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Sea calling
The sea, it speaks.
Nay, it sings.
A gentle calling.
A potent calling.
A call that I must answer.
I can see images of my home forests.
Yet, in my mind, they are being washed away.
Washed away by the tides.
Rolling in the waves.
I am drowning in Ulmo's realm.
Drowning....
Yet I am not dead.
I am alive as never before.
And that, frightens me.
Why is it that after a journey filled with death and doubt I am only truly frightened now?
Why do these waters render me a helpless child?
I am free to walk away into the woods and the mountains I have known forever.
I lie to myself.
I am not free.
Bound by the gull's calls.
Transfixed by the waves.
I will never again be free.
I close my eyes.
I cannot leave now.
Duty, I have a duty.
Now I understand the worry in Galadriel's voice as she warned me of the gulls.
She knew of the temptation.
The fear.
The longing.
Aye, she knew.
Sea longing.
The forests of middle earth will give me peace no more.
peace.....
Dive in! The gulls shriek.
Yes, yes! The waves seem to sing along with the wind.
Ai! I am torn.
Should I do it?
should I answer to the sea?
Swim into the tides, pulled by the moon.
Be cradled by the water as if by a lover.
I have fallen in love with the sea.
It will destroy me if I let it.
But I have a duty to my people.
To my friends.
I cannot answer Ulmo's call.
My soul is split in half.
And it will not become whole again.
Until again I behold the waves.
The beauty of the tides.
And the wild fury of the sea.
A/N Now, I will explain the point of this poem. Apparently, Legolas was very much taken with the sea (aren't we all? At least, I am). Anyway, Galadriel did warn him about it but.... Well..... He managed to find himself along it's shores anyway. Tolkien goes on to explain that after the "Encounter" Legolas really doesn't know peace very well because the sea longing is driving him insane (not real insanity of course). He manages to stay in Middle earth until Aragorn dies and then he builds himself a nice boat and goes sailing off to Valinor (I think he takes Gimli with him, but I'm not sure). I would check to make sure that this is all accurate but my copy of the book seems to be missing. So this poem is about sea longing and what Legolas might have thought and gone through upon the shores of Arda, knowing that it was not yet his time to leave and wanting to anyway.
Sea calling
The sea, it speaks.
Nay, it sings.
A gentle calling.
A potent calling.
A call that I must answer.
I can see images of my home forests.
Yet, in my mind, they are being washed away.
Washed away by the tides.
Rolling in the waves.
I am drowning in Ulmo's realm.
Drowning....
Yet I am not dead.
I am alive as never before.
And that, frightens me.
Why is it that after a journey filled with death and doubt I am only truly frightened now?
Why do these waters render me a helpless child?
I am free to walk away into the woods and the mountains I have known forever.
I lie to myself.
I am not free.
Bound by the gull's calls.
Transfixed by the waves.
I will never again be free.
I close my eyes.
I cannot leave now.
Duty, I have a duty.
Now I understand the worry in Galadriel's voice as she warned me of the gulls.
She knew of the temptation.
The fear.
The longing.
Aye, she knew.
Sea longing.
The forests of middle earth will give me peace no more.
peace.....
Dive in! The gulls shriek.
Yes, yes! The waves seem to sing along with the wind.
Ai! I am torn.
Should I do it?
should I answer to the sea?
Swim into the tides, pulled by the moon.
Be cradled by the water as if by a lover.
I have fallen in love with the sea.
It will destroy me if I let it.
But I have a duty to my people.
To my friends.
I cannot answer Ulmo's call.
My soul is split in half.
And it will not become whole again.
Until again I behold the waves.
The beauty of the tides.
And the wild fury of the sea.
A/N Now, I will explain the point of this poem. Apparently, Legolas was very much taken with the sea (aren't we all? At least, I am). Anyway, Galadriel did warn him about it but.... Well..... He managed to find himself along it's shores anyway. Tolkien goes on to explain that after the "Encounter" Legolas really doesn't know peace very well because the sea longing is driving him insane (not real insanity of course). He manages to stay in Middle earth until Aragorn dies and then he builds himself a nice boat and goes sailing off to Valinor (I think he takes Gimli with him, but I'm not sure). I would check to make sure that this is all accurate but my copy of the book seems to be missing. So this poem is about sea longing and what Legolas might have thought and gone through upon the shores of Arda, knowing that it was not yet his time to leave and wanting to anyway.