Elrond struggled to catch his breath, he was kneeling alone upon a rocky outcrop. Behind him lying half unconscious and exhausted, his family, his friends, and some former enemies, men, dwarves, elves, Maia and Valar alike. And ahead, a ball of fire with the form of a demonic face, the stolen sun. Morgoth escaped from his prison. And the warriors from Mandos halls who had been called forth to fight him. He was no longer sure where they were fighting, the land was burned and broken. At the start he had been sure this was arda, overlooking the overtaken, abandoned ruins of what had once been Imaldis. Now he stood alone, right behind him the fallen forms of Galadriel, Gil galad, and Mithrandir. All three had fallen, stripped of their strength as they had tried to fight this monster together.
Elrond stared at the thing feeling lost, until the silence was broken, A song, from the lips of maglor, singing to him for him! "Ok, I know what I must do." He stood casting aside his sword. As he spoke others joined in, men's voices, and dwarves. "Can you hear them, Morgoth! Hear them singing!" He yelled. "All these people who have lived in terror of you! These people whose ancestors devoted themselves, sacrificed themselves, to you!" he yelled as a burst of heat from the beast before him flared out. "Can you hear them singing?" He looked back for a moment. Seeing his daughter, in the arms of her love. Both being protected by his fathers. His resolve hardened and he looked back. "Oh you like to think you are a god. Well you are not a god, You're just a parasite. Eaten out with jealousy and envy, and longing for the lives of others!" He yelled, his voice echoing over the roar of flames. "You feed on them! On the memory of love, and loss, and birth and sorrow!" Another wave of intense heat pushed Elrond back and he dug in his heels bracing himself against it. His face turned back again this time to see with a leg pinned under rubble his brother, their birth parents at his side. Watching him with wide eyes.
Elrond swallowed and stepped back up, tears streaming down his face. "So.. So take mine! Take my memories, but I hope you have a big appetite because I have lived a long life, and I have seen many things!" He took a gasping breath, snarling as he pushed forward against the heat. The song of the onlookers growing in number and strength. "I walked away from the war of the ring! I marked the passing of the elves, to the age of men! I was shown the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out! Moment by moment until nothing remained!" He yelled as the burning ball quaked. "No time! No Space! Just me!" He shook but stayed standing tossing away his helmet. "I saw worlds where the laws of the universe were devised by the minds of mad men!" He quieted, staring into the burning abyss above him. "I have watched countries freeze and cities burn! I have seen things you wouldn't believe! I have lost things- you will never understand." His voice rose again, with a power he never thought he had in him. "And I know things! Secrets that must never be told, knowledge that must never be spoken!" The song of his people rose with his voice, as the monster quivered and roared before them.
"Knowledge! That will make parasites like you blaze! So come on then! Take it all! Have it! You will have it all!" He let go, everything he was, and had as the fire before him sucked inwards balls of fire shooting out. A shriek as it burned itself to nothing, and he fell. To darkness, to burning earth. And the song of hope, and love.
