A Commendation [Elros, Elrond] G

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Title: A Commendation
By: HF
Characters: Elros, Elrond, Elendil
Rating/Warnings: None
Slash/Adult Content: Implied Gil-galad/Elrond
Disclaimer: The genius and characters are Tolkien's.

Notes: Written for lotr100's "Letter from a Dead Character" challenge. Elros to his brother Elrond, on his exiled descendant.

For mrkinch... a belated mathom, if you will.


A COMMENDATION

I wish, O my brother, I could tell you what it is to sleep.

Sleep... Rest at life’s end, a heart’s ease, this understanding that what I once beheld was but a waking dream. A Gift it is, though my children have forgotten.

It is because of this forgetting, my beloved brother, that I write. You heard the death of Andor, the cries of her children carried on the storm. An exile, my own flesh, shall come to you – he, his children, who remember.

Welcome him for my sake, brother. You and the one you love – be kind to him.

Farewell.