fallasleep: (Heavily hangs the tiger-lily)
roy walker (there are no bandits here). ([personal profile] fallasleep) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs 2013-11-20 11:35 am (UTC)

I'm not quite sure that's worth coming back for

[ It's not even the part about being several hundred years old. It's Mairon's assumption that he has people with whom he wants to spend the rest of his life. If Roy is Luthien, then his reason for giving up immortality will not merely be for Beren - but because he cannot imagine having to live within this emptiness that now governs his life.

That's why fairytales are fairytales in the end - no matter how dark or sorrowful their endings, no matter how many trials the heroine or hero has to go through, there is joy in every step they take, every word told.

He lifts his shoulders in a shrug. ]


Probably not.

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