miles
Under a grey dawn on a grey sea.
The Valar, they have heard my pleas
My way is set, I now depart
Following the call that begs my heart
To return to the blessed shores
Where peace will be forevermore.
The sky turns blue, the rain subsides,
And there my old home before me lies:
Still faint and far and far away,
And who waits there I cannot say.
I only know that I am blessed
To again see the Old West
Where I was born, where I was raised,
Where I in Trees´ light with my brothers played.
My daughter there will wait for me
To return over the wide sea.
They all have gone back to this land
Where long ago among princes did stand
A maiden young with golden hair
Wishing to herself win a share
Of lands in dark beyond the waves
Where pale the starlight water laved.
Under unclouded skies she wished to roam
Beneath the heaven's mighty dome.
Now she returns, for I am no more her
And the white ship touches the shore.
A/N: For those of you who have not found out who the speaker is (you quite possibly haven't read the Silmarillion - do so, it is a great book): Galadriel, the Lady of Light. She was born in the Blessed Realm, Valinor, and left it because she wanted to rule a realm of her own in Middle-earth.
Her brothers are Finrod, Orodreth, Angrod and Aegnor, they all were slain in Beleriand in the First Age. Her daughter is Celebrían, wife of Elrond, who was ambushed by Orcs and after that decided to journey to Valinor to find healing. Now let us hope they all wait for her there.
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