Chapter I: Awakened (Pt. II)“Above the coursing breeze blowing across the waters came the risi

Chapter I: Awakened (Pt. II)“Above the coursing breeze blowing across the waters came the rising of voices. I noticed  Mîrwen had taken hold of my hand. It was the first time I had noticed how beautiful she was—the light of ten thousand stars shone in her eyes. I could not turn my gaze away—finding her beauty without equal among all others to me. She smiled at me.“You are beautiful,” I said finally; my voice startling me when I first heard it. It was deep and resonating and I feared it wold frighten Mîrwen but she was not afraid.“So are you,” she said softly—her voice to me was a melody I would forever be drawn.We looked around as we stood among others as we—wandering in the paradise beneath the stars that cast their light as reflection and shadow upon the stillness of the lake by which we were born.We were approached by one with long golden hair and grey eyes with a maiden at his side with dark golden hair longer still.“I am Iarûr,” he said. “This is Nimríel.”“There are many here before us,” I said. “Where do we settle?”“Beyond here,” he began. “There lies a greater pace whispered among us yet none have dared wander.”“There are many of us,” I said. They seem quite contented to remain here beside the waters.”“Why not,” a voice asked. “I have found little reason to venture elsewhere. What do they call you? I am Êlengolas.”“Iarûr,” he said to him.“Where has Valdôr gone,” I asked.“Not far,” he said. “His wonder has taken him among the hosts. There are many but by name we are not all the same.”Nimríel seemed distant at those words and Mîrwen comforted her away from us as she instinctively knew something we did not.“If there is a home beyond this place, let time tell us the way we should go,” I said. “For we were awakened her by the creator of the stars.”We delighted in this and returned with our beloved wives to the shores where our kin had gathered. I lay beside Mîrwen gazing into starlight for a time without end. There was a peace I only knew that I would long for in the coming of days when the echoes of night would bring an evil that would extinguish the light of hope.”–TKWR Trilogy Book I: The Epic of Eryn Galen by J.Marie Miller 6-23-2017Images: ©2012, 2013, 2014. Warner Brothers Pictures. The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. All Rights Reserved. -- source link

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