[ wry amusement: ] Galadhrim and a life debt already, Artanis?
[ again, something else they must address now, before it festers. his hand rests on the shuttle without touching hers- he is always very careful about that- and he waits until she looks at him before he speaks. they are both unimaginably old. he looks at her and sees what he cannot find a match of in the eyes of anyone else here. legolas is yet too young, and he is glad for that, for that innocence. ]
I do not disagree with what my father did. You have always hungered for a forest, for your kingdom. Say what you will about titles, we both know a king is a glorified steward in the end, and you fill that role for your wood. I am faulted too; we were begat in Arda Marred. I am selfish, possessive, prideful. Whatever distance we had between us there cannot exist now.
[ he lets the magnitude of it set it, gives words to what he suspect she also fears to acknowledge. ]
This time, this place- Ilúvatar sent us here. You know it to be true. [ and it is a humbling, trembling thing to allow that thought to settle. eru's hand is in this. ] This world was affected by the Discord, though I doubt Morgoth has set foot here, if he knows of it. Ilúvatar means for us to mend this, and we will fail if we set ourselves as- Silvans and Galadhrim from the start. We cannot fail the elves here because of our... animosity.
[ a very careful wording. doriath sits between them. oh, he is not a fool to think they will ever manage to exorcise that ghost wholly, but. the dalish. the people. the elves dead and yet begotten. this is larger than them. ]
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Date: 2016-05-15 05:55 am (UTC)[ again, something else they must address now, before it festers. his hand rests on the shuttle without touching hers- he is always very careful about that- and he waits until she looks at him before he speaks. they are both unimaginably old. he looks at her and sees what he cannot find a match of in the eyes of anyone else here. legolas is yet too young, and he is glad for that, for that innocence. ]
I do not disagree with what my father did. You have always hungered for a forest, for your kingdom. Say what you will about titles, we both know a king is a glorified steward in the end, and you fill that role for your wood. I am faulted too; we were begat in Arda Marred. I am selfish, possessive, prideful. Whatever distance we had between us there cannot exist now.
[ he lets the magnitude of it set it, gives words to what he suspect she also fears to acknowledge. ]
This time, this place- Ilúvatar sent us here. You know it to be true. [ and it is a humbling, trembling thing to allow that thought to settle. eru's hand is in this. ] This world was affected by the Discord, though I doubt Morgoth has set foot here, if he knows of it. Ilúvatar means for us to mend this, and we will fail if we set ourselves as- Silvans and Galadhrim from the start. We cannot fail the elves here because of our... animosity.
[ a very careful wording. doriath sits between them. oh, he is not a fool to think they will ever manage to exorcise that ghost wholly, but. the dalish. the people. the elves dead and yet begotten. this is larger than them. ]