The Straight Road

[dawn_felagund]

A new age begins in Middle-earth but a tenuous link--the Straight Road--still connects what was and what is.

In that time the last of the Noldor set sail from the Havens and left Middle-earth for ever. And latest of all the Keepers of the Three Rings rode to the Sea, and Master Elrond took there the ship that Círdan had made ready. In the twilight of autumn it sailed out of Mithlond, until the seas of the Bent World fell away beneath it, and the winds of the round sky troubled it no more, and borne upon the high airs above the mists of the world it passed into the Ancient West, and an end was come for the Eldar of story and of song.

Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

All of the 2007 B2MeM quotes can be viewed here.

Comments

[rinnor.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the postings all this month, it's been a pleasure to read the excerpts and it reminds me I should reread Silm again in its totality.

[dawn_felagund]

You and me both! :) No matter how many times I read the whole thing, I still come back to reread certain sections dozens more times while neglecting others. Mostly neglected are the "Beren & Luthien" and "Of Turin" chapters ... I'm afraid that I can't really relate to these (and they're a bit boring ... *hides*)

[angelica-ramses.livejournal.com]

It is a kind of endless book. There are always things that you have forgotten or didn't pay too much attention to at first which make rereading it a pleasure and a challenge.
This last posting is beyond sad.

[periantari.livejournal.com]

I love that bit from the last part of the SIlmarillion~