(He can move like a shadow and he utilizes that skill now. Galadriel will find a letter tucked neatly under her door. It is sealed with wax featuring a simple "M".)
Cousin,
My brother and foster-son have made their way to the fates that await them on Arda. I am reminded, by their absence, how little time we are given. We should take naught for granted. This is not a comment on your feelings or actions - I think they are just - but I have reexamined mine.
Not many know that I and Kano fostered Elrond and Elros. Of course we did it after we frightened their poor mother and razed their city to the ground. However the effect those children had on us was good. We love them truly and I imagined, for a time, that we could forget the Oath and raise them.
Yet that was foolish. They belong with their kin and their people. We let them go, safe and sound, so that they could become the leaders they were always meant to be. I should have dedicated the rest of my life to watching over them; I would not have minded the duty in the least. But the Oath howled and clawed at us, demanding us to press on and do the impossible.
I perished a fool, Artanis, and apparently that is not an attribute that has improved over time. But I want to be less foolish; less rash and pig-headed. I can easily imagine the scorn you have earned for being kin to me. For that, I am sorry. Let my future actions speak for me, dear one, and know that I did not lie. I have and will always love you.
(Letter - Brought and Left In Person.)
Cousin,
My brother and foster-son have made their way to the fates that await them on Arda. I am reminded, by their absence, how little time we are given. We should take naught for granted. This is not a comment on your feelings or actions - I think they are just - but I have reexamined mine.
Not many know that I and Kano fostered Elrond and Elros. Of course we did it after we frightened their poor mother and razed their city to the ground. However the effect those children had on us was good. We love them truly and I imagined, for a time, that we could forget the Oath and raise them.
Yet that was foolish. They belong with their kin and their people. We let them go, safe and sound, so that they could become the leaders they were always meant to be. I should have dedicated the rest of my life to watching over them; I would not have minded the duty in the least. But the Oath howled and clawed at us, demanding us to press on and do the impossible.
I perished a fool, Artanis, and apparently that is not an attribute that has improved over time. But I want to be less foolish; less rash and pig-headed. I can easily imagine the scorn you have earned for being kin to me. For that, I am sorry. Let my future actions speak for me, dear one, and know that I did not lie. I have and will always love you.
Sincerely,
Maedhros