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Title: Rings (#2311)
Author: inglor
Chapters: 5

Archive: Tolkien
Category: The Silmarillion
Description: Lovers part after the death of The Trees Drabble Challenge #32 Left Behind
Published: 17 Oct 2005
Updated: 17 Oct 2005
Warnings:
Type: General
Characters: Finrod; Amarie


Chapter 1 - Folly

Folly, she said. Folly it may be. But I must go. I must See. I cannot be true to myself and stay in this gilded cage.

Her ring weighs heavy in my hand. The ring I made and placed on her finger, now returned to me. My own ring mocks me.

I watch her walk away, disappear into the gloom. The gloom of Morgoth. The gloom we have vowed to avenge.

I know I will never see her again through these eyes. Only through Namo’s grace will I be at her side.

Something tells me I will see her again.


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Chapter 2 - Absence

The absence of his ring on my finger. I already miss its weight. I feel naked in this unclean air.

I left him in the Square, our hearts broken and shattered on the stones.

I cannot go. I cannot leave my land, my people and Valar whom I love and be true to myself.

If he stayed, he would wither. If I went, I would fail. Our love could not overcome that. We both knew it.

Only through Namo’s grace will I be at his side.

Something tells me I will see him again.

I wish I had kept it.


Chapter 3 - Return to folly

The Valar have been kind. Namo held me only a short while, or so he said.

Father kept them for me. I left them in the Square, with my heart.

He told me she wept when I did not return with him from Aqualonde. She did not weep when he told her I had died.

I hold them in my hand and look at my rings. My heart says to go.

Folly, my mind says. Folly it may be. But I must go. I must See. I cannot be true to myself and wonder. Now, I must return to her.


Chapter 4 - Absence Reminded

I wept when he did not return from Feanaro’s treachery. I wept because he was now among the cursed. I wept because I thought Namo would never release him.

I stayed in his father’s house many years, the land and people I loved no longer held my heart. His father told me of his death, but I did not weep, my tears had already fallen, my grief already spent.

Now, word comes he has returned. Namo and the Valar have been kind.

I feel again the absence of his ring on my finger

I wish I had kept it.


Chapter 5 - Rings returned

“Father found them and held them for me.”

“He is very wise.”



“He said you wept but not at my death.”

“I wept after Aqualonde, when I thought nevermore would I see you.”



“Have you forgiven me?”

“Have you forgiven yourself?”

“I am here.”

“As am I.”



“You were always with me. In my darkest moment, you came to me and gave me strength.”

“Your father let me stay and I found some comfort. When what was mine, was not.”



“Will you be with me now, to be comforted and give strength? Would you wear it again?”

“Yes, I will”
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