[The Silmarillion] Romimus

Hrudir didn't stop walking, and when he finally ran back home, he was panting like he was going to die in the next second.

"Where have you been? You came back so late, and you're so tired." Sirius frowned, handing her son a glass of water while scolding him, "You're not a child anymore, talk about it in a few years It’s time to be an adult now, how can I rest assured that I will hand over the responsibility of patriarch to you in the future with this reckless appearance? Even with the blessing of Lord Romimos..."

"Lord Romimos..." Herudil drank the water in the glass in one gulp, and finally managed to utter a few incoherent words, "My lord, did she... did she... harm Gondolin? elf?"

He looked at Sirius with pleading eyes, hoping that his mother would show a surprised expression, even if he slapped him severely, and scolded him for being "bold and presumptuous! How dare you slander the lord like this".

But the result made Hrudir despair, Sires' face slowly turned white, and then turned from white to red again.

"You...you went to see that elf, and he told you these things, didn't he?!" Sirius' voice trembled with anger, "He's so bold! If it wasn't for Lord Romimos Command, he thinks he can live here until now? It’s fine if he just leaves obediently, he knows the times, but in the end he’s not dead, and even tried to confuse you..."

"Why didn't Lord Romimos let us catch him? She said that day that she owed the elves, what did that mean?" Herudil's heart turned cold, "Is those words true? Gondolin is It fell completely because of the betrayal of Lord Romimos?"

"Shut up!" Sirius yelled sternly, "It's all because you ran out without telling me!"

"If that elf is telling the truth, then he is innocent! We are the ones who are sorry for the elf, why can't I go to see him?!"

"You still speak for that elf? He tried to shoot Lord Romimos and threatened us with you, and you just forgot so easily? You really don't remember to fight!" Seres was furious, "I Why do you have such an unfamiliar son? From tomorrow onwards, you are not allowed to go anywhere, if I find you stepping half a step out of the house, I will break your legs!"

Sires was a man of one word, and Herudil was locked in her bedroom that night.

"Whenever you realize what a disrespectful thing you've said, I'll let you out again," Sirius said sternly.

"I didn't say anything wrong. If Lord Romimos did those things back then, she should apologize to the elves!" Hrudir protested.

Sirius slammed the door shut.

A day and a night passed, and even the servants at home couldn't stand it anymore. Although many of them didn't know exactly what happened to make the patriarch so angry, they all whispered outside the door to persuade Hrudir to stop being so stubborn down.

"You know the patriarch's temper best," they said. "If you don't apologize, she can really keep you here forever. Even if it's just a confession. Anyway, it's you Mother."

Hrudir covered his ears and read a book in the room, pretending not to hear. Those people knew that they couldn’t talk to him, and gradually no one came again. They all shook their heads and sighed, saying that the mother and son had exactly the same stubborn temper.

So until the second night was halfway through, when the moon was at the middle of the month, Herudil was lying on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. He slept too much during the day, but now he didn't feel sleepy, and his thoughts were like a mess.

From the time he could remember, he was told, like everyone else, how special Romimos is. She is the protector of the Twilight Land and the spiritual leader of all of them; Compassionate to all beings, holy and inviolable.

Now someone told him that it was that noble and awe-inspiring goddess who caused the destruction of tens of thousands of elven countries?

Hrudir sighed. In a trance, he heard something outside the window. At first he thought it was the sound of the wind blowing the branches, but after a while, the sound sounded again. This time it was two obvious The sound of knocking on glass.

Hrudir sat up inexplicably, walked over and opened the window.

"Good evening." The elf leaned on the branch outside the window, with one knee bent in front of his chest and the other hanging in the air. His face was blurred in the dark night, and only his long golden hair was visible from the leaves. Glittering slightly in the moonlight leaking in between.

Hrudir almost suspected that he was dreaming.

"Why are you here?!" He exclaimed, "If you are seen by others, you will be finished! My mother will never show mercy to you, she hates you now."

"Don't worry, no one will find me unless you keep yelling like this," Glorfindel said.

Hrudir finally closed his mouth, and after a while, he lowered his voice and whispered: "What are you doing here?"

"I know that you people here have regarded Romimos as an unshakable belief for a long time." Glorfindel said after a few seconds of silence, "I think my words may irritate you. It should have been more tactful."

"...It's really not something that makes people feel comfortable." Herudil forced a smile that was uglier than crying, "but it is the truth, and I have to accept it. What makes me unacceptable is that my mother clearly Knows about those things, but she's been lying to us."

"At least this shows that Mrs. Sires also agrees that this matter is a blemish that is too embarrassing to tell. She is still able to distinguish right from wrong. If she has reached the point where she regards everything about Romimos as the truth, it will be completely disappointing. said Glorfindel.

"But what's the use of it? Even though my mother knew how appalling and terrible it was, she chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and still worshiped that person wholeheartedly." Hrudir said distraughtly, "Because she understands, As soon as we stop revering the man in the tower, we will lose that man's protection in an instant."

"Objectively speaking, I understand Lady Sires." Glorfindel said, "Without Romimos, the people of Twilight would not be able to enjoy the current peace."

"This peace is false! It's just another layer of illusion that is harder to see!" But Hrudir's reaction was very fierce, "I am not ignorant of the outside world. I know that elves and humans outside have been We are insisting on fighting against Sauron! Only when they win the victory will real peace come! Most people in the Twilight Land are just surviving in constant deceit and compromise!"

"For many people, the most important thing is to survive." Glorfindel sighed, "You are very impressive to me, but it is really difficult to persuade the patriarch Sires to change his mind. True peace That day may come eventually, but Holly County probably won't see that day."

This time, Herudil paused for a long time, and seemed to have finally made up his mind: "We have to rescue the other captured elves first."

"If you are willing to help me, that would be great, you know this place better than me." Glorfindel said, "But according to my observation, Elrond and the others should all be imprisoned in the Tower of Twilight Even if you are the patriarch's son, it's not a place you can enter if you want, right?"

"Don't talk about me, even my mother, I can't get in without the consent of the Twilight Lord." Herudil lowered his head and pondered for a moment, "But speaking of it, there is still one person who can go in and out freely... "

The next day, the servant who came to bring food to Hrudir opened the door, but found that the locked room was empty, only the windows were wide open.

At this moment, Herudil and Glorfindel had already returned to Swan Lake.

Hrudir broke off a hollow reed and blew lightly a few times. At first there was no movement around, but after a few minutes, the surface of the water slowly rippled, followed by a crash, and the bell emerged from the water. .

"Hrudir!" She shouted happily, but then she saw Glorfindel behind Hrudir, her expression suddenly became alert, "It's you again!"

Glorfindel touched his nose in embarrassment. "We meet again, ma'am."

"Who wants to see you? You lied to me to take you to see Luo Mi, but I haven't settled with you for almost killing her. How dare you come to me!" Ling Dang raised his eyebrows, "If you want to see me , forget it, I get annoyed when I see you!"

After all, Ling Dang rolled her big eyes, and was about to dive into the water again.

"Wait, Bell, don't go yet!" Herudil quickly stopped her, "You don't know, Lord Romimus..."

"What's wrong with Luo Mi?"

"She... was the one who betrayed the elves to Morgoth in the First Era, and it was because of her that Gondolin fell to Angband!"

Bell glanced at Glorfindel expressionlessly: "This elf told you?"

"That's right, but what he said is true!"

"I know." To Herudil's surprise, Bell was not surprised at all, "I know about Gondolin."

"You...you know?" Hrudir was stunned.

"Of course I know. It's not such a secret. There are many people who know about it."

"A lot of people in the Twilight Land know?!"

"Except for children like you who are less than 20 years old, basically everyone has heard of it." Ling Dang took it for granted, "What's so strange about this?"

Hrudir's voice didn't even sound like his own: "But... I never heard it from anyone, and you never told me..."

"After all, it's not a glorious thing, because most people respect Luo fans, they will spontaneously avoid suspicion." Ling Dang said.

"Are you saying that Romimus never tried to cover up or forbid others to talk about it?" Glorfindel was also a little surprised.

Ling Dang rolled her eyes at him for the third time: "I thought that since you held Luo Mi's ring, you should have had a close relationship with Luo Mi in the past, but you really don't know her at all. Luo Mi doesn't care what other people say Well, it doesn't matter to her whether you lift her up to the sky or cast her into the mud."

"Then she is not afraid that someone will disobey her and drive her down?"

"Why drive Luo Mi away? If Luo Mi came to this place first, if someone refuses to accept it, they should go."

"Forget it, if most of the people are gone, isn't she, the Twilight Lord, just dead in name?"

"It's not rare for Luo Mi to be a Twilight Lord. She'll be happy if no one recognizes her as a lord, and she won't have to stay in the same place for these people for 1000 years. But the fact is that people in Twilight cannot do without Luo Mi , if it weren't for Luo Mi's kindness, there are so many scattered human races in the Twilight Land, some of them should have been exterminated long ago!"

Glorfindel was silent for a long time, and after a while, he knelt down on one knee, his eyes fixed on the bell in the water.

"I really don't know her," he said, "so would you tell me about it? Anything."

"Is this very important to you?" Bell asked him back.

"She's really important to me...in a sense," Glorfindel said, "everything about her, good or bad, even if you don't think it's important, I want to hear about it. "

Bell played with the wet ends of his hair, and looked at Glorfindel thoughtfully, as if trying to judge how sincere he was.

Finally, she finally spoke: "Then, this starts 1000 years ago. Speaking of which, the Harles clan should indeed be the earliest human race that established contact with Luo Mi..."

About 500 years of the Second Era.

Angdil—the patriarch of the Hares family at that time, but the Hares family had gradually declined at that time. For a long time, their number was more than that of a group that was once one of the three major families of the Eden. It's a little pitiful to say the least, and what's worse is that Sauron's power showed signs of recovery for the first time after the first era, so most of the time, the humans of the Hares family hid alone in the dense forest, In order to avoid Orcs, they often migrate, but rarely interact with elves or other humans.

When Angedil met Romimos for the first time, he was chopping firewood in the forest, but unfortunately encountered a pack of wolves, and was even more unlucky to be separated from his tribe when he fled. He didn't know what happened to the others, but There were several wolves chasing after him viciously all the time. He killed one or two, but he was also bitten on the shoulder and calf. In the end, he was exhausted and his eyes were black due to the continuous bleeding. I couldn't help but saw a dark cave in front of me, and I didn't care about what would be in the cave, so I got into it with a single brain, planning to fight with my back.

The cave said whether it was deep or shallow. Angedil ran for a while, but did not reach the end, but found that there seemed to be light in the depths of the cave.

Angedil was overjoyed, he quickly braced himself up, and quickened his pace. When he finally saw the figure in the cave, the light suddenly went out without a sound, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness for a moment.

Angedil froze in place, panting violently, his heart almost broke his ribs and jumped out of his chest.

Although it was only for a moment, he saw it. He originally thought that the person in the cave should be a fierce hunter, but it was clearly a young girl.

But that was by no means an ordinary girl, even if it was just a quick glance under the halo of yellow, but Angedil dared to swear on the name of his father who had already gone to Mandos, it was probably from his birth to his death The most beautiful girl I have ever seen, she is definitely not human anymore!

The approaching low howl of the wild wolf finally managed to bring back Angedil's sanity, reminding him that there were still so many deadly ghosts chasing after him.

Oops, this is too bad!He woke up suddenly. If he had known that there was a weak woman in the cave, he would not be able to run here even if he was killed by a pack of wolves. Wasn't this just a disaster for others? !

"I'm really sorry!" He apologized ruefully, "I didn't know there were people in this cave. Now that things have happened, I can't boast much, but as long as I, Angedil, have a breath, these people will starve to death." Ghost, don't try to bypass me and hurt you!"

The girl was still silent and didn't say a word. Angedil almost wondered if the look just now was his hallucination, but he couldn't imagine that there would be such a good-looking person in the world even if he was killed. The girl should indeed be real again.

In the darkness, only the eyes of wild wolves glowed with weak green fluorescence. Angedil counted and found four or five of them. He swallowed his saliva, and calmly clenched the only weapon in his hand, the machete. He puffed up his eyes pretending to be vicious, at least he didn't lose his momentum.

But after a long confrontation, although the wolves kept whining ferociously, they didn't rush forward for a long time, as if they were afraid of something and hesitated.

After a stalemate like this for more than ten minutes, Angedil couldn't hold his breath anymore. He suddenly shouted, and suddenly raised his hatchet as if to chop. They jumped up and tore off his throat, but in the next second, their ears drooped, their tails were clamped, and they turned around and ran away in despair.

……

How could he scare away those vicious guys?This hasn't even been played yet.

Hey, it looks so powerful, but in fact, he is very cowardly, a good-for-nothing beast after all.

Angedil was complacent and extremely inflated. He frightened off five wolves by himself, and he still acted so bravely in front of the most beautiful girl in all of Middle-earth. This matter can be bragged for a lifetime.

He turned around, wanting to gracefully comfort the frightened girl behind him who was so frightened that she couldn't even speak, but it was better not to turn around. When he turned around, Angedil saw two golden girls in the dark. Eyes, glowing like a beast, no, scarier than a beast.

Angedil didn't even hum, and fell to the ground with a thump and passed out.