Laurië Lassi – Golden Leaves by Esteliel

Prayer

Write a story or poem or create artwork featuring unanswered requests, prayers or pleas.

Prayer

Glorfindel is a generous man, or so those who know him say. Everyone knows that despite his faults, he is a good man, whose heart is not given to jealousy.

That is what his lovers say, and that is what Glorfindel likes to believe. The truth looks different.

He hides behind smiles when Idril and Tuor are blessed with a child, yet his heart aches with pain whenever he looks at them. Almost he can understand Maeglin when at last, they are betrayed.

He, too, has come to know what it means to pray for something that can never be.