Lonely Wanderers and the Tales That Almost Were - Page 11
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Which is not to say that Mithrellas would have stopped loving Imrazor. Rather, she had no hope of sharing his fate, or of securing a grace for Imrazor to pass over Sea with her. In the years since her marriage, she may have re-established contact with her people, and the Elves could have built a ship and used it to leave Middle-earth. Bitter though it might be for Mithrellas, she might have had no other choice than to wait and watch as her husband and children grew old and died.
If 2043 was too soon for Mithrellas to leave Imrazor, then 2050, the year Earnur rode off to Minas Morgul with his small company of knights, would probably be the last year Mithrellas could find any delight in Gondor. So Mithrellas probably left between the years 2043 and 2050, and most likely in the year 2050. Like 1981, when the Dwarven civilization of Khazad-dum was destroyed and Amroth left Lothlorien, 2050 would be a year of ill-omen. There had to come a night when her spirit could no longer be at ease beneath the stars of Middle-earth. Perhaps looking down upon her sleeping husband one last time, Mithrellas would silently recall years of mirth and joy, and then quietly slip away.
In the morning, Imrazor would have awakened to find his beloved wife gone. And knowing her through all those years, he would have understood her need to escape the tragic losses she experienced in Middle-earth. He must nonetheless have followed her, stood upon a cliff high above the sea, and looking out west hoped to catch a glimpse of an Elven ship far from shore. How many hours might he have stared silently as her ship receded into the distance, seeking the Straight Road to Valinor? Yet at last, when he could see the vessel no longer, he would return to his great castle overlooking the sea. And Belfalas would thereafter seem less blessed, though for many generations its beauty might preserve the memory of the Elven songs of old, and the Lady who last sang them for mortal men.
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