B2MEM 2011 Day Nine: Loyalty or Betrayal
Today's Challenge:
Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters have to decide between loyalty or betrayal.
It's not only for Legolas that the Sea-longing has cruel consequences:
The Elven-King's Choice
Thranduil begins to sense it in dream; knows it the moment he wakes, from the leaden weight of sorrow which settles over his heart. He is gone.
He had no choice, he writes to Celeborn, who alone may understand; …which means that, one day, I must choose. I always thought I would see the last of the willing to the Havens; and then, perhaps, fade with the rest into the sunlight and leaf-shadow of the woods that bore us. But now…
My people, here; my father and my son in Valinor. To whom should I be loyal - and whom betray?
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(Thranduil's father, Oropher, was killed on the Dagorlad in the war of the Last Alliance. We don't know for sure whether he was still in Mandos when Legolas arrived in Valinor - maybe later in this series we'll find out!)
Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters have to decide between loyalty or betrayal.
It's not only for Legolas that the Sea-longing has cruel consequences:
The Elven-King's Choice
Thranduil begins to sense it in dream; knows it the moment he wakes, from the leaden weight of sorrow which settles over his heart. He is gone.
He had no choice, he writes to Celeborn, who alone may understand; …which means that, one day, I must choose. I always thought I would see the last of the willing to the Havens; and then, perhaps, fade with the rest into the sunlight and leaf-shadow of the woods that bore us. But now…
My people, here; my father and my son in Valinor. To whom should I be loyal - and whom betray?
~~~
(Thranduil's father, Oropher, was killed on the Dagorlad in the war of the Last Alliance. We don't know for sure whether he was still in Mandos when Legolas arrived in Valinor - maybe later in this series we'll find out!)