Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael  

Of Thingol and Melian 2

The Teleri were approaching the journey's end,
so they decided to rest for a while in East Beleriand,
beyond the River Gelion; while their Noldor friends
dwelt westward in the wood of Neldoreth and Region.

The Lord of the Teleri, Elwë, missed greatly
his friend Finwë of his kin's Noldor clan,
so he often went out in the forests, patiently,
in search of him in the depth of the land.

One fateful night he reached the Nan Elmoth forest,
where he overheard the song of nightingales.
He stood motionless under enchantment and stardust
sprinkled on his chest, he felt a slight tingle.

Far away, through the magical chirping of birds,
he could perceive a magical voice singing,
it filled his heart with longing when he heard
that strangest wonderous female chanting.

He forgot his purpose, his quest to find Finwë,
and he followed the birds in the chilly shadows,
lost in the thickness of Nan Elmoth, no way
out of it, no turning back to familiar meadows.

He came into an ethereal and starlit glade,
where he saw Melian for the first time,
upon her face shone Aman's light and blazed
a ray into his core, of love's elexir divine.

She didn't utter a world, a misterious apparition,
Elwë, enamoured, took her by the hand,
an enchantment came upon them; in that condition
they remained there till the trees tall came to stand.

The people of Elwë long sought him, everywhere,
no one could find him, forever was he gone,
so Olwë headed the command of the Elves; a heir
of his duties and strategies, to Aman onward drawn.

Elwë lived long through Middle-Earth's Ages,
yet never did he ultimately come to Valinor,
nor did Melian return there, they ruled as sages
with justice in the forests, bequeathing their lore.

From them came into the veins of Elves and Men
a measure of the blood of those Ainur who had been
with Ilúvatar before the making of Eä; back when
everything in the Universe was a vague blueprint.

Elwë would later become a notorious King,
his subordinates were the Eldar of Beleriand,
named the Sindar Elves, the Twilight Grey kin,
King Greycloak, Elu Thingol shielding the land.

His Queen Melian was the wisest creature
in the entire vast Middle-Earth's realm, immemorial,
her hidden halls were in Menegroth, deeper
than imaginable, in the Thousand Caves of Doriath.

Thingol was great among the Eldar,
and even greater the power of Melian,
he alone among all the race of the Sindar,
had seen the Two Trees in their brilliance.

For that though the was the Umanyar ruler,
he was not considered to be a Moriquendi, this Adar,
and from the love of Elwë and Melian in the future
were born the fairest of the Children of Ilúvatar.