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altariel ([personal profile] altariel) wrote2011-05-24 12:33 pm
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White Lady, With Lamp

It was she they wanted, Lady Wraithbane.

White Lady, With Lamp

Ithilien, in the Fourth Age

In the years after, so many of them came that a house was built in a tranquil valley where Elves now dwelt. Young men no more, the horror of that past still shaped their desolate present. Elf-song soothed them – but it was she they wanted, Lady Wraithbane, whose deed felled a dread king.

And Éowyn welcomed each of them, and fought for them, and ordered a fair house for them. But their devotion baffled her. She never quite grasped what her husband always knew – that pity was hers too, and the healing love can be strong as well as gentle.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-05-24 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. It feels pretty strongly imagined in my mind, although I think a lot of that is Tolkien.