Homecomings

I saw your grandfather die before Mordor, and when word came from Elrond I feared you would meet the same fate. The Valar have been kind; you return to me nearly unscathed.

Yet not wholly. Think you I cannot recognize sickness for the sea? So many of our kindred heard the cursed gulls' cry in that first battle, and I see the same signs on you.

Do you feel the Sea's pull yet? You will soon enough, and then you shall be torn from Middle-earth or torn in two. But we shall enjoy the days we have left together.

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Note: The fact that both Thranduil and Oropher (Legolas's grandfather) fought in the Last Alliance is gleaned from Tolkien's essay about Celeborn and Galadriel in The Unfinished Tales.