"Two Epitaphs" and "A Merry Feast" by Himring

Morwen

Didactic cinquain, originally written for the B2MeM 2012 prompt "cinquain" on the "Poetic Forms" card.

Morwen,

grey, weary,

after long wandering,

died unanswered but unconquered,

Elfsheen.

Chapter End Notes

The Silmarillion: "He looked down at her in the twilight and it seemed to him that the lines of grief and cruel hardship were smoothed away. 'She was not conquered,' he said; and he closed her eyes, and sat unmoving beside her as the night drew down."

For further background, see Oshun's biography of Morwen here.