Arriving Home

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

Alatariel squeezed his hand gently. "Do not worry, they will not hang around this spot long, they are just excited. We will figure out every thing soon." She laughed lightly, due to all the chaos and excitement around her, she had forgotten she was hungry. "I think that sounds like a good idea. I am hungry myself."

[Ellroher]

Ellroher smiled at her and squeezed her hand back. "You lead the way." Ellroher followed Alatariel to what he assumed was the dinning room for the Queen. It was beautifully decorated and alread set for the two of them. Ellroher pulled out Alatariel's chair for her and then seated himself beside her. Waiters brought out trays of food for them. Ellroher took a huge peice of meat and some cooked vegetables and piled them on his plate. "I always enjoy eating after a trip. Especaly sence the food has not been dryed or salted." He laughed and gave Alatariel a misteveous smile. "Oh waiter." Ellroher said as he turned in his chair and staped his fingers. An elf steped forward and bowed. "Waiter, I'd like to see the wine selection." The elf bowed and hurryed to get him a list. Ellroher smiled evily at Altariel and said, "I do hope that the selection is better than the last few places we've ate at. It would be very embarising to have a good wine in a place so renowned for it's good taise." The waiter brought the list and handed it to Ellroher. Though not realy an expert on wines, he did know a thing or too. "Do you not have any Crystal moon?" Ellroher asked after scaning the list. The waiter looked puzzled a moment and then exclamed, "Crystal Moon? Yes! I think we might. But that is a very, very, very rich and expencive wine. Are you sure you want it with a meal as small as this?" Ellroher was acualy surprised that they did have some Crystal Moon. He had taisted it only once, a very long time ago. It was probably one of the finest and most expencive wines in Middle Earth. Ellroher smiled and said, "I think I'll save the Crystal Moon for the wedding feast. So how about a Gondoreon Red, uh, 52 I belive is good year." The waiter bowed and ran off to get the wine.

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

(Sorry it so long to post. I lost my internet connection and I had to pop open Microsoft Works Word Processor and type up whatever bits of the post I could remember before I forgot it all. Grr…damn cable.)

Alatariel leaned back into her chair and sighed happily, glad to be home and around familiar surroundings. She chucked lightly watching as Ellroher piled food onto his plate, never forgetting how much he could eat. Alatariel nibbled on a piece of fruit and rolled her eyes at the half-elf and smirked. "You need not to hope because I know it is better." She smiled at his surprised look. She knew that they had Crystal Moon around but it was rarely pulled out, only for very special occasions. She laughed lightly to herself. She hadn’t drank any Gondorian Wine for years now and she wondered if she even remembered what it taste like.

[Ellroher]

(Understandable. I can only post at the library at school.)

The waiter retuned with the Gondoreon red wine and pored a glass for Alatariel and Ellroher. Ellroher swished the dark liquid in his glass around before holding it up towards Alatariel. "To our safe journy here." He said and clinked his glass against hers. He siped at the wine and nodded aprovenly. "Not bad, not bad at all. I always try to taised a diffrent wine where ever I go." He leaned in and lowered his voise. "That way I learn about the quality of the wine and can sent my waiter running all over the place trying to find it." Ellroher laughed and then nodded his aproval to the waiter, "Good stuff. Thank you. But I don't suppose you'd have any Long-bottem leaf would you?" The waiter didn't have to go far to get it. A pouch of it was sitting over the fire place of the dinning room. "Thank you." said Ellroher as he finished his meal and drank the last of his wine. He pulled out his pipe and began stuffing the pipe leaf in it wile the waiter filled his glass. Ellroher lit his pipe and took a deep puff of it before blowing out a large smoke ring that hovered around the ceiling. Ellroher smiled and said, "Now that was a good meal. Nothing better after a good meal than a fine wine, the best pipe tobacco in the world," He looked at Alatariel and smiled, "And having the most beautifull woman in the world to enjoy it with." After a few more puffs at is pipe, Ellroher asked, "Ok, now that that's out of the way, where do we begen with our wedding plans?"

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

(Well that sucks)

Alatariel smiled and sipped her wine and smiled. She still had remembered the taste. She looked at Ellroher as he talked on about the wine. She laughed lightly and said, "You sound like you are trying to become a wine expert." She finished her last bit of food and leaned back into her chair. She rolled her eyes but still kept a smile on her face. "I think you smoke alittle too much in my opinion." Alatariel finished off her glass of wine and poured herself a second glass and sipped in lightly. She reached and held Ellroher's hand lightly. "Well, I suppose we can get one of the easier tasks out of the way and maybe work the on the guest list."

[Ellroher]

Ellroher looked at the pipe in his hand and laughed lightly. "I guess it's my human side." He said, taking another puff. "But because I'm also half elf, it doesn't affect me as much." He looked at his pipe again and reluctently put it out. "But I probably don't want to over do it." He said with a smile. Ellroher listened to Alatariel as she made up the Ranger list, adding a few of his own here and there. ((Assuming that a Ranger list is a guest list)) Though he had put his pipe out, he still chewed on the end of it from pure habbit. He always lit his when he was doing a lot of thinking. "Aside from the Ranger list, what all do we need?" asked Ellroher.

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

Alatariel smiled. "I would have thought so. I do not know as any Elf that does smoke. Your large appetite must come from your human side too. No Elf could eat that much." She looked over the list and at the corner of her eyes, watched as Ellroher chewed on the end of his pipe. She laughed quietly. His habits were strange to her. She leaned back in her chair thinking of what else they will need. "Well, I suppose we could hold the feast in the guest dinning room. It is very large and I think can hold nearly every Elf in Rivendell."

(I don't know why that word is replaced with ranger. It's starting to annoy me)

[Ellroher]

(Yea, that is anoining. I never knowtest it before.)
Ellroher blushed slightly, "I only eat when I'm hungery." He argured. Ellroher didn't ever realy think about the whole diffrence between an elf and a man. He was both, and he didn't care. He brushed the thought aside and thought about what else they would need. Ellroher leaned back in his chair and continued to chew one the end of his pipe. They seemed to have everything. A place to have the wedding, guest to attend, food for afterwards, what else did they need? A date. "What date should we set for this Alatariel?" asked Ellroher.

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

(I think it's always been like that. They did that with the word memeber too. The word was replaced with citizen, and you coudn't even type the word remember in rp cause it would come out as recitizen. At least that was changed.)

Alatariel laughed. "Well, it is still a fairly large one either way. I cannot eat half of what you can." She smirked lightly having fun just teasing him. "I have been around very few humans so I am not well aware of their habits but just being around you I think I am learning a fair amount." Alatariel lightly tapped her fingernails on the table and thought. The date, never the easy part. "I am more in for spring and summer dates for big events such as this but what do you think? Do you have anything in mind?"

[Ellroher]

Ellroher smiled at her teasing him and said, "I'm glad your learning something." He thought about a date. "I never really though about a date." He admited. "I just assumed that we'd get married when we got to Rivendell. I guess you have to wait and plan these things out." He stared at his unlit pipe and finaly disided to put it away. "Spring or summer is fine." He said as he took another sip of his wine. "I have no plans that require my attention at the moment. So, any time is good for me." Ellroher set down his glass and walked over to the balcony that overlooked the city. He leaned against the doorway with his arms crossed and just stared out towards the setting sun. "It is just as beautifull as I remembered it." He comminted quietly.

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

"I suppose we could always think about the date another day. I have done much already today anyway. I do not see a reason why we need to rush." Alatariel raised her wine glass, staring at it for moment then finished off the drink and set the empty glass down. She rose from her seat and joined Ellroher at the balcony. She gazed at the setting sun and smiled. "Ellroher, how is it that you have spent a decent amount of your life here and yet I do not think I have ever seen you around."

[Ellroher]

Ellroher hadn't realized that Alatariel had joined him on the balcony untill she spoke. Ellroher coninued to watch the sun set behind the hills and said, "I don't know. You are almost twice my age. You would have been learning, whatever it is elven girls learn at that age, wile I was still a child. I travled back and forth from Rivendell and Rohan for about the first 20 years of my life. I'd spend a year here then a year there. Then I stayed in Rivendell for several years to train as a solder. Most of my time was spent out in the woods or in the barricks, not out on the streets." He paused and finaly pulled his eyes away from the sun set to her. Ellroher smiled, she was even pretter than the setting sun. "We may have met before, but I think that I would have remebered someone as beautifull as you." He said as he wraped his arms around her and held her close to him. "It could also be that, at the time, I didn't have a lot of intrest in women. All I wanted was to train and fight. When we had a chance to go into town, I would eather stay and listen to the instructures share stories of their battles, or I would study swords and warfare. I dreamed of being a mighty warrior and commanding huge armies that were undefeatable. I would imagon fighting off hundreds of orcs by myself and comming out victorious." Ellroher stoped and looked down at Alatariel. He genatly lifted her chin up with his hand so he could look into her eyes. "But now, my only dream is to spend my life with you. I love you Alatariel." He said as he kissed her gental lips.

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

Alatariel nodded to herself. True, she was a few hundred years older but that didn't really prove anything in her opinion. She laughed lightly. "If you count playing with swords other weapons as something, then sure why not. I was not into all those sitting down things." Alatariel looked up at Ellroher for a moment then looked back out at the setting sun. "There are still a fair amount of Elf children around, a few less now then back then. I have came into contact with them all." Alatariel raised an eyebrow lightly at Ellroher. "The forest and the training barracks. Funny, I have spent a lot of time there myself. Either training or just sitting up in the trees. I would get a odd look or two at times from other soldiers, probably wondering why a maiden was at the barracks. There were times I would be up in the trees and I would see a Elven soldier or two training on the ground below. There was one that seemed to catch my attention. He appeared to be quite young was his fighting skills were poor in the beginning but as I watched he got better and better, though his choice of a fighting style was alittle odd, almost similar to yours actually. After awhile he stopped showing up, I always wondered where he went." Alatariel laughed lightly listening to Ellroher’s past dream. "That is a typical dream for any male." she said wrapping her arms around him in return. "And I love you." Alatariel kissed him back.

[Ellroher]

Ellroher pulled away and looked at Alatariel in surprise. "That was you?!" He exclamed. "I remember seeing a lovely elf maiden sitting up in a tree watching us fight. Your hair was shorter then wasn't it?" Ellroher began to laugh as the realazation hit him. "That was me, the young elf who wasn't very good." He laughed and shook his head at the memory. "I was a little clumsy when I started training, untill my grand father Elrohir showed me a few tricks that is. After that, I slowly became the best there." Ellroher blushed slightly and smiled. "I was also trying to impress that cute maiden that was watching me from the trees. I acutaly went there after training once, but you weren't there. I did find a ribon that had fallen out of you hair. I kept it as a token and always seemed to fight better when I carried it. I still have it, somewhere." Ellroher thought for a moment and then snaped his fingers, remembering. "It's in my chest back at Dunharrow. I remember looking at it when I went to get you that necklass." Ellroher just smiled as he touched the necklass that hung from her neck. It looked so lovely on her. "It seems as if we have know each other our whole lifes, just never entroduced. I always took that ribon with me when I rode to war. In Rohan, women would wear yellow ribons in their hair when their lovers rode to war. I would just imagon that that was my lady's ribon." Ellroher smiled as he kissed her agian. "And now, I have finaly found my lady."

[Eglaneth Alatáriel]

Alatariel's eyes went wide with surprise. So it was him she had been watching, then again she never really got a good look at his face, only a quick glance. If she had, then she would have known he who was right away when they met in Dunharrow. She smiled and said, "Yes, that was me and apparently it was you I had been watching." Alatariel laughed. "Indeed you were alittle on the clumsy side, it got me to giggle a few times. I would never imagine you were trying to impress me but I watched as you improved greatly and honestly, I was impressed." Alatariel reached and up touched her hair at the mentioning of the ribbon. "Well, at least I now know where it went. I had not realized it was missing until I went to remove it from my hair and found that it was not there. I never found it but now I know why." She reached for his hand and held it lightly. "I was disappointed when you had stopped showing up. I had wondered where you had gone. Even though I never really saw your face or known you," she blushed lightly with embarrassment. "I still felt some sort of connection between us." Alatariel smiled. "Funny how we have met long ago but our eyes have not. The outcome of our lives surely would have been much different." Alatariel kissed him back and said, "I always was your lady."