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A re-edit of one of my very favourite pieces, one of the first I created with the GIMP. I've touched the colours up a bit and took out some of the glaring over-exposure from using the dodge brush too many times on the waves.
Aldarion was the Prince of Numenor in the Second Age of Arda. He fell in love with the Lady Erendis, but the Sea claimed his heart with stronger bonds than any woman could put upon him. As they fell in love, the Sea and Aldarion's many and lengthy voyages on it continually came between them. After many trials, Erendis and Aldarion were wed, but their bliss did not last. Aldarion could not end his longing for the Sea, and voyaged long away, leaving his lonely wife at home. At last, after one wounding too many, Erendis' love for Aldarion grew into hate, and they seperated, she taking their daughter Ancalime. Many long cold years passed, and as Erendis grew old and faded near to death, alone and forsaken by most who knew her, in her loneliness she once again longed for the husband she had spurned. But he was gone on another voyage across the wide Sea, and she could not make amends nor hold him close again. The records are not clear on her demise, and it is said only that "Erendis perished in the ocean". I imagine that she, in her desperation, went down to the shore to curse Uinen Lady of the Seas who had stolen her husband away from her, and there the waters took her down to her grave.
(Summarised from 'The Mariner's Wife' in J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales)
Erendis: ~flying-dolphin-stock
Ocean: ~gothika-stock
Brushes: ~darkecho, ~sykil
Aldarion was the Prince of Numenor in the Second Age of Arda. He fell in love with the Lady Erendis, but the Sea claimed his heart with stronger bonds than any woman could put upon him. As they fell in love, the Sea and Aldarion's many and lengthy voyages on it continually came between them. After many trials, Erendis and Aldarion were wed, but their bliss did not last. Aldarion could not end his longing for the Sea, and voyaged long away, leaving his lonely wife at home. At last, after one wounding too many, Erendis' love for Aldarion grew into hate, and they seperated, she taking their daughter Ancalime. Many long cold years passed, and as Erendis grew old and faded near to death, alone and forsaken by most who knew her, in her loneliness she once again longed for the husband she had spurned. But he was gone on another voyage across the wide Sea, and she could not make amends nor hold him close again. The records are not clear on her demise, and it is said only that "Erendis perished in the ocean". I imagine that she, in her desperation, went down to the shore to curse Uinen Lady of the Seas who had stolen her husband away from her, and there the waters took her down to her grave.
(Summarised from 'The Mariner's Wife' in J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales)
Erendis: ~flying-dolphin-stock
Ocean: ~gothika-stock
Brushes: ~darkecho, ~sykil
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This captures the emotion overall of Erendis's whole life, I think. I love the story even though it's sad. Remember, Tolkien did have a line, where he assumes the reader will understand that Aldarion, towards the end of his life, realized that his time with Erendis, before their marriage, had been the happiest years of his life.