A Sense of History: Straight Road
The next in a series of articles about ships passing to and from the West, Simon uses "The Fall of Númenor" to attempt to arrive at Tolkien's reading of the exordium to "Beowulf."
Celebrían made sure not to let any amusement show on her face.
She had expected some variation of the question from her sons now that they were old enough to explore the pleasures of the body. She just hadn’t expected they would ask if she had engaged in any threesomes. (They were certainly imagining their father had been party to any. Sadly, that was not the case. If the battle at Orodruin had only gone a bit differently…)
“Yes, I did. And I suspect the two of you will find the ellith of the Greenwood very agreeable to such suggestions.”