(Vote) Up Not Down by Himring

Chapter 1

Do you prefer dawn or dusk?

Do you prefer Arwen or Galadriel?

Shall I fetch my axe?

It is not a competition.

Let us enjoy the company of both together,

while there is time,

before the ship sails from the Havens,

before leaves deck a grave on Cerin Amroth.

Do you prefer songs of unrequited love

or songs of fate and doom?

Do you prefer Daeron or Maglor?

It is not a competition;

both are great matters.

Let us listen to each in turn,

while there is time,

before each song falters with distance,

before singers wander and are lost.

Do you prefer sunshine or the evening star,

Arien’s blossom or the light of the Trees?

It is not a competition.

Do not make me choose

between Celebrimbor and Enerdhil,

between Nenya and the Elessar.

Who cares who stands taller,

Turgon or Thingol? Or forgotten Argon?

Even forever isn’t here to stay—

let us love what we love

in the time that is given to us.