Many Journeys by Elleth

Acclimate

Nerdanel, Finarfin and Eärwen, and the aftermath of the Darkening.

Valinor was cold without the light, she said, and was chided by Arafinwë (with his arms protectively around Eärwen). She knew nothing of cold, he said, she who had not been in Araman and heard the doom of the Noldor herself.

Too wearied to reply she kept her silence, and pulled her scarves more closely around herself. A soft hand rested on her shoulder.

"Leave me," Nerdanel said then. "If you say that I know no cold, I say that you know little of warmth or fire." Eärwen put a blanket around her. "Our peoples learned. Too much of both."

Chapter End Notes

acclimate uh-KLY-mit; AK-luh-mayt, transitive and intransitive verb:
To accustom or become accustomed to a new climate, environment, or situation.

Acclimate is from French acclimater, from a-, "to" (from Latin ad-) + climat, "climate," from Late Latin clima, climat-, from Greek klima, "inclination; the supposed slope of the earth toward the pole; region; clime," from klinein, "to lean."

(from www.dictionary.com)