GOLD AND MITHRIL: Cloths of Heaven

Summary:
Celeborn draws out his wife’s thoughts on the Herald’s message as only a husband can. A companion piece to GOBLINS: The Herald’s Summons.

WARNING: Rated PG for implied sex between a married couple.

Characters:
Celeborn

Galadriel

Ereinion Gil-galad (mentioned)

Arafinwë (mentioned)

Eärwen (mentioned)

Melian (mentioned)

Eönwë

Fionwë

Notes:
Melethril nîn: (Sindarin) My (female) lover.

Melethron nîn: (Sindarin) My (male) lover.

Ataressë: (Quenya) Father-name.

Ereinion: Gil-galad’s Quenya name.

Ennorath: (Sindarin) Middle-earth.

Note on Celeborn’s song: The words, with one slight modification, are taken from W. B. Yeats, ‘Aedh Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven’. The full text is as follows:

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.