Valley of the Four Winds

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“Come back to me,” I whispered into the wind, a tiny fluttering hope.

But my words had fallen upon deaf ears, and the unsympathetic wind heard them not. My message went undelivered, unspoken, to the one I longed for most.

But she was long, long gone.

Oh obstinate wind, why do you scorn me?

An age of men have come and gone, but the silence of the wind could not be broken.

Glistening silver spilled down the valley cleft and met the singing river below.

Such a magnificent sight, the falls of Imladris, but they ceased to sing for me.

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