[The Silmarillion] Romimus

"Raise your hands higher, and move your feet faster! The strength is too small, so don't worry about me." Glorfindel was fighting Aragorn with a branch without any pressure, "When you see the target, attack directly , don’t hesitate—it’s too slow!”

He turned his wrist abruptly, swishing Aragorn's sword flying.

Aragorn gasped for breath, watched his sword fly out, and plunged into the ground with a bang, shrugged his shoulders, fell back and lay on the ground sprawled.

"Rest for 10 minutes." Glorfindel's smile was still so bright that he didn't even break a drop of sweat. "In general, your progress is still obvious, Estelle."

Aragorn feebly raised his hand and made a "thank you" gesture, his breathing slowly calmed down, and when he regained his energy, his eyes rolled away, and that little brain didn't know what he was thinking again.

"May I ask you a question, Lord Glorfindel?"

"Huh? What?"

"It's... about Romimos."

Glorfindel's smile deepened, but lost his warmth, and he said gently: "It's okay, just ask."

"Then I won't be polite... What was the relationship between you and Romimos back then?"

"Oh? Haven't you heard of it? I thought that my experience back then was enough for those boring experts and scholars to chew their tongues and publish a few meaningless articles."

"Ah, so you admit that it is your dark history?" Aragorn said, "I have indeed heard about you before, but there are many stories about your relationship with Romemos, and some people say that Rome Mimos is actually your illegitimate daughter..."

"what?!"

"Of course this is absurd. It's nonsense when you hear it. There are several other unreliable theories including that you are the adoptive father of Romemos, but she feels more than ordinary affection for you. You are shocked. Rejected her, so Romimos turned from love to hatred, and in a fit of anger..."

"Stop, stop, wait a minute." Glorfindel had to interrupt Aragorn's vivid description, "Where did you hear all these gossips, Aragorn?"

"You also know that there are many people in the palace, and they can say anything." Aragorn opened his eyes wide, and his appearance was as innocent as it could be.

"But you have the number one wise man of Gondor as your teacher. Miss Antonia's statement is obviously more reliable than those people."

"I also asked Miss Antonia, but she didn't seem to be interested in it, and her response was very cold." Aragorn said, "She said that Romimus was a spy sent by Morgoth to Gondolin to deceive and use you. broke Gondolin, and you hated her, that's all."

"She said that?" The corners of Glorfindel's mouth curled up, "Then that's more or less the case."

"But your reaction didn't look like that yesterday." Aragorn looked at Glorfindel without blinking. "If you hate Romimus so much, why do you care so much about her?"

"It's not right for you to say that, Estelle, sometimes the person in this world who cares most about you is precisely your enemy." Without waiting for Aragorn to say anything else, "The time is up, go get your sword back, Let's go on."

Three o'clock in the afternoon—

"Good afternoon, Your Highness Aragorn." Antonia came to the classroom on time and paused, "Good afternoon, Lord Glorfindel."

Glorfindel smiled, as if he didn't notice the indescribably complicated expression on Antonia's face: "Good afternoon."

Antonia sighed a little, ignored him, and turned to look at Aragorn: "Last time we said that Morgoth and Romimos planned to escape to Middle-earth..."

Melkor and Romemos left Valinor and ran towards the south of Aman incognito.

"If I remember correctly, your stronghold in Middle Continent doesn't seem to be in this direction?" Romimos asked cautiously. Ever since Melkor almost cut her neck off, she unconsciously understood when facing Melkor. fear, even if they seem to be on the same page.

"What you know, Vera wouldn't think of it?" Melkor sneered, "The vigilance in the north will definitely be strengthened several times now, but let them waste their efforts."

"So we're going in a circle?"

"No hurry." Melkor sneered, he gently stroked Romimos's cheek, but the expression on his face was extremely ferocious, "Those Valar treat us like this, if we don't reciprocate, it will be rude ? I have to prepare a big gift for them."

Romemos was a little uneasy. She was surprised that the development of the matter was getting out of her control and expectation, but out of revenge and caution, she kept silent.

Melkor took Romemos to a place called Avasha in the southernmost part of Aman Continent.Before the sun and the moon rose, Aman Continent was illuminated by the Golden and Silver Trees created by Yavanna after the earth, but Avasha was no longer within the range of the Golden and Silver Trees. It was hard to breathe.

In this dark and cold land, almost no living things exist, but the giant spider Angolian built her lair there.Angorian is also one of the gods who were seduced and fallen by Melkor during the period of the Great Music. However, she refused to obey Melkul's enslavement, and was more obsessed with her own desires. She took the shape of a spider and absorbed all her spirits. The light that could be found in Avasha, spit it out and wove it into a thick black web that even Vala's eyes could not see through, and she was always hungry, greedy for all the light to fill her stomach.

Now Melkor found Angolian and tricked her into helping him complete his revenge plan, but Romimos knew nothing about what they were discussing, because as soon as she came to Avasha, she was immediately captured by Angolian. Ann's spider web attracted attention, Romemos had never seen such a dark thing before, and she had a strong curiosity about everything she hadn't seen, so when Melkor and Angorian discussed the plan, However, Romimos was concentrating on observing the composition and structure of Angorian's spider web, and secretly collected many samples to take away for further research.

Melkor actually noticed Romimoth's small movements, but he didn't pay attention to it. In fact, he was quite speechless about the girl's insensitivity.

"You again speculate on the mind of Morgoth yourself, Miss Antonia."

"I made a well-founded guess based on my understanding of the characters." Antonia's expression remained unchanged. "Otherwise, could Morgoth have been moved by Romimos' selfless and persistent research spirit?"

"I think he just didn't take Romemos seriously." Aragorn said weakly, "Okay, please continue."

Melkor used tricks to persuade Angorian to help him, and promised to give him a generous reward, but he never intended to fulfill his promise, but Angorian believed him, and she wove a dark cloak The three of them were covered, and then they set off, because the south was always sparsely populated, so the security and defense were very weak, and they sneaked into Valinor easily.

Romimos didn't know why they came back to Valinor. She only knew that Melkor was going to take revenge on Vera, but she didn't know that Melkor's plan was to destroy the Two Sacred Trees!

There was a great feast in Manwe that day, and all the Valar and Maia and most of the Elves were assembled in the palace of Manwe to celebrate the harvest and praise the gods, and no one noticed a shadow like a cloud Flying across the ground at a fast speed, it reached the hill where the two sacred trees grew. Melkor leaped up the hill, and in Romimos' terrified eyes, pierced the two sacred trees with a black spear. The sap of the two trees gushed out like blood, and Angorion sucked them all up. Then she climbed to the wound of the Two Trees, sucked them all dry hungrily, and injected her venom into them. , causing them to wither from roots, branches to leaves, until finally they die.

Romemos opened her eyes wide and couldn't even scream. She was really annoyed with Vera, but she never thought of retaliating against them in such a way. First, she didn't have the ability and courage, and second Come on, if you still remember, the thing that Romimos loves the most is light. As early as Yavanna just created the Two Sacred Trees, Romimos was deeply amazed by it and fell in love with it immediately Brilliant gold and silver brilliance.

She watched helplessly as the Twin Sacred Trees gradually dimmed, and those rays of light quickly dissipated into the air, or were swallowed by Angorian. She stretched out her hand to catch them, but it was in vain. Romimos's hand gleamed for a moment, and it floated away through her fingers, and the greedy Angolion pounced on it and sucked it dry, almost eating Romimos' hand as well.

The light was extinguished, and complete darkness fell on Valinor.

Romimos stood still, covered in cold sweat, and Melkor's smug and crazy laughter sounded beside her, startling her.

"I know you love the trees and their light, Romimos dear," said he. "And now that I have helped you destroy them, are you satisfied?"

Romimos looked blank, not knowing what Melkor meant.

"If you leave Aman, you will be against those Valar. Unless we can overthrow their rule, we will not be able to return to Valinor, but that should be a long time later." Melkor explained "kindly" He said, "That is to say, you will not be able to see the brilliance of these two trees for a long time. In this case, it is better to destroy them altogether. If you cannot see them, no one else will be able to see them again. Wouldn't it be better?"

Romemus could not utter a word.

"This little girl is frightened by you, Melkor." Angorian sneered, "Is she your new servant? She looks as innocent as a child who still asks her mother for candy."

"She has been with those Valar for too long, and it seems that her clever little brain has rusted." Melkor also laughed, "Romimos, do you want to be free?"

Romemos hesitated for a moment: "Yes."

"Then how much are you willing to pay for it?"

"……cost?"

"A canary in a cage loses its freedom, but someone feeds it every day. The only thing it needs to do is to be entertained like a plaything. It has no dignity, but its life is safe." Milko said, "But if you If you want to fly out of the cage and gain freedom, the law of the jungle is the only rule you need to abide by. There is no right or wrong here, only strong or weak. No one will pay attention to the sweat of the loser. The winner is king, and the loser is Kou. Only the strong deserve it Desire, whatever you desire, just grab it, and if you can’t grab it, destroy it! It’s that simple. Tell me, Romimos, what are you willing to give for freedom?”

A moment of silence.

"Anything is fine." After a long time, Romimos murmured softly, "Anything is fine."

Then, Melkor broke into the fortress of Formenos, killed Finwe, the high king of the Noldor, and took three Silmarils.

"I didn't intend to kill him." Melkor sighed to Romimos. "If he avoided it like everyone else, he would not be killed. Is it my fault?"

Romemus said nothing.

She doesn't covet the Silmarillion, and she doesn't intend to hurt others. In fact, Romimos can't agree with Melkor's behavior at all, but now only Melkor can help her go to Middle-earth.As she herself said, she can give up all principles in order to escape Vera's control. Although her conscience is somewhat disturbed, Melkor's words have now become her reason to justify herself——

Winners and losers.Perhaps Finwe's death should be attributed to his lack of strength to fight Melkor.

Many things happened in Valinor afterwards, including the unrest of the Noldor and the first kin-killing of the elves, but that is not what we are going to talk about today, let us go back to Romimus.

Morgoth and Romimos escaped from the pursuit of Vera under the cover of Angorian's black net, and came to Middle Continent smoothly. According to the agreement between Morgoth and Angorian, he will give Angolian Angolian had all he could give to feed her hunger, and now he wanted to break his promise, and Angorian saw through his hopes, and stopped Morgoth, and demanded that he should fulfill his promise.

Morgoth reluctantly gave up all the gems he had plundered from the Noldor, except the three Silmarils, and when Angorion asked him for the three shining gems, Morgoth this time He refused to give her anything, and declared that the three Silmarils would belong to him forever.

The two demons turned their faces and fought. Although Morgoth was once the most powerful Ainu, when he tried to control the entire Middle-earth continent, his power also scattered into this continent. Although he successfully polluted After entering Middle-earth, his own strength was also weakened, but Angolian became extremely huge after sucking up the juice of the Two Sacred Trees, so she dared to deal with Morgoth unscrupulously.

Angorian spewed out many sticky and thick cobwebs, and tried to entangle Morgoth and strangle him. She almost succeeded, but at this moment, Morgoth did not hesitate. Romimos pushed it out and used it as a shield for himself, and thus escaped, but Romimus was caught off guard, and after a scream, he was tightly wrapped around his body by Angorion's spider web.

That was one of the experiences that Romimos least wanted to recall in the following days. The great fear seized her whole body, especially the time when Melkor grabbed her throat. She struggled hard, but her hands and feet were It was difficult to even move. The spider webs tightly wrapped around her neck and chest, making her unable to breathe at all. Every inch of her skin was excruciatingly painful, and all her bones rattled from being squeezed.

Just when Romimos' eyes were blurred and he was about to lose consciousness, a scorching wind suddenly blew, and there was only a crackling sound, like the crisp sound of a whip whipping air in the air, and Romimos went limp all over. , collapsed on the ground, and it took several seconds for her to realize that she was breathing, and at the same time, Angorian's spider web entangled her was also shattered.

Later, she realized that it was the Balrogs under Morgoth who arrived in time. They smashed Angorian's net with flaming whips, and Angorian ran away seeing the situation. Si did not return to Mandos as soon as he came to Middle-earth.

"Master, you are back." The voice of the speaker was very clear and pleasant, but there was no trace of warmth.Romemos wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and looked at the man.

It was a very handsome man, with no flaws in his appearance, his expression was haughty and indifferent, his hair was like a silk woven of broken gold, his eyes were as cold as the cold stars in the sky, his eyes moved casually, even if his face was expressionless, he was very handsome. It makes people feel charming.

When Romemos looked at the man, the man also looked at her, only frowning: "This is...?"

"Romimos, a Maier who came from Aman Continent, nothing special." Morgoth glanced at the pitiful Romimos with strangle marks on his neck, and said indifferently, "Romimos, This is my adjutant, Sauron." After thinking for a while, "You can just follow him from now on."

Sauron's eyebrows furrowed all of a sudden, apparently extremely reluctant, but he still bowed his head and responded, "Obey."

Romemos was silent for two seconds, then stood up from the ground, bent down and bowed: "Of order."