263. The Long Defeat
Tolkien always wrote of the Long Defeat, that noble, slow but ultimately inevitable demise of the Elves of Middle-Earth. The seeds planted millennia ago by Feanor that doomed his descendants to fight a war that could not be won…for a prize that could not be attained...
Thus the Elves resigned themselves to slowly fade away into myth and legend, singing their songs of lament, their songs of the sea…
Fiction has a funny habit of mirroring reality. I wonder, should that day come, when we would sing our own songs of lament…of things that should have been…and ask ourselves…did we do all we could?
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