When he came to Rivendell, accompanying Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin, we managed to escape the Hall of Fire, for a time, to speak together.
I asked him,
"Renech i lu i erui govannen?" (Do you remember when we first met?). He had already shown me before that he doubted himself, that he believed that he was unworthy.
He answered,
"Nauthannem i ned ol reniannen." (I thought I had strayed into a dream.). But he had not. The dream had only just begun.
I touched his cheek, for once clean shaven and said,
"Gwenwin in enninath...U-arnech in naeth i si celich." (Long years have passed…you did not have the cares you carry now.) And indeed, I remember the joyous days and nights we spent in Lothlórien. But it seemed to me that he still doubted. I asked "Renech i beth i pennen?" (Do you remember what I told you?).
He touched my necklace, the Evenstar given to me by my mother and answered quietly.
"You said you'd bind yourself to me. Forsaking the immortal life of your people." Indeed I swore that to him, I promised to renounce the twilight.
And so, I replied,
"And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." I could not and cannot bear the thought of going to the Undying Lands, where our love would be evergreen, but only ever a memory. I opened his hand and gave him the Evenstar. "I choose a mortal life." When he looked down and saw what I had given him, he protested,
"You cannot give me this!" But it was not anyone else's choice to make.
"It is mine to give to whom I will...like my heart." The next morning he left on another journey in the Wild.