White Lady, With Lamp
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altarielIt 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.
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.
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Date: 2011-05-25 10:30 am (UTC)Yes, like a bird unfolding its wings. A space to grow into, but not a space that is pre-determined, and so would constrain that growth in some way.
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