To Fate.

Epilouge: Poe.

Perhaps nothing ended the way it was meant to. Perhaps the twins died mortal deaths. This is for none of us to say. Tolkien was the one to say it. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem called Annabel Lee.

Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allen Poe.

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

She was a child and I was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me:--
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling
And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:--

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the side of the sea.

This is the poem that inspired this story for the most part. Middle-Earth being the beautiful Annabel Lee. And, like all things, the world must die. The man who spoke of Annabel Lee knew this and the twins knew this as well. That is why they could part..

And for years, the twins dreamed of the earth as it was when they were there. They saw the faces of the people and the beauty of perfection. They passed to Valinor, and like all things, faded out of knowledge. As long as the twins lived on though, the beauty of Middle-Earth stayed immortal in their minds. The perfection of the world was always exsistant. In Valinor, the twins would reside till the ending of the known world.