Mystery I Named You

Why are we sitting here looking at each other in embarrassment now, when the riddles are solved? You are no longer my secret. Thurin I named you, yet in my blindness I could not see how close I was to the truth.

Why do we break our hearts instead of warming our hands? The affection that has blossomed will never be fulfilled. All I can see is a dark-ended path, along which I will not walk carrying the gift both cherished and hated.

You are not Beren, and yet, despite the doom that lies in you, I love you more.


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Author’s note

Thurin [the Secret] was the name given to Túrin by Finduilas before she found out his true name.

The gift refers to the Gift of the Secondborn Children of Ilúvatar – mortality.

You are not Beren refers to the marriage of Beren and Lúthien and to what Gwindor said to Finduilas when he revealed who “Thurin” was for real and suggested that Finduilas’ fate would not be that one of Lúthien.

Thanks a lot to Neume for an extra-speedy beta.