[The Silmarillion] Romimus

"But what's going on here?" The excitement at the beginning subsided, and Gilgalad is now more curious about some details, "Although I have a hunch that you are still alive, I can't imagine how you escaped from Sauron's grasp. How have you been these past few years? Also, how did you completely change your face just now? If you didn't take the initiative to reveal your true face, even I would hardly be able to recognize it at all. "

"It's Romimos," Glorfindel said suddenly. "You saw her, Lord Celebrimbor?"

Celebrimbor heard this and looked at him.

"Oh, may I introduce you, but perhaps you have met before?" said Gilgalad. "Telpe, this is Glorfindel, lord of the golden flower of Gondolin, who has returned from Aman to help us. .”

Celebrimbor nodded: "Although we were not familiar with it in the past, since we can recognize at a glance that this is the method of Romimos, it is not difficult to guess your identity, Lord Glorfindel. Are you Can it be seen from this ring? After all, this is a gift from Romimos once given to you."

"I wouldn't call this a gift." Glorfindel said, his eyes never turning, like a statue, "Since you know it's Romimoth's, how can you not guess it?" How dangerous is it to still have it on your hand?"

Gilgalad also frowned: "What happened, Telpe?"

"Hear me explain all this patiently, Erenian," said Celebrimbor. "I did see Lord Romimus of the Twilight Lands, but I must say that she was nothing like the rumors... "

So Celebrimbor began to tell everything after he was caught by Sauron.

However, when he finished speaking, there was no reaction on the other side. Celebrimbor looked up at them, and those people were still thinking, with subtle expressions on their faces.

"Erenian?"

"Huh? Oh." Gilgalad came to his senses and cleared his throat. "What do you think, Glorfindel?"

"I?"

"You know Romimos the best we have here," said Gilgalad, with a gesture to speak freely.

"Then I'll just say it straight." Glorfindel tightened his arms, "I don't believe it. I don't believe that Romimus would do these things that are not good for her. She must have another purpose."

Celebrimbor seemed to be taken aback, but then he said: "I don't think the Lord of the Golden Flower knows Romimos as well as he thinks, although the two of you have spent the longest time together, but it seems In the end, all you know is the person you imagined. Although I have only known Luo Mi for a few years, when it comes to understanding her, you may not be as good as me."

Glorfindel seemed to be pricked by a needle: "What did you say?!"

"Hey, are you too excited, Telpe." Gilgalad came out to save the scene in time, "Glorfindel is just expressing his personal opinion, and Romimos also admits that he is not a kind person What's more, I also think there is something hidden in it. According to what you said, the reason Romemos rescued you was to maintain a neutral relationship with Linton and avoid being disturbed? But to be honest, even if she didn't do this , we can't do anything to her, can we?"

"We may have nothing to do with her now, but who can predict what will happen in the future?" said Elrond, "Romimos is a wise man, and he will not know the truth of putting eggs in different baskets. At present The struggle between us and Mordor can be said to be mutually beneficial. Before the final outcome is clear, I am afraid that she will not completely surrender to either side, and she will not completely offend the other side. Maybe in the future there will be someone more powerful than Romimos. The mighty Maia or even Vala came to help us? The illusion of the Twilight is not absolutely unbreakable, if that time comes, because she saved Lord Celebrimbor from Sauron, we have to save her some points feelings."

"In other words, you also think that Romimos' actions this time are simply showing favor to Linton to draw a line with Mordor?" Gilgalad looked at Elrond with interest.

"I dare not make a conclusion on this." Elrond hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Who can guess what is going on in that cunning fox's head? Who dares to say that she can only do one thing? A purpose?"

"It can make you so cautious, it seems that the loss last time was really hard." Gilgalad laughed and teased him.

Elrond frowned, bit his lip and said nothing.

"Whatever her intentions are," said Glorfindel, still looking worriedly at the ring in Celebrimbor's hand, "you'd better get rid of her ring as soon as you can. Lord Celebrimbor, You probably don't know—"

"I know, Lord Glorfindel, but you don't worry too much, this ring is indeed the one that Luo Mi used to monitor you in the past, but it has been reworked, and now the chance of it being perceived is not More than one percent. I can't throw it away. Although the current situation is very good for us, as long as Sauron is not completely defeated, he can't let him find out that I am still alive. That's why Luo Mi gave the ring—her Power—give it to me, as long as I use it properly, I can use the power of the ring to change my appearance, and even hide my figure. Just like this..."

Celebrimbor put the ring back on, and for a split second the shape of the ring became one with the air, and there was nothing on his finger with the naked eye, but Celebrimbor's appearance changed markedly. Those hideous scars disappeared, and his face became handsome and smooth again.

However, Glorfindel's expression didn't ease at all: "After all, this is Romimos's thing, no one knows if there are traps or curses mixed in it."

"I believe that Luo Mi won't harm me. Take a step back, even if she really did this, I won't fail to find out. This ring was transformed by me and her. We have studied together for a long time... "

"Don't you feel familiar with such a thing, Lord Celebrimbor?" Glorfindel narrowed his eyes slightly, "I don't intend to offend, but when Sauron tricked you into making the Lord of the Rings, until the last moment, you again Have you ever discovered his sinister intentions? Now you are so sure, aren't you too confident?"

"Stop for a moment..." Gilgalad felt that the atmosphere was not right, and he seemed to be arguing again.But Elrondra held him.

"Don't try to persuade me." Elrond said blankly, grabbing a handful of raisins while grabbing a small handful of raisins. "Sooner or later, this fight will be noisy, and we can't avoid it."

"Oh." Gilgalad nodded, took two candied fruits from Elrond's hand, and meditated while eating.

After thinking for a long time, there is still no result.

"But what are they arguing about?" he asked.

Without squinting, Elrond answered with his mouth: "Romimos."

Gilgalad was full of question marks.

"Luo Mi is my friend, and I don't allow anyone to slander her needlessly in front of me." Celebrimbor frowned, "Even if it's you, Glorfindel."

"Lord Celebrimbor's generosity, his love and selflessness, I greatly admire," said Glorfindel, "but my advice is that it is better not to provoke people who should not be provoked. If I were you, You will consciously stay as far away from her as possible."

"Then I should thank you for your advice?" Celebrity obviously disapproved, "However, I have my own judgment on what kind of person Luo Mi is. You want to bring out Anata to prove that I don't know people clearly. It's up to you, but I'm stupid, and I won't make the same mistake twice. I was deceived by Sauron because I was blinded by the skills he brought because of my arrogance, but the reason why Luo Mi and I can become real It is because we cooperate with each other tacitly, we are connected with each other, and we really trust each other..."

"Don't you realize how absurd your words are? You are sincere to her, but she may not be sincere to you." Glorfindel raised his voice, "No, definitely not. She is Romimus, How can there be any sincerity?"

"Just because someone doesn't feel it, or refuses to acknowledge it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist," said Celebrimbor. "I can't ask you to forgive me, Glorfindel, even though I thought Since you are willing to come back, it is more or less because you have not completely given up hope."

"I really haven't." Glorfindel spoke bluntly, "But hope is for Middle-earth, and it shouldn't be wasted on Romimus."

"It's too difficult for you to do this, Telpe." Gilgalad interjected gently, "Romimos did save you, so I can't understand your affection for her, but after all, Glorfindel experienced it himself. For the fall of Gondolin, the enmity between Romimos and him was not easily extinguished."

"Of course it's not that I don't understand. If it were someone else, I wouldn't have said these things to him..." Celebrity paused, then turned his face away. Feelings. I originally hoped that there was a possibility of changing fate, but in the end I could only watch her go to destruction again, but there was nothing I could do."

"Why should you blame yourself for that, since she has fallen for herself and no one can save her?" Gilgalad said.

Celebrimbor heaved a long, silent sigh.

"Actually, before I left, Luo Mi asked me to bring a gift." Celebrimbor said, his voice weakened. "But now it seems that whether you want to accept it or not is up to you..."

The others looked at each other.

"Let's see what you brought back first." Gilgalad said.

"This is for you, Erenian." Celebrimbor drew the first item from the pack.

"A letter?" Gilgalad clamped the envelope between two fingers, flipped it back and forth several times, and found nothing special. On the ordinary envelope, the ordinary ink wrote the rules. Rectangular font: His Majesty Gil-Galad, the High King of the Noldor, sealed it with an ordinary wax seal without any patterns or letters.

Gilgalad tore open the envelope, pulled out the neatly folded letter paper inside and opened it, then turned it over again——

"It's blank," he said, handing the letter to Elrond beside him. "Nothing was written."

"How could it be?" Celebrimbor looked surprised.

But Elrond looked at the blank paper with an ugly expression as if recalling some bad memories.

"It's the Rune of the Moon." He said, almost gritting his teeth, "This person hasn't changed at all, and it's still the same trick after so long!"

"Well, I think Romimoth is just in case, if this letter falls into someone else's hands accidentally, it will be her trick." Celebrimbor defended Romimus.

"But what's the point of a letter that's so mysterious that even the recipient can't understand it?" Gilgalad couldn't laugh or cry.

"If it really doesn't work, put the letter in a place where the moonlight can shine, and the words will always appear in a year at the most." Celebrimbor said without confidence.

Of course, it would be a different matter if it happened to be cloudy and rainy that night...

"Let's not mention that letter for now." Celebrimbor changed the topic with a guilty conscience, "There are other things, this one is for you, Elrond."

The second object was contained in a wooden box about a foot and a third high, and Elrond opened the box.

"What is this?" Gilgalad asked, looking at the off-white sphere with great interest.

Elrond's appearance was not surprising: "It's a moon lamp, which can be used to simulate the moonlight in different seasons."

"So we can now read the letter?"

"Still not." But Elrond said, "I don't know when this letter was written, so I can't tell which day of the moonlight it should be set to. If you want to try 360 times, then I'd be happy Give you the operation method, and then please do it yourself."

Gilgalad touched his nose and fell silent.

"Did she send anything else?" Glorfindel asked.

"Oh, indeed there is one more," said Celebrimbor, and produced a third present, a white shawl of fine workmanship. "This is for Galadriel."

Although it looked like a beautiful fabric at first glance, they soon discovered the mystery. The thin lace seems to be complicated, but at a certain distance, there will be a seemingly inadvertent hole. The eyes are just bent into crescent shapes of different degrees, and from one end to the other end, it happens to be a complete change of the moon phase within a month.

"But listing the moons for each day is equivalent to saying nothing?" Gilgalad said.

"One must be distinguished from the rest," said Elrond.

So they looked back and forth at the dizzyingly detailed pattern several times, and finally found a moon that was different. Other patterns were crocheted with silver thread, but this one had a very pale gold outline. Line, to what extent?Even if the light is a little brighter, it is no different from the silver white next to it.

"Vera bless me not to deal with Romemus again." Gilgalad wiped away the physical tears from the corners of his eyes, "If I do this twice again, I will go blind no matter how good my eyesight is."

"What day's the moon turned out to be?" asked Celebrimbor.

"It is a full moon," said Elrond.

Although it is still impossible to be precise to a specific day, there are only twelve full moons in a year, and this number is barely acceptable to Elrond, but after he tuned it twelve times, the letter was still blank, and there was nothing wrong with it. Variety.

Several people looked at each other.

"Don't you mean the full moon?" said Celebrimbor.

"Maybe there is no moon rune at all, this is actually just a blank sheet of paper." Gilgalad laughed.

"Impossible!" Elrond exclaimed angrily, "I won't admit my mistake again!"

Gilgalad patted him on the shoulder to calm him down.

"Perhaps we have misunderstood her riddle," he said, asking Celebrimbor. "Has she given you anything else?"

Celebrimbor shook her head.

"No more?" Glorfindel asked.

"No," replied Celebrimbor in the affirmative.

The scene fell into silence, and Elrond stared at the veil, as if trying to kill Romimos with his eyes through it.

After a long time, Glorfindel suddenly raised his head.

"Try the Summer Solstice," he said to Elrond.

He got it right.

"Why the summer solstice?" Gilgalad asked.

"It's really quite simple. The full golden circle doesn't refer to the full moon," said Glorfindel, "but to the sun, which means the longest day of the year. Romimos had just arrived pretending to be a mute." When it came to Gondolin, when not all could understand her sign language, she sometimes used a golden circle to refer to the sun for convenience."

"So it is," said Celebrimbor.

"What? Did Lord Celebrimbor not think of it? It seems that you and Romimos are not as connected as you said..."

"Cough cough cough." Gilgalad interrupted the two of them, "Quiet, Elrond is going to read the letter."

Dear His Majesty Gilgalad:

When you read this letter, first of all, I want to congratulate you on being reunited with the one you love. It is he who is reading this letter to you at this moment; and finally, I would like to congratulate you on your success in solving the little riddle I left you—or your patience has finally paid off, and I hope you will not Annoyed with me, a little bit of a block can sometimes lead to a greater sense of satisfaction and fulfillment, and I sincerely hope we all have fun doing it.Though no matter what I say, you probably won't smile when you learn Lord Celebrimbor has anything to do with me, and I'm sorry for that, but I have no choice.

Closer to home, you must be puzzled and disturbed by now, and you must think that I have other plans for Lord Celebrimbor, that I am trying to deceive the favor of the elves, or that I am planning some other ulterior motive.I agree with your prudence, for I am not and never will be a friend of the elves, and Lord Celebrimbor may be disappointed by this, but I don't want to lie to him, and I have nothing to lie about. , No one will believe me except him.

But please don't blame him, Your Majesty, although Lord Celebrimbor is a naive idealist, and has paid a high price for his credulity, at least this time, his kindness will not bring Linton. No misfortune or misfortune, and I would never do anything to take advantage of his confidence in me.

I am a lonely and unsocial person, and I am not keen on interpersonal communication at all, but because of the long time, the people I have met can still be counted in tens of thousands. I can say that even in such a large and diverse Among the crowd, Lord Celebrimbor remains one of the purest and most devoted souls I have ever met.He is the fire of the day, if it weren't for this coincidence, a person like me would not have been his friend, but please rest assured, if our friendship existed, it was only a short episode, and now it is forever It's over, I swear I won't take the initiative to contact him again, if he is stupid and wants to contact me, please stop him.

I know you must be sneering when you read this, because I have no evidence to prove the truth of my words, and I have never mentioned the point, that's why I made such a violation to save Lord Celebrimbor. common sense.

I was not familiar with Lord Celebrimbor before. I only heard of his name and deeds. I was impressed by his talent, but this is not the reason for me to take the risk of defying Sauron.In fact, on the day Irejan was captured, I didn't even think about it, so Feng Shui took turns, and it didn't take long before I fell under your subordinates——Elrond and In the hands of Glorfindel and the others, as long as they raised their hands, I would have died by their swords on the spot.But in the end they didn't do that. Although they hated me to the bone, they still reluctantly gave up killing me to break the illusion.

It is difficult for me to judge the wisdom of their course, because if I were one of the elves, I would never make the same choice as them, abandoning my people for strangers.But as the lord of the Twilight Land, it is because of their kindness that the thousands of creatures here can continue to enjoy peace and tranquility.

I am very sorry about Erizan, but there is nothing I can do to help. I tried my best, but I can only save the last person, her lord, your relatives.May Telpe forgive me, the burdens of the living are no lighter than those of the dead.

Best of luck to the one who accepts my blessing.

Your faithful (faithful is spelled backwards),

Romemus