Onen i-Estel Edain, u'-chebin estel anim

After a few years Gilraen took leave of Elrond and returned to her own people
in Eriador, and lived alone; and she seldom saw her son again, for he spent
many years in far countries.  But on a time, when Aragorn had returned to the
North, he came to her, and she said to him before he went . . .

-- I gave hope to the Doonedain, I have kept no hope for myself.

and Aragorn son of Arathorn Chieftain of the Dunedain of the former
Northern-Kingdoms went away heavy of heart, for after Elrond had revealed to
him both Aragorn's true name and his lineage, and the chance meeting the next
day of the fairy princess "Arwen Undomiel" "daughter of Elrond" in Imladris
where Aragorn had mistook her for THE Luthien "Nightingale" Tinuviel, and the
dark years of toil and chance alone in the forest, and after Gilraen Aragorn's
mother's "for without the good will of Master Elrond the Heirs of Isildur will
soon come to an end", and the encounter with Arwen in Lorien under the auspices
of fairy Lady Galadriel where the 49[years old]-er was betrothed to Elrond's
daughter, only if it was Aragorn's purpose for Arwen to be the fairy "Queen" of
Aragorn's kingdom, midsummer even, Aragorn already knew of Gilraen's imminent
departure from her mortal coil.  Ar, fair is only fair, Turin, or, y tu
tambien, Aragorn thought.  Gilraen died before the next spring...

But Arwen went forth from the House, and the light of her eyes was quenched,
and it seemed to her people that she had become cold and grey as nightfall in
winter that comes without a star.  Then she said farewell to Eldarion, and to
her daughters, and to all whom she had loved; and she went out from the city of
Ministereth and passed away to the land of Lorry-in', and dwelt there alone
under the fading until winter came.  Galadriel had passed away and Celeborn
also was gone, and the land was silent.

There at last when the mallorn-leaves were falling, but spring had not yet
come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Am Roth; and there is her green
grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly
forgotten by men that come after . . .

We had called that the End of the Third Age, and ages after, we find that the
Romans had given up their Empire to the Christians during the reign of
Constantine I.  Then in 325 AD Constantine hastily bids adieu and establishes
himself on the Bosporus in Byzantium, later to be known as Constantinople near
where today we have Istanbul.  My grandmother Agatona Oca comes from the same
class of family as Karen Ibe, where her ancestors were Spanish or Portuguesas
from the Iberian Peninsula, invaded and conquered by an Arab contingent,
probably more than twice even, and all those people, the Spanish, Portuguese,
Germans, Britannia, Arabia, Bactria, Gaul, etcetera, fell under the rule of the
Emperors of Rome, under the guidance of the governors from Rome, which as an
empire had established itself on the auspices of the son of Philip II of
Macedon, or Alexander the Great, who became the Emperor of Greece and Thracia,
from Macedon, son of Philip II, the King of Macedon.  

And all that happened after Elrond said goodbye to Arwen and left to her and
Aragorn the combined Kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor!

But only if we view LOTR and the Silm as some sort of "history"!

hth


Mark Tiangco '/~'