[Lord of the Rings] Green Leaf's Blessing

Time still follows its established and unchanging trajectory.And the beautiful elf living in Ithilien did not roam the west as rumored, nor did he take up a pen to write records, but he still silently witnessed a period of starlight memory where life was precipitated into silver ashes.

In the end it was Aragorn's turn, with Arwen who willingly chose to become a mortal for his sake.

The king left on the coldest night in early spring, and when he was dying, he was still accompanied by the queen who had been in love with him for so many years.Although Legolas did not leave Ithilien, he still saw the poignant farewell scene in a trance from the mournful song of the thrush bird perched on the window frame.Over the years, Arwen has been secretly ordering people to send the prepared medicine secretly, and every few years she will visit Legolas in person, but Aragorn, the best friend who was born and died in the past, has never stepped into Yixi. Lynn.This respect made Legolas very grateful.

That night, Legolas looked in the direction of the White City and sang an elegy for the death of his best friend.He sang of his bravery, of all the glory he had made, and then when he sang of the love of Aragorn and Arwen, the sadness was suddenly swept away by a kind of warmth like a shallow flame.They have been together and loved each other for so many years, and they will eventually go the same way. He should bless them until the last moment, not sad.

When he saw Arwen for the last time, he understood and affirmed her final outcome even more.The queen of Gondor is still beautiful, and when her beloved Aragorn gradually steps into the inescapable aging of mortals, she still shines brightly like an evening star—but since mortals have a final ending, this light will also There is a day of extinction.

"I give this necklace to you, Prince Green Leaf." Only from those starry gray eyes can you see the imprint left by long time and aging and exhaustion, "may its last brilliance bless you to finish The last stretch of the road."

Legolas understood what she meant, and he silently took the Evening Star necklace that was still exuding a faint silver radiance—and he keenly noticed that since it left the master's hand, that beautiful radiance dimmed again. one cent.From then on, it will gradually return to the gray, until Arwen turned away and disappeared in the distance to find the final destination.

And the power of the Eldar that remained on the necklace began to transfer to Legolas, he was no longer bedridden, and he could even walk in the woodland that was gradually showing a charming spring color without Tessier's support.However, the flickering light of the necklace in his hand reminded him every minute and every second that it was time for him to make the final decision and complete the last part of the journey.

"Wherever you go, I will follow you." When he was staring in the direction of the sea in a daze, Tessier seemed to have read his mind, and said like an oath.

"No, Tessier," Legolas turned back and gave him a big smile, "the forest still needs you, and you need it, and I know you don't want to leave—at least not now, so don't do it for me Foolish thing, and you should know I won't let you do it."

Tessier lowered his head, as if he felt a little ashamed and helplessly sad for what he really thought in his heart.

"Then you'll be walking this road alone..."

"There are many journeys in this world where you have to be alone, and only alone."

Legolas looked into the distance again, as if he could see the end where the sea and the sky connected - that would be his final destination.He will never return to Middle Earth again, in order to continue to live, in order to continue to protect and bless the forest, in order to be able to sense his breath even when he is far away.

I live to continue loving you, Ada.

"Will you say goodbye to everyone?" Tessier asked again after a long time.

"Maybe," Legolas nodded, "tell them that Ithilien will hold a dinner party for several days as a farewell and blessing to Prince Green Leaf before his journey westward, and spread the news... I Think, before I leave, the person who should come will always come."

Tessier sighed: "How long will this banquet last?"

Legolas thought for a moment, then a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Until the end of this spring."

What Legolas hadn't expected was that he was not alone on this final journey.

The dwarf Gimli did not know where he got the news, but when he arrived, the spring was coming to an end, the dinner party under the stars was coming to an end, and he complained desperately that there was not enough wine left for him to drink alone.

"Elf kid! You don't know what to do!" The only remaining friend in the Fellowship of the Ring yelled at him as soon as they met, "I sincerely invited you to visit the cave stone palace built by us dwarves , and in turn promised you to go to that goddamn forest, but in the end, you have been missing for 120 years! Are all elves so dishonest, or have they lived so long that they have no sense of time at all? But I don't always stay in the ground and ignore world affairs, but I heard that you did go into the damn forest with a dwarf! Excuse me, is there another 'Gimli' in this world? Are you a dwarf, or did you tie me up and the stones that fell from Treebeard knocked me out of my memory?"

He babbled on and on, no one else could intervene, and Legolas just watched him with a silent smile all the time.

"You're old, Gimli," he said at last, as if touched.

"Elves are really annoying guys!" Gimli grabbed the bottle and stomped the ground, while stroking his gray beard in disbelief, "Don't you see that I'm trying to ignore this fact? Why do you have to Can I mention it? According to me, I don’t feel old, otherwise I wouldn’t have picked up the ax and come all the way here alone, and I can go further places!”

So it was the fate of the last two Fellowship of the Ring to go to the other side of the sea in the same gray ship.

With Gimli's help, the gray ship was built surprisingly smoothly.Although this brave and sincere friend had aged a lot, his stubborn ax swing was still vigorous, and Legolas watched with admiration the last brilliant bloom of this vitality.

"It is not for you alone that I did this," said he, stroking his beard when Legolas thanked him, "when I stand by this great river, I seem to hear the sound of the sea— This has never happened before, a dwarf would suddenly want to see the sea!"

"Maybe it's not just the sea," Legolas replied with a smile, "Even a dwarf will not hear the call of the sea for no reason, and Valar may have given you a special gift to the hero who once saved Middle-earth." , allowing you to step into the legendary Western Wonderland."

"That never happened," said Gimli, looking all the way down the Anduin, "and I'm ready even if it's impossible to come back. Oh, it's going to be Glo Gimli son of In, the end of the great dwarf hero!"

The ending after that is still sung long afterward.People will say that the last two heroes who saved Middle-earth went down the Anduin in gray ships to sea, and the sunrise was shining on the sea level, and flocks of seagulls flew by, and it was all over as if A quietly unfolding picture scroll, the story of the past has come to an end here.

And they believed that on that day, the light singing that came with the waves was real, even though it was too short:

"Run to the sea, to the sea!

White seagulls chirp,

The sea breeze is blowing, and the white waves are churning.

The west, the far west, the setting sun is round and the sea is level,

Gray ship, gray sailing ship, can you hear the call?

That is the voice of those who went before me.

Gone, I will go, bid farewell to the forest that gave birth to me,

Our time is coming to an end, our days are passing.

I will cross the sea, travel alone in a boat,

The long waves on the other shore are gone,

Sweet voices from lost islands,

There is endless life, all trees are evergreen,

Just like the green leafy forest that I love forever in my heart! "

A very small number of people even claimed afterwards that when the song that followed the sea level was about to end, another more melodious and gentle song sounded from the other side of the coast, but the two songs only met for a short time and quickly Two by two are wrong.It is sad, because the two voices, which should have been combined into one inseparable ballad, are forced to be separated by the ocean, only to be found whole in memory forever.

But that's just a small number of people's rhetoric. Most people in the world don't care about the too ethereal singing, just because they can't know another ending—the final ending that stems from the same secret.After the Green Leaf Prince left, Ithilien quietly ushered in another mysterious figure. When his quiet and silent footprints covered every piece of land, when his deep blue eyes engraved the appearance of every tree in his heart , He left without a trace like when he came, and returned to the forest that belonged to him. Until the vicissitudes of life, the traces and deeds of the elves have completely become too distant legends.

All good things will pass away except this forest.When he bowed his head and kissed the white flower, the whole forest seemed to echo the voice from his heart—since it has been bound to the same fate as you, I can't let it have a day of decline.I can't lose you, even at such a distance.

So I choose to stay, choose to guard, choose to continue to love you.

I promised you that our home will not fall, that the song of the wind that floats in it will not change - I know you can hear it, my child, my green leaves.

As long as the white seagulls are still going back and forth between the two sides, they will send my best wishes to you forever.