LADY EOWYN HAS COME TO VISIT

Dear Silwen,

Lady Éowyn has to come and stay at the palace with Mother Arwen, for she is in need of some company while she is expecting child.

Frost has not yet come here for we are much farther to the south than you, and we still have a few leaves on the trees. I expect to have frost on my window before long, though.

I sit here now with young Théodwyn on my lap, for she is fond of me. She and Gildor have accompanied your mother to Minas Tirith. Théodwyn and my young brother Eldarion are getting along splendidly.

I have received word from Huinlas, though only a poem. He says nothing of how he is doing, nor why he is there in the forests of the north. Though the last poem he has sent to me is very beautiful, I understand it least of the others. I think it may have a double meaning. I have enclosed it with this letter. What do you think it means?

I must end this letter short, for I must take my leave of your family.

Mellonlín,

Arwing of the White Tree