Often I feared you would leave me. Often you showed you wouldn’t. I never thought you would risk your life for the world of men. As I rode to the Grey Havens, I wondered if I would ever see you again. When I could see the harbor, I couldn’t bring myself to go any farther from you. I turned around and vowed that I would never leave you…
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“Answer me,” I said as the tears went streaming down my face. Every time I saw you lying in a bed, dying of a deadly would, it seemed like time stopped. It would start again within a week. This time, it didn’t. This time you didn’t wake up.
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…but you left me, never to return. You went to sit among the great of your kin, leaving me in time never moving…
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There is nothing left for me here. I shall sail to Valinor and answer the sea longing. Leave all behind, yet I will still be tortured, for you will not be with me.
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…Elves die in battle or of grief. I will die of the latter, for I am not whole without you. I shall follow you through death, and never leave you…